Getting this message a lot yesterday and today -
QuoteAn Error Has Occurred!
The server is currently under high stress. Please try again shortly.
We are aware and are working on it. Thanks for reporting.
Just wanted to start the same topic.
I notice this too, a few days ago, and a few months ago there is lot of stress at the smf server :P
I noticed this too when I checked for "new replies".
We're too popular. ;)
:o Now it seems ok :)
It comes and goes.
The site's being DDOS attacked, I believe, by some morons.
Still ddos attacks?
******ing hackers...
Seems fine, today, though.
P'raps SleePy killed some of the hackers, ay? ;)
I actually still see the error once in a while. Not as much as before though..
This will be fixed as soon as possible. When you get the message, it truelly is under high stress. Working on reducing stress at the moment.
The server is a champ. It can take it :P
This happening really often recently.
Quote from: CoreISP on January 19, 2011, 03:07:12 AM
This will be fixed as soon as possible. When you get the message, it truelly is under high stress. Working on reducing stress at the moment.
You have to just INCREASE the cross-sectional area or REDUCE the force in that particular direction. ;) That should decrease the tensile stress.. ;D
Again ddos attacks?
Quote from: GravuTrad on January 24, 2011, 02:02:09 PM
Again ddos attacks?
It seems like it is. Im tired of "high stress" messages, blah :P
Quote from: Dzonny on January 24, 2011, 02:31:41 PM
It seems like it is. Im tired of "high stress" messages, blah :P
Me, too.
Stress again.
We will all fall into depression because of this :P
The server just saw the electricity bill... ;)
I think it's time to buy new servers. Too bad that you don't have enough money.
SleePy and his team are doing a lot of work, under the hood, at the moment.
These glitches are to be expected, unfortunately.
It's bloody frustrating, I'll agree.
But, in the end, we should be better than we've ever been. :)
Quote from: K@ on January 26, 2011, 06:34:48 AM
But, in the end, we should be better than we've ever been. :)
/me is waiting for that.
Quote from: K@ on January 26, 2011, 06:34:48 AM
SleePy and his team are doing a lot of work, under the hood, at the moment.
is this also effecting the mail server? i have not gotten email from the forum in give or take 8 hours.
I've had loads, myself.
So, one would assume not.
Although, I can imagine that it might delay them.
???
Quote from: Masterd on January 26, 2011, 06:11:20 AM
I think it's time to buy new servers. Too bad that you don't have enough money.
1- says who?
2- why do we need new servers? The ones we have are actually very good.
3- Idjit spammers and DDOS affect even good servers
Still not one email from the forum on any of the topics i am watching, any update on this? also no emails on the pms i got either.
There is no mail in the queue. So it has all been sent out.
You may want to check your spam folder to see if mail has gone there.
there is none in the spam folder I have checked it several times today.
Actually, I just noticed there may actually be a problem with our mail server.
I will look at it shortly.
And lol @ "you have to buy new servers" :P
We recently purchased new ones and they are awesome :)
Quote from: CoreISP on January 26, 2011, 01:59:15 PM
Actually, I just noticed there may actually be a problem with our mail server.
I will look at it shortly.
Thank you.
Quote from: CoreISP on January 26, 2011, 01:59:15 PM
We recently purchased new ones and they are awesome :)
It seems that they are not.
Quote from: Masterd on January 26, 2011, 02:06:01 PM
Quote from: CoreISP on January 26, 2011, 01:59:15 PM
We recently purchased new ones and they are awesome :)
It seems that they are not.
They are :)
If you dont know what you are talking about, it's best to remain silent ;)
Well, there is not way to stop somebody ddosing you, and better server wont work with it, as i know.
I hope that ddos will be stopped soon.
Quote from: CoreISP on January 26, 2011, 02:16:04 PM
If you dont know what you are talking about, it's best to remain silent ;)
Yes, I know that, but there is too much traffic here.
Masterd, you really have no idea what you are talking about and our server team does. I would suggest that you stop now, before you dig yourself any deeper.
Mail server is fixed. File system got corrupted. System booted back up happily now so you should be getting your email, although possibly delayed :)
55 emails received.
Quote from: Illori on January 26, 2011, 03:10:16 PM
55 emails received.
Awesome! Thanks for reporting :)
Whole place seems quite zippy, this evening!
Humongous slaps on the backs, guys!
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Quote from: CoreISP on January 26, 2011, 02:45:08 PM
Mail server is fixed. File system got corrupted. System booted back up happily now so you should be getting your email, although possibly delayed :)
Finally! :D
Aw, that seemed like ashame. :( I am glad to see it is better now.
