Is anyone having error 504?

[inPRIVACYweBELIEVE]

From last 10 20 30 minutes or so, I am having problems when exploring the site. It's keep saying....

Code:

Error 504 Ray ID: 451--------d8 • 2018-08-29 10:06:52 UTC
Gateway time-out

Seems like the website is having heavy load?

[Silent26]

I'm also having the same error and I guess everyone's experiencing the error too. Maybe Admin is up to something?

It's always showing when something's happening. Get used to it 

[inPRIVACYweBELIEVE]

I'm also having the same error and I guess everyone's experiencing the error too. Maybe Admin is up to something?

The 504 means¹ the server is down or not working properly. So, it could be something to do with admins recent update?

Done. I only did the ones that look really similar to Latin characters, and it only applies to English sections. It's done at display time, so it's retroactive.

¹

One server did not receive a timely response from another server that it was accessing while attempting to load the web page or fill another request by the browser. This usually means that the other server is down or not working properly.

ref

[Jet Cash]

It's alternating with cloudflare archive pages for me.

I guess the bounty spammers and the Twitbook posters with their bots are soaking up most of the server power. It's time they were moved onto a sidechain.

[inPRIVACYweBELIEVE]

It's alternating with cloudflare archive pages for me.

It took me several attempts before posting my original topic and the 2nd one. Not sure how may attempts it's gonna take me to post this comment.

I guess the bounty spammers and the Twitbook posters with their bots are soaking up most of the server power. It's time they were moved onto a sidechain.

I would be interested to know about the current sever configuration. Is there any way to see it publicly?

[1993jochico]

Its so annoying right now.

[hilariousandco]

Probably a ddos.

[athanz88]

It's alternating with cloudflare archive pages for me.

I guess the bounty spammers and the Twitbook posters with their bots are soaking up most of the server power. It's time they were moved onto a sidechain.

Well i got the cloudfare archive pages for me too. I hope that is the problem, because we dont want this

Probably a ddos.

to happen. It is annoying indeed, and i hope it will be solved soon and nothing happen to our beloved forum.

ps. It is a good thing if there is an explanation after this incidence.

[Joel_Jantsen]

Probably a ddos.

I don't think it's Ddos.. As Cloudflare describes it

Common causes
The most common causes include:

The origin web server does not have a valid SSL certificate installed.
The origin web server is not listening on port 443 (or other custom secure port).
The origin web server does not support or is not configured properly for SNI.
The cipher suites that Cloudflare accepts and the cipher suites that the origin server supports do not match.

Maybe some miss-configuration theymos did while setting up the local language thingy? It's still very bad for me. I can barely access the website and takes about 10-20 reloads to open a page.

[mdayonliner]

Probably a ddos.

I don't think it's Ddos.. As Cloudflare describes it

Apparently it's over 3 hours so far that we are having the same issue. I am sure it's not the ddos (on the same page as Joel_Jantsen), it's not something with the language codes update as well since those were only the HTML tags.

It could be something to do with the Homographs update. When theymos added the additional script for the homographs check, he must left a glitch on the code. I am sure the script is checking all the characters individually to see if it is a match for the slimier letter for another language.

By the way, don't blame me if I am totally wrong since I do not have any idea about the sever config and all other factors related to the server we have the forum hosted.

There is a 503 error as well which I encountered and this is not from cloudflare by the way.

[TryNinja]

I don't think it's Ddos.. As Cloudflare describes it

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Maybe some miss-configuration theymos did while setting up the local language thingy? It's still very bad for me. I can barely access the website and takes about 10-20 reloads to open a page.

More like a DDoS (or at least something along with what @mdayonliner said). According to this page, the error 502 and 504 (what I'm getting all the time) means that the back-end servers are not communicating correctly.

"2. The server at the origin is overloaded or unreachable at the time the request was made. The could be due to the server crashing, traffic spikes, or lack of connectivity to the server."

And this is not the first time this happens. The last time it was also a DDoS attack.

[The Cryptovator]

During 3 hour's (Aprrox) unable to open. Just now open forum but still too slow. Perhaps ddos attack (IMO). Although I am using high speed internet but still forum loading is very low speed. As far as I know if cloudflare detect suspicious entry they disable website for few moment.

[Elqui]

I thought im the only one experiencing this and makes me think maybe im banned. Lol. But its getting okay as of now.

[Joel_Jantsen]

And this is not the first time this happens. The last time it was also a DDoS attack.

Which last time? The most recent one was due to the query theymos had run...
 
My conclusions are based on the error codes I received during the time out. I didn't get 504, the error exactly stated Error 525: SSL handshake failed. However, I don't disagree that it also could be due to Ddos.

[morvillz7z]

It's coming back to life now.

Bots on suicide watch not being able to post/spam for couple of hours. 

[theymos]

It's a DDoS.

[hilariousandco]

DDoS ruins lives.

[mdayonliner]

I didn't get 504, the error exactly stated Error 525: SSL handshake failed.

This seems a completely different one that we all have experienced. This means something related to the SSL of the website.

It's a DDoS.

Finally we have the confirmation. Yeah seems like ddos broke my life @hilariousandco 

[sheenshane]

It's a DDoS.

Thanks on this information finally we have now a clear as a crystal information regarding the error that we encounter in a few minutes ago.

That was also in my mind that it might a DDoS attacked again, and thank you it is fixed now.

Good to see that our beloved forum is now back to normal.

[Harlot]

Weren't able to have a proper connection for 4-5 hours but as of right now it starting to look good but the problem I am having right now is even thought I don't get the Error 504 the pages of the forum seems that it takes a while to load but other than that BCT is fully accessible to me now.