Simplemachines.org dies at 4 AM everyday

[dschwab9]

Seems like every day at 4AM, simplemachines.org disapears for about 10 minutes.  You can't even connect to the server.

I know that's when Cron.Daily is normally run, so I'm wondering if there's something running that bogs the server down to the point it doesn't respond.

Anyone else that's online in the middle of the night seeing that?

[Aquilo]

yep every day!

[Skoen]

4am what time?
There are people all over the world here with different timezones.
4am what time, EST, CET, PST ?

[dschwab9]

I'm on Eastern time, and the server is too since it shows the correct time for me (the offset in my profile is at 0)

That's why I suspected cron jobs, since most linux distros run the daily cron at 4:00AM by default.

[Skoen]

It does work for me and 10.00 (CET), so probarbly only some of you having connection problems in the 'States. I'm not having problems accessing SMF at all times during the day.

[Aquilo]

im EST too and I can't access SMF around 4am.

[Jeff Lewis]

Interesting, will look into it but I know I'm not waking up at 4am to check

[Ben_S]

Have noticed it myself before but never clocked the time.

[stevej]

[[Unknown]]

ROTFL.

I've actually noticed that it liked to go down... about 1:00 am my time.. (that is 4 am...)

Strange...

-[Unknown]

[Metho]

Yep. I've noticed that too. (Because I'm always up. 3 am CST, so that coincides with your reports. The whole server goes. Yabbse.org and Simplemachines.org both crash.

[Jeff Lewis]

Makes sense since both are on the same server - the only things on the server actually.

[Jack.R.Abbit™]

Interesting, will look into it but I know I'm not waking up at 4am to check

Well then tell the Sys Admin for Lewis Media to do it.

[David]

Will take a look at cron but I bet it is some form of backup going on.

[Skoen]

That makes sense, every webhost does a backup once a day at the same time everyday.
So that means that backup might be the reason. But, weird since it only occurs in USA, here in Norway I don't experience any problems browsing SMF or YSE at that time of day.

[Jeff Lewis]

Hmm not sure if it would be a possible router issue.

As for the sys admin, I'm it 

[dschwab9]

Hmm not sure if it would be a possible router issue.

What would the router be doing at 4:00AM everyday though? 

It only lasts about 10 minutes, so anyone not seeing it is probably just not clicking anything during that time.  I noticed it was down 3 different nights at around the same time, so I made it a point to check at 4 a couple of other nights since I'm always up.  Sure enough, dead as a doornail at 4AM on the dot every night.

Interestingly, look at this traceroute I just ran:


Tracing route to simplemachines.org [216.67.249.136]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     4 ms     3 ms     3 ms  sbrouter.killearn.com [208.254.245.161]
  2     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  Loopback0.GW6.ATL1.ALTER.NET [137.39.5.201]
  3     7 ms     7 ms     8 ms  125.at-2-2-0.xl4.atl1.alter.net [152.63.82.146]
  4     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  0.so-3-1-0.xl2.atl5.alter.net [152.63.0.238]
  5     9 ms     7 ms     7 ms  pos7-0.br2.atl5.alter.net [152.63.82.193]
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Tried several times with the same result, and I know the server is up since I'm posting this.

[[Unknown]]

Yeah, my tracert's always stop one ip before too.  It's also ONLY monkey - llama works fine.

-[Unknown]

[dschwab9]

Well, if the server didn't allow ping, traceroutes would stop 1 IP before the server.  But, my traceroute is never leaving Atlanta.  Whois on the IP indicates that the server is at Pwebtech, which is in NJ 

[dschwab9]

Since I didn't have anything better to do, I sat here and clicked refresh a bunch of times at 4:00.  It stopped responding at 4:00:12 and was down for 12 minutes.  It's not a routing problem, because I could ping it the entire time.