Return the ddos attack... 8)
I cant belive that someone have nothing interesting to do, but to ddos such great site :P :)
Quote from: Dzonny on January 27, 2011, 03:34:31 PM
I cant belive that someone have nothing interesting to do, but to ddos such great site :P :)
Well, belive. Bad stuff happens.
I keep getting "Session verification" errors, today. :(
I have seen that around this time for a few days, today I have yet to see it though.
Odd, I can't remember the last time I had a session verification issue - yet some people have it an awful lot.
Never had it, here, before.
Maybe I did summat weird. ;)
Lots of high Stress errors today :-[
Quote from: K@ on January 25, 2011, 04:39:02 PM
The server just saw the electricity bill... ;)
Lemme guess...it was shocked? :P
Lots of forum shutdowns today.
You guys are gonna make it... regardless of the phpBB fanboys (:P)
Yep. I'm testing new and far more powerfull security software. Unfortunately during the testing and tweaking, a small wave of attacks can sneak through while the rules are resetting or settings need tweaks.
Either way, once this is fully done, the problems should be something of the past.
Thanks for hanging in there and sorry for the delay. These type of attacks are more difficult to block than normal attacks.
GO LIROY!!!
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Quote from: K@ on February 10, 2011, 02:26:10 PM
GO LIROY!!!
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Heck?
Quote from: K@ on February 10, 2011, 02:26:10 PM
GO LIROY!!!
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;D
LOL! Yes the cheerleader smileys finish it :P
The load should be reduced now. Mind you, that does not mean it is completely solved yet :P
The ol' place seems a tad quicker....
GO LIROY!!
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Quote from: CoreISP on February 10, 2011, 02:07:30 PM
Yep. I'm testing new and far more powerfull security software. Unfortunately during the testing and tweaking, a small wave of attacks can sneak through while the rules are resetting or settings need tweaks.
Either way, once this is fully done, the problems should be something of the past.
Thanks for hanging in there and sorry for the delay. These type of attacks are more difficult to block than normal attacks.
Kinda noob question, is this software server enchanted or smf enchanted ?
if SMF enchanted will we see it in core ? (Gold or RC5)
No, it is standalone server software that has nothing to do with SMF. Sorry :)
It would be nice if some of you guys that have experienced alot of trouble with this give some feedback on how the servers have been behaving for you the past days :) Has it improved? Do you no longer get those errors or at least on far fewer occasions than before? :)
It should have improved drastically.
Please let me know.
Thank you.
Got a few messages up to this morning ...
I had a few yesterday. Haven't had any today yet, but I've only been on for a bit.
Are you receiving them less frequent or not, though? :P
Question wasnt really if you didnt get them anymore at all but more wether they occur less often :)
Sorry if I was unclear on that part :)
Quote from: CoreISP on February 14, 2011, 10:57:33 AM
It would be nice if some of you guys that have experienced alot of trouble with this give some feedback on how the servers have been behaving for you the past days :) Has it improved? Do you no longer get those errors or at least on far fewer occasions than before? :)
I have not seen the error lately at all. Looks good now.
I got the error solely when I use the unread and unreadreplies now, I got a few today but its definitely less than before.
Thank you :) That's the result I am looking for. It will be improved even more but for now was looking for a status update for how it affects the daily usage with the changes made this far :) Thanks for posting your results! :)
More are still welcome :)
it was better... until just now when I've gotten the stress message when trying unread replies for the last 10 minutes.
-edit and just got a connection reset while trying to submit this.
Quote from: Kindred on February 14, 2011, 12:58:15 PM
it was better... until just now when I've gotten the stress message when trying unread replies for the last 10 minutes.
-edit and just got a connection reset while trying to submit this.
Well, that's not the case here... Had no problems at all.
Quote from: Kindred on February 14, 2011, 12:58:15 PM
it was better... until just now when I've gotten the stress message when trying unread replies for the last 10 minutes.
-edit and just got a connection reset while trying to submit this.
That was my bad, sorry :P Was working on one of the servers.
Now I'm getting the problems too :(
/me rawrs at CoreISP
it is a bit better with the server load messages not coming up, but the load time on some pages is taking a bit longer then I would expect.
Page created in 9.648 seconds with 14 queries.
Page created in 4.681 seconds with 18 queries.
Page created in 8.482 seconds with 8 queries.
Page created in 21.497 seconds with 21 queries.
Its better now i think, less messages for a past few days, but i cant say that theres not stress at all.
just got one when i hit show new reply ... but as mentioned. it's allot less now :)
I haven't encountered any error messages or long loading times today.
