Error: Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database.

[Shield]

recently I got error message while surfing the forum

error 502 and

Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.

anyone else faced this problem? everything is fine
it reminds me disk fail problem from January this year

[theymos]

I saw that there was some downtime, apparently due to the database being too busy. How long did it last?

[Shield]

I saw that there was some downtime, apparently due to the database being too busy. How long did it last?

it was not too long,lasted for 1-2 minutes only

[croato]

I had same problem few minutes a go but now is everything ok. Idk if it is connected but at same time when this error popped, Bitmixer had his sig campaign payout so maybe their bot was issue.

[OmegaStarScream]

I had the same issue and it only lasted few seconds and dissapaeared after refreshing the page couple of times .
@theymos , I assume that the database is busy because of some DDOS attack or just BadBear banning some people ? 

[Shield]

I had same problem few minutes a go but now is everything ok. Idk if it is connected but at same time when this error popped, Bitmixer had his sig campaign payout so maybe their bot was issue.

what bitmixer bot have to do with database of this forum?

forum is loading slow after this problem

[croato]

I had same problem few minutes a go but now is everything ok. Idk if it is connected but at same time when this error popped, Bitmixer had his sig campaign payout so maybe their bot was issue.

what bitmixer bot have to do with database of this forum?

forum is loading slow after this problem

Because bot go through database and collect info about campaign member posts. IDK if that is issue, just it was at same time so i thought it could be conneted.

[DiamondCardz]

I had same problem few minutes a go but now is everything ok. Idk if it is connected but at same time when this error popped, Bitmixer had his sig campaign payout so maybe their bot was issue.

what bitmixer bot have to do with database of this forum?

forum is loading slow after this problem

Because bot go through database and collect info about campaign member posts. IDK if that is issue, just it was at same time so i thought it could be conneted.

No, it's not that. I thought Bitmixer updates in a more live fashion anyway, but all bots are limited to making one request per second and if they make more requests than that they get IP banned. One request per second isn't enough to really do anything noticeable at all.