I dont dare to claim the server is stressless yet. Afterall, it still remains under attack. Ran a test earlyer by shutting down one of a couple defenses, the CPU load spiked instantly to a sick level. Just shows how much they are trying ;)
But, it's on the road to being properly stable again, just needs some extra tweaking :)
Just made more modifications, hope it will show even less errors :)
Thank you for all the input, it helps alot to analyze the situation!! :)
I'm noticing things worse now than previously.
Quote from: 青山 素子 on February 14, 2011, 06:05:44 PM
I'm noticing things worse now than previously.
Really? o0
All the time or like a few times in a row at a certain time? (If at certain time, do you have a time for me by any chance?)
If it is constantly, that would be really weird. There are some spikes but nothing it should get a heart attack over.
Please do let me know if, after you received errors, it improved. Judging by the current status of the servers, all is well and it should be running OK without issues. Although I do see a small spike approximately 10 minutes ago, which may have lead to a stress notice.
Previously, I was getting an occasional load warning with the theme wrapper. Lately, I've been getting the warning more often and in just basic HTML without the theme.
0.068 seconds :o
That's pretty quick, innit?
Quote from: Simple Series team on February 15, 2011, 06:52:49 AM
0.068 seconds :o
That's pretty quick, innit?
Note that we have 2 servers. At the bottom of the page, under the build time, you can see which server is used to serve the page.
Currently, this will be only .134 or .135. The server .134 is showing the most issues.
Quote from: CoreISP on February 15, 2011, 07:13:21 AM
Quote from: Simple Series team on February 15, 2011, 06:52:49 AM
0.068 seconds :o
That's pretty quick, innit?
Note that we have 2 servers. At the bottom of the page, under the build time, you can see which server is used to serve the page.
Currently, this will be only .134 or .135. The server .134 is showing the most issues.
It's at 134 now...
0.102 seconds. Still ain't bad.
Yoshi, that isn't actually all that fast. It is average, perhaps a little on the higher side of average for a setup such as ours.
Quote from: groundup on February 15, 2011, 03:08:47 PM
Yoshi, that isn't actually all that fast. It is average, perhaps a little on the higher side of average for a setup such as ours.
... Actually, neither of the forums I've ever had (and they were quite a few) actually reached that speed.
It depends on your hosting.
Quote from: Masterd on February 15, 2011, 03:24:20 PM
It depends on your hosting.
The hosting I had was quite good.
Yes, but you was probably useing shared server. This site is useing two dedicated servers.
It's probably got fark all to do with your host.
It could be loads of things.
Which servers you get routed through, how much traffic there is, that kinda thing.
Yoshi...
If you ever notice your connection's particularly slow, sometime, just open a CLI (DOS window) and enter "ipconfig /flushdns" followed by "ipconfig /renew".
Sometimes, that can make an amazing difference. ;)
K@, that has nothing to do with the "page created in". From the first couple of lines of PHP in index.php until it gets sent to the output buffer is what that is tracking. Most of the time is spent with the database, and a lot for parsebbc(), there are some other functions that are called a lot which can also make a big difference.
In most cases, the biggest difference can be achieved by tuning MySQL and turning off SMF features which you don't need.
We are going offtopic, you know?
Quote from: groundup on February 15, 2011, 03:59:24 PM
K@, that has nothing to do with the "page created in". From the first couple of lines of PHP in index.php until it gets sent to the output buffer is what that is tracking. Most of the time is spent with the database, and a lot for parsebbc(), there are some other functions that are called a lot which can also make a big difference.
In most cases, the biggest difference can be achieved by tuning MySQL and turning off SMF features which you don't need.
Surely, though, you're download speed would affect it, a bit, at least?
Not the time at the bottom - Page created in 0.07 seconds with 15 queries. - that's the physical time to create the page itself in PHP and send it back out the door.
As for the purpose of the thread. I haven't had the stress error in the last couple days and I used to get at least a couple a day for a while.
There are a load of tools that will give the actual time from request to return to completion of the rendering on your browser.
Quote from: Masterd on February 15, 2011, 03:48:48 PM
This site is useing two dedicated servers.
We actually use more than two :) But for the end that the clients visit, indeed only two servers process the http requests.
Quote from: RustyBarnacle on February 15, 2011, 04:47:01 PM
As for the purpose of the thread. I haven't had the stress error in the last couple days and I used to get at least a couple a day for a while.
Thank you for reporting :)
I have been getting them repeatedly for about the last hour. It took me over 30 minutes to get logged in. Each time I attempted, I got the "Server is under stress.." message. Once in, about one out of three topics I clicked gave the same message. It seems to have subsided in the last 10 minutes though. I can now browse and post.
That is rather odd. I dont see any possible or certain load issues with any of the servers for the past 3 hours.
Their load seems normal, not under stress o0
Odd indeed. I have been getting that a lot for the last week. It seems to come in short spells and then subsides.
I had "Temporary unavailable" messages few hours ago though.
I couldn't access the site for about 5 minutes earlier. I think about an hour ago.
I will look in to it to see how that happened then :)
Thanks for reporting!
Im glad to see that its working on fixing problems.
Keep us good work CoreISP :)
Hey i'm not a it! :P
Just kidding, I know what you meant ;)
Will do ;D
haha, sorry about it, its late night here in Serbia, so im a little sleepy :p :)
I hope that we will get less stress messages in future :)
Got it again -
Temporarily Unavailable
Due to high stress on the server the forum is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.
The times I'm online, have seemed A LOT better lately! Haven't had near as much trouble with server load than before. :)
But that said - There have still been times the forum has completely been disabled for a while.... :(
From past half hour I'm getting high server stress error, which is making it bit difficult to update the mods :P.
yeh im getting same on theme site can check approvals its that bad
Should be back to stable now :)
Quote from: K@ on February 15, 2011, 03:55:19 PM
It's probably got fark all to do with your host.
It could be loads of things.
Which servers you get routed through, how much traffic there is, that kinda thing.
Yoshi...
If you ever notice your connection's particularly slow, sometime, just open a CLI (DOS window) and enter "ipconfig /flushdns" followed by "ipconfig /renew".
Sometimes, that can make an amazing difference. ;)
If that also can fix the slowness of this laptop I would be amazingly happy xD
Gonna try that. Does it work on Vista?
It does, but make sure to run as administrator. (Right click -> Run as administrator)
Quote from: CoreISP on February 16, 2011, 11:01:20 AM
It does, but make sure to run as administrator. (Right click -> Run as administrator)
I am the super administrator so that won't be any problem :P
(restricted mom from doing stuff as she once installed loads of virusses and crap on this laptop)
If you have User Account Control enabled, you may still run in to issues on Vista and W7 :P Even as Administrator account :)
Keep in mind that clearing your dns cache will not always result in a solved problem.
It simply depends on which server you will visit when it tries to determine which IP to use :)
UAC, reads PITA, if you know what you are doing.. It annoys me to no end.
Amen... It's the first thing I disable on new PC's :P Drives me nuts.
Quote from: LexArma on February 16, 2011, 02:37:57 PM
UAC, reads PITA, if you know what you are doing.. It annoys me to no end.
User Account Control is annoying, yes... On startup it annoys me with popups about my internet stick software and security software...
I have it disabled.
Well, I love UAC. It's great on Windows 7.
Quote from: Masterd on February 17, 2011, 07:51:07 AM
Well, I love UAC. It's great on Windows 7.
No, Sorry, It's Not. UAC is teh devil. UAC is something meant for folks who really should have no right to own a computer in the first place.
But, you must admit it's better in Windows 7 than in Windows Vista.
Yes, it is a bit - No denying that.
7 is better in many other ways too. I have used all XP, Vista and 7 recently, and I still do love XP and it's simplicity - but if I had to choose between Vista and 7, I'd definitely take 7 any day of the week.
Then we have the same opinion. :)
Quote from: LexArma on February 17, 2011, 08:20:17 AM
Yes, it is a bit - No denying that.
7 is better in many other ways too. I have used all XP, Vista and 7 recently, and I still do love XP and it's simplicity - but if I had to choose between Vista and 7, I'd definitely take 7 any day of the week.
I also would -- the reason I run it in a Virtual Machine.
mom doesn't like me messing with the laptop. Gonna perform an upgrade if I was allowed.
Getting the "stress" thing a lot today...seems to hang a lot..
Quote from: crustybum on February 18, 2011, 11:05:53 AM
Getting the "stress" thing a lot today
Me, too. I will start to cry very soon if this continues.
/me cries. :'(
why? site team is doing as much a they can do to fix this, everyone are being affected by this problem... instead of complain, provided info so this can be fixed sooner...
This is still caused by DDOS attacks?
Quote from: Masterd on February 18, 2011, 11:19:43 AM
This is still caused by DDOS attacks?
Yes. They don't stop
Trying to trip them up is really the only way we can work at this. It isn't just this forum, others are starting to get targeted as well. So, hopefully we'll see if any commonalities occur and we can use that. Then the bot owner will just change their bot and we'll start all over again.
That's really bad.
Is this attack the same as the bots attempting to login using existing usernames that so many are experiencing, or is this a completely separate attack?
They seem to be related.
I suspected as much. I started experiencing log in issues and high stress notices when viewing topics and search around the same time some started reporting the attacks on their forums. I don't know why, but mine has not been hit by these bots at all. At least not yet. 8)
^
A Sysadmins I know indeed does this :P or why not just find where servers are coming from and report them or something?
If it would be that easy and would actually be a solution; it would have been done.
Returning the attack is really the most... Well, stupid (cant find a better word :P) thing to do. There is absolutely no point, a waste of bandwidth and it is illegal. "But what they are doing is illegal aswell" is unfortunatly not a valid argument. Besides, running a single attack will also cause CPU load and traffic load. And I do not own a botnet to do an actual DDoS rather than DoS.
Various of reports have already been sent out to abuse teams. The problem with this is always: shut one down, get many in return.
I was joking liroy lol...i know it's hard to fight against ddos attacks...(or with expensive material...)
I know :D
Ok folks, another security measure has been set in place to see if it will limit the attack even further. However, the reason I only set it up in there now and not immediately is because I have my concerns about how it functions towards normal visitors such as yourself :) With the settings I put in there it *should* not cause issues, and my tests turn out it wont, but as always on heavily visited websites: you can never be 100% sure if it works towards all the users ;) My tests say they do, practice will sometimes turn out different. This far: all seems to be going well as expected.
So if anyone experiences on several occasions that your connection is actually refused (so you get a connection error instead of the "High Stress" error) rather than getting an error page from our server: please let me know immediately so I may investigate if that was due to these new settings :)
If I am right, and I shamelessly do believe I am, nobody will notice this new security setting except for the attackers. Please do report it though if it becomes agressive to you :)
Reports on the stress errors are still more than welcome as well! :)
Do you still experience them? Do you experience them even less than before? :) Or, which is ofcourse something I can never rule out, did it turn worse for you?
Thanks in advance for your reports. They are very helpfull as thelp help me actively see when something goes wrong: where it goes wrong :)
Thanks!
- Liroy
Thanks for update :)
Its all fine now, and i have not experience stress today though. :)
me too, I haven't had any issues since yesterday 8)
Thank you both for the update!
That's the desired effect :D
Same here. Smooth operation with no noticeable issues in 2 days for me.
Everything is alright now! :D
I just saw this error. >:(
QuoteTemporarily Unavailable
Due to high stress on the server the forum is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.
Quote from: Masterd on February 24, 2011, 04:50:39 AM
I just saw this error. >:(
QuoteTemporarily Unavailable
Due to high stress on the server the forum is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.
I did not and I do not now...
Yep, stress error here 2
Noted, think I know what caused that. Will look in to it :)
Thank you!
Place is like a slug, today.
So I have noticed. That does not seem to be caused by our servers though. Their load is fine and when I try to access the site from US rather than EU it seems to be normal.
It works normal for me again from Europe since the past 30 minutes though.
Well, I'm in England and it's terrible.
I'm gonna have to give up, for now.
I tried pinging the site and it totally times-out.
A tracert times-out on fourteen of the twenty-eight hops (I gave up, after that).
So, it's looking like there's some serious sever outage, somewhere, rather than it being a problem with the site.
OK... EMBARRASSMENT!!!!
Odd, though.
I thought "Let's reboot the router and see what happens".
Er... Speed's picked-up a lot.
Odd, though, coz other sites were OK.
Hehe, good to hear ;D
On a sidenote; you can never ping our servers :)
Ping is dropped ;)
I dare say that's just a coinsidence, rebooting your router you were probably given a new route that works better, but there is still a route that doesn't work as well.
Oh, I tried ipconfig and all that stuff.
That should've rerouted me.
I never got as far as the servers, here, man.
Still, however and whyever, it seems luvverly, now!
I'll allow myself a small "WoOt!". :)
I have been getting this error quite often over the past few weeks but for the last few days everything has seemed fine on my end. No connection issues at all.
QuoteTemporarily Unavailable
Due to high stress on the server the forum is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.
;)
I just got this message, first time so far today.
QuoteTemporarily Unavailable
Due to high stress on the server the forum is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.
posting this from "Page served by: 10.0.100.134"
It's 135 here now.
Quote from: Yoshi2889 on February 24, 2011, 11:57:59 AM
It's 135 here now.
That's the good one. That server is really fast. ;)
serv 134.
got:
QuoteAn Error Has Occurred!
The server is currently under high stress. Please try again shortly.
And after refreshing got:
QuoteTemporarily Unavailable
Due to high stress on the server the forum is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.
134 again :(
Being roaming here from past 4 hrs and haven't encountered a single error yet. Nice work guys.
*Replied this to give some positive feedback as well.
www1 (134) seems to be doing okay for me.
134 is just fine for me right now.
Quote from: Arantor on February 24, 2011, 12:17:52 PM
134 is just fine for me right now.
Not really for me.
And now it is 135 again ???
You will keep switching between .134 and .135, which is normal :)
It attempts to distribute the load.
The reason why most people only get high stress errors on .134 is because that server is getting most of the crappy requests. That's due to the setup. Because of that, it will also stress quicker as it has to handle more. I dont think .135 has showed high stress errors for months now.
I did notice .134 has showed some issues today, the most recent 5 minutes ago :P, and i'm busy analyzing it to see which of the new settings needs a bit more tweaking to prevent issues.
I've just had the soft warning on unread, that was on 134, and both 134 and 135 seem kind of sluggish.
Quote from: Arantor on February 24, 2011, 02:19:36 PM
I've just had the soft warning on unread, that was on 134, and both 134 and 135 seem kind of sluggish.
135 works fine for me.
OK... oddity.
Couldn't even got on the site.
All other sites were OK.
Rebooted router.
All's good.
This is more than a coincidence, surely?
I couldn't get on either. I see the page created time being in 0.2**, but I still couldn't get on. :(
I will check both your IP's to see if anything happened, thanks for reporting :)
Could you please tell me:
- What time it was at?
- Did it happen immedieately the first time you tried to get on or where you able to browse the site just before it happened?
Thanks.
On a sidenote, one of our webservers, the .134 one, is having some issues at the moment.
Working on resolving them.
- Liroy
The .135 one was fine on my iPod but is pretty slow on the laptop of ours...
Possible, as it got more requests than usual. .134 is now back online and happily running :)
Enjoy!
Quote from: CoreISP on February 25, 2011, 10:12:19 AM
I will check both your IP's to see if anything happened, thanks for reporting :)
Could you please tell me:
- What time it was at?
- Did it happen immediately the first time you tried to get on or where you able to browse the site just before it happened?
It would've been about 11:30, my time.
It was immediate.
All browsers.
All machines.
Just got the high stress message again while trying to view my unread replies :(
Server #134
Mine was around 12:00 GMT. (A few mins before I posted the message.)
It would be stuck on "loading..." via FF for minutes... I was accessing it via the uni comp.. so my IP would have been diff at that time. I accessed it for the first time when this happened.
I had one literally just now, at the white screen minimalist warning.
I got a couple right now, 9AM PST, while posting on server 134.
just got error on 134.
QuoteAn Error Has Occurred!
The server is currently under high stress. Please try again shortly.
134 is just having an aneurysm right now.
135 is nice and fast no problems. :)
I got this page successfully on 134.
Had to reroute the booter, again, today. ;)
Weird.
Quote from: K@ on February 26, 2011, 07:32:52 AM
Had to reroute the booter, again, today. ;)
Weird.
lol It needs a TomTom system :P
Dunno. ;)
Every other site's OK, without me having to do that.
@Flamer:
Thanks for that report, that's a issue with the firewall delivering false positives. Going to fix it :)
Thanks for all the reports! Time to make more changes.
I've not even been able to get in, until now.
I wonder if these script-kiddies will be satisfied, when the net closes down, due to their stupidity?
Hi kat,
I scanned your IP and there have not been any blocks or limitations for you.
Next to that the servers have not been down in such a way that you could totally not reach them. All that could have happened is the high stress error, but not a total failure when trying to reach the systems.
I'm afraid it was a local issue at your side :(
Four different browsers, three different computers, one of which was in the local pub.
Weirdness.
Really no idea. If it didnt work at the pub either: it can most certainly not be the server that has blocked you. However, as it didnt work on all those places, maybe they use the same provider and they had issues?
If nobody was able to reach SMF, I think we would have noticed far more complaints o0
That and I do not see anything that would indicate a interruption in the service. Weirdness indeed.
Must be a server on my route, I s'pose.
I didn't think to try a tracert...
I thought of using a proxy, but they're blocked, so I didn't bother, with that.
I just received a high stress error on .134. I refreshed the page a couple of seconds later and it was fine, but i'm still reporting that I saw it.
May be system is over loaded or may be it is not acting properly the way it should do.
:-\
There could be any reason..
I don't know much about it.
Quote from: Kenniee on March 01, 2011, 02:44:56 AM
May be system is over loaded or may be it is not acting properly the way it should do.
:-\
There could be any reason..
I don't know much about it.
Read the entire thread and you know why ;)
Had to reboot the router, again, today.
Only for this site, again.
(https://www.simplemachines.org/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F_Qy--F4VDWXk%2FTTL4eWXzyOI%2FAAAAAAAACvw%2FLsAzymnl5vI%2FS820-R%2Fbg%252Bheader.jpg&hash=cbb3255b2967b5b3986234619a367ef1ce54566b)
I've seen both the stress errors multiple times today... :(
Same here.
I haven't seen that error for few days.
Quote from: Masterd on March 01, 2011, 01:02:03 PM
I haven't seen that error for few days.
Neither do I.
How has this been behaving for all of you in the past 7 days?
Thank you for your feedback.
not too bad till about 10 minutes ago i got a few high stress pages load.
Nothing that I can remember.
The forum is working pretty great for me, yesterday the mod site was bit lagging on my side.
Edit - From past 15 mins I'm trying to upload a new mod and 3 images associated with it(tried to upload all 4 entities one by one also), but I get a blank page only at the end and nothing is uploaded.
At last it got uploaded somehow :P.
Quote from: Joker™ on March 09, 2011, 12:25:34 PM
Edit - From past 15 mins I'm trying to upload a new mod and 3 images associated with it(tried to upload all 4 entities one by one also), but I get a blank page only at the end and nothing is uploaded.
At last it got uploaded somehow :P.
That's happening to me almost all the time.
hem, now the access are faster than couple days ago, nice ;D
Here too, no stress reported for a while.. :)
Quote from: Dzonny on March 15, 2011, 06:36:53 AM
Here too, no stress reported for a while.. :)
Same here. :)
Keep getting session errors, though.
Timeouts and the like. :(
I haven't had any problems the last day or so.
Had the problem last night but no problems today.
Good to hear. :)
In a few days time, the errors should permanently be history ;)
Quote from: CoreISP on March 16, 2011, 09:20:51 AM
Good to hear. :)
In a few days time, the errors should permanently be history ;)
New server? :D
Quote from: dWhite on March 16, 2011, 09:38:03 AM
Quote from: CoreISP on March 16, 2011, 09:20:51 AM
Good to hear. :)
In a few days time, the errors should permanently be history ;)
New server? :D
I don't think so, this server's a beast.
No, we have very good servers. The traffic we are receiving in the form of attacks is sickening though. When the firewall and modifications made to the systems are shutdown the servers get overloaded in a matter of seconds...
We have plenty of servers and a couple of more powerful servers to host our vmware environment.
We are just changing some software, details will be given out later.
Damn attackers persist. I am sure it is getting old on you. ;)
I have seen no issues myself for about a week. I may be here at the best times, but all has been good on my end.
I had some issues yesterday. Site was very slow. I reloaded it more than 5 times.
Quote from: Masterd on March 16, 2011, 05:53:31 PM
I had some issues yesterday. Site was very slow. I reloaded it more than 5 times.
Could be your internet connection. I have not seen real performance issues myself nor has the server reported any major issues that would slow the site down noticeable. Trust me when I say if there would have been such a issue: I would have got a notification immediately. :)
Well, every other site loaded just fine at that time.
Doesnt matter, the route from your ISP to the network we are in could have caused a issue at the time while it may have been good to others.
Like I said, I have not seen any issues nor has anyone else reported them as you can see in the posts above yours :) I will not rule out the chance there *could* have been something up, but at this moment it strongly looks more like a temporary issue at your side than on our side :)
I had some issues with my ISP before, so, probably, it was, as you said, related with my connection.
Quote from: CoreISP on March 16, 2011, 09:47:54 AM
No, we have very good servers. The traffic we are receiving in the form of attacks is sickening though. When the firewall and modifications made to the systems are shutdown the servers get overloaded in a matter of seconds...
We have plenty of servers and a couple of more powerful servers to host our vmware environment.
We are just changing some software, details will be given out later.
Just goes to show how jealous they are of how popular SMF really is. They are jealous, so they attack the servers.
SMF <3 :)
Just wanted to post an update and say that it's been working very well for me with no errors for days
I had the stress error once a few days ago, didn't remember to make a note of it so can't say exactly when in was, but since then it's been smooth sailing and all seems to be working ok.
Quote from: LexArma on March 17, 2011, 12:55:52 AM
I had the stress error once a few days ago, didn't remember to make a note of it so can't say exactly when in was, but since then it's been smooth sailing and all seems to be working ok.
+1
Been getting the odd "Session expired" thing, though, over the last few days.
Most odd.
Maybe sessions don't likeyou :P
Quote from: live627 on March 18, 2011, 06:39:57 PM
Maybe sessions don't likeyou :P
Then they absolutely hate me :P
Been getting the Session Expired messages when posting on ALL forums T_T
No matter what browser or OS I use.
Are you blocking cookies? Usually this means you aren't passing a cookie with your session ID back to the website.
Quote from: 青山 素子 on March 18, 2011, 07:20:23 PM
Are you blocking cookies? Usually this means you aren't passing a cookie with your session ID back to the website.
Nope.
It doesn't matter me really since I just have to click one more button :P
(doesn't happen on my iPod Touch 4G btw)
Forum lagging a lot for me on server 134 from past half hour. Even while trying to open home page of forum I'm getting "Temporary unavailable" page.
Quote from: Joker™ on March 19, 2011, 12:46:34 PM
Forum lagging a lot for me on server 134 from past half hour. Even while trying to open home page of forum I'm getting "Temporary unavailable" page.
Safari gets in but loading images properly takes loads of time.
Just had a few moments of the Temporarily Unavailable page from 134.
It went off for several minutes.
Life's a ****** and then you marry one. ;)
I got one stress error yesterday.
I got a stress fracture.... oh wait...
So far it seems to be OK but I note that I'm pretty consistently on 135 at this point.
Everything is alright for me for the last few days.
I had a couple of really slow periods on 134 last night.
I just got one error.
Errors here too.
Zero problems here ! Good work!
Hang in there regarding the errors. I can make more changes to the system but I dont feel comfortable applying them at this time as they are really agressive measures. Some of the measures I have configured now already made me slightly uncomfortable when starting them up as, in theory, it could affect regular users. The settings currently allow pretty much a normal functioning of the servers for everyone, except for the *bleep*'ers that attack us, and I like to keep it that way.
The servers are stable now most of the time since the modifications have been made and that is the best I can do for now without taking risks of affecting real visitors, our members. I dont think anyone here wants to get banned from our server while not doing anything wrong :P
The several defense measures I have put in place on the servers do their job better than I had hoped for, when I undo them the server dies within a few seconds under the pressure. But: software measures only go to a certain extent and cannot be extended endlessly without affecting the general performance. That in itself would counter what I'm trying to do. If the software that tries to stop the stress errors start causing bigger problems for our users, the desired effect (a stable environment) is set back to null. That's not what I want, and I doubt anyone wants that :P It would be like attacking ourselves. Hence, i'm not going to make the system security even more agressive at this point. If anyone is wondering: No, the type of attacks we are receiving cannot be properly blocked by the hardware firewall on our switch.
We, and especially SleePy on certain fields, are working very hard on a completely new approach (details will follow later when everything is ready) regarding how our servers function. It should reduce loads and effective attacks a lot without much interference from security measures and extra security software.
So in any case, please hang in there and rest assured we are working on it :)
The stress errors once in a while at this moment cant be completely avoided due to the nature of the attacks we are receiving and how far I'm willing to go with our servers.
Youre doing great job guys, keep us good work :)
I can just imagine how hard it is to maintain such complex and big system, but it's obvious that youre doing your best.
Great job men!
Really great job, team! :D
smf needs a wife to "help" out with all this stress
Actually, the stress went up when we found a girl for the server. It went fine for the first few weeks when they were like... Getting to know each other very well. However, later it got annoyed with having to explain so much about the technical stuff, constant requests for attention and her desire for lots of chocolate once a month. That and apparently the chain was too long as she managed to get out of the kitchen in to the living room, which caused annoyances and high tension when there was a football match... Overall, it was not much of a success :( We tried though.
Just kidding :P
(Pls dont shoot me ladies! I'm sorry, i'm sorry :$)
Serious question, if I may?
At certain times, the ol' place runs like a slug on dope.
Opera hangs. Firefox hangs. IE (Spit!) hangs.
K-Meleon doesn't.
OK, it slows, a bit.
But, it always gets there.
How come?
K-Meleon is a bit less resource intensive than the others... Perhaps if all the regular browsers hang and a lightweight thing does not, one might wonder if you have plenty of resources available in your PC? Enough memory, for example. Also do note that if you have other websites open with flash or java, it may eat quite alot of memory and CPU.
Can't see that making a difference. Would be worth shoving a networking sniffer on it and logging the packets themselves to see what's different.
Apart from my browser, nothing else is open. No other sites open, either.
4 gig of RAM, 60% free.
Virtual memory in use: Zero
Pagefile in use: Zero.
2.8 gig dual-core CPU.
Quote from: K@ on March 30, 2011, 05:22:14 PM
Apart from my browser, nothing else is open. No other sites open, either.
4 gig of RAM, 60% free.
Virtual memory in use: Zero
Pagefile in use: Zero.
2.8 gig dual-core CPU.
Look in your system tray -- probably something else's eating up stuff.
This thread is locked for now.
Please go into the new server setup topic if there are any issues.
The high stress errors should, and probably will not, occur again.
Thank you :)