Gateway time-out Error code 504

[Agbe]

maybe the imgur issue as theymos was also looking for a solution.

That was what I was also thought of. theymos is looking for a way to solve that issue at once. I will prefer using the forum software to do that job so that things will be very easy for user to upload images. For the downtime of the forum website, this is making thrice I have experienced this. But this one is the longest one. When my friends where panicking by calling me I was telling them to calm down because I have seen it before. Definitely I know that it reopen. It was just for mean time. From the errors, my browser was good, device was good and it was only the website which is www.bitcointalk.org was having the error message. And for about three hours, the site just open. For those who have encountered it before were not shaking but for those first timers, they were like something else. We thank God for everything.

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[noormcs5]

It was down for everyone for the last few hours. I used to visit the forum once in a while. I tried a few times and it was down all the time.
We have never seen such long down time. Maybe some internal work is ongoing, maybe the imgur issue as theymos was also looking for a solution.

When I was unable to access the site, I got a bit worried and thought it could have been any issue at my end. But later i checked on https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bitcointalk.org and felt the sign of relief that it was a common issue faced by everyone (and not just me).

Also i don't think if it has anything to do with dealing with imgur images as if that was the case, theymos may have told us in advance that the forum may be down for some time for upgrades.

[NotATether]

As of the time of this post, I am still receiving intermittent 504 errors from Cloudflare here and there.

[aysg76]

Many of us has faced this in past also like not able to access the forum with different cloudfare errors but the problem was on our end but this time forum was down for everyone for more then 3 hours but now everything is normal again which is good news for all of us.We should not be too worried about it like it doesn't seems like any DDOS attack but problem with forum server so relax now and post normally.

As of the time of this post, I am still receiving intermittent 504 errors from Cloudflare here and there.

Back to normal but it seems like Cloudfare is lagging 

[Falconer]

Many of us has faced this in past also like not able to access the forum with different cloudfare errors but the problem was on our end but this time forum was down for everyone for more then 3 hours but now everything is normal again which is good news for all of us.We should not be too worried about it like it doesn't seems like any DDOS attack but problem with forum server so relax now and post normally.

It's back to normal, but what worries me is that I couldn't access the forums for more than 3 hours today. Obviously this isn't the usual, I mean attacks like this have happened in the past but it doesn't take much time to get back to normal.

We don't have any information how long it takes to recover to normal every time the bitcointalk forum goes down for more than 1 hour, it's because the admin doesn't have active social media to let us know the announcements. If that exists, I think the concern among users can be allayed. Or let me know if I missed a lot today.

[theymos]

My best guess at this point is that it was a random failure of some networking hardware. It doesn't look like any failure I've seen before, so it's difficult to diagnose. It doesn't particularly look like a DDoS or other attack, though I can't rule it out.

There won't be any downtime if/when I change anything regarding images.

[hugeblack]

This error came again, but it lasted for 20 minutes to an hour. This is the third time it has happened in less than a month

[UmerIdrees]

My best guess at this point is that it was a random failure of some networking hardware. It doesn't look like any failure I've seen before, so it's difficult to diagnose. It doesn't particularly look like a DDoS or other attack, though I can't rule it out.

There won't be any downtime if/when I change anything regarding images.

Today again the forum was down for some time.
I could not access the forum and then check through https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bitcointalk.org and found this result.

[Rikafip]

Today again the forum was down for some time.
I could not access the forum and then check through https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bitcointalk.org and found this result.

Yep, same here, I think it was down for about 15-20 minutes maybe. Or maybe it seemed to me that it was down for that long as at one point I even got worried that something serious has happened. 

[LoyceV]

it lasted for 20 minutes to an hour.

I think it was down for about 15-20 minutes maybe.

It lasted ~28.5 minutes. That's the time between post 62351319 and post 62351320.

[Rikafip]

It lasted ~28.5 minutes. That's the time between post 62351319 and [url=https://loyce.club/archive/posts/6235/62351320.html]post 62351320.

Ok thnx for clearing that out.

So in the end I didn't exaggerate about the duration of forum being offline but I thought I might have because I was checking like every few minutes.

[noormcs5]

This error came again, but it lasted for 20 minutes to an hour. This is the third time it has happened in less than a month

I wasn't online on the forum when this happened but I wonder why we are having frequent time out error messages these days.

The previous outage was of few hours and this one was about 30 minutes. I guess something is not normal  

It doesn't particularly look like a DDoS or other attack, though I can't rule it out.

It could be a DDoS attack

[hugeblack]

It lasted ~28.5 minutes. That's the time between post 62351319 and post 62351320.

I was almost accurate , in general that it is less than the previous time that lasted for more than two hours and the second that lasted for about 5 minutes (I do not think many have noticed it)

It could be a DDoS attack

I don't think it's a DDoS attack. Cloudflare works fine and did not ask me to solve captcha. its related to BTT servers.

[Majestic-milf]

 Is there nothing that can be done to stop another future occurrence? At this rate it's becoming worrisome. This one lasted close to 30 mins on my end, who knows how long the next would be? Hopefully if it's a bug or a Ddos attack or something, it can be rectified before causing more upset..

[joker_josue]

Is there nothing that can be done to stop another future occurrence? At this rate it's becoming worrisome. This one lasted close to 30 mins on my end, who knows how long the next would be? Hopefully if it's a bug or a Ddos attack or something, it can be rectified before causing more upset..

It's hard to know. Sometimes this type of problem ends up being outside the responsibility of administrators.
This month, I know that there were several instabilities at the DNS level all over the world. So it could be something related, I don't know.

I myself felt some instabilities in some sites that I manage. Instabilities that little or nothing I could solve.

Earlier this month, an IPTV service was shut down by the authorities, which was housed in a legitimate data center, which affects various legitimate websites and services across Europe. Typically, these things end up having recoveries all over the place, if only because of configuration readjustments in the data center.

But, this is all an assumption on my part, because I saw several services affected by this type of instability.

[michellee]

Is there nothing that can be done to stop another future occurrence? At this rate it's becoming worrisome. This one lasted close to 30 mins on my end, who knows how long the next would be? Hopefully if it's a bug or a Ddos attack or something, it can be rectified before causing more upset..

It's hard to stop it because if it's a DDOS, there will still be another DDOS that can take this forum offline like before. But it could be a bug that needs to be fixed soon and I'm sure the forums are still manageable as the offline time today isn't as long as before.

DDOS means that there was an external attack that caused a capacity overload and I suspect that happens to many sites out there, not just this forum. What's different is the offline time of the site because some are offline for several hours or even several days.

So no need to worry about this.

[Smartvirus]

Had some at about 06:16 UTC time this morning but, with the Host site appeared to have errored but, it didn't mean much haven't seen it happen a few times in before hand.

So, no need to worry mate, just take it to record because it would happen again in the future and with gjis experience, you would find no need to panic. You just give it time and you'll be back online.

[Sexylizzy2813]

I don't know why we're all seeing or having this issue while trying to use the forum, I think this is making if the second time in a week now (if I'm not mistaken)
Should we all be worried (because I'm damn worried)? Can this affect this Forum or affect our accounts? Can it also repeat itself again?
Mehn, to be frank with you guys I was so scared when I saw it happen again, I almost bit my tongue. Something different happened that I noticed, the duration wasn't like the first one, just some minutes like 30mins I suppose, is it that it won't pop up again? 
Still praying for it not to happen ever again.

[SmartGold01]

I don't know what the problem may be but seems this year errors code is getting much, actually I experienced this yesterday morning as well I wanting to access the forum but I couldn't due to the error code. I was like could it be the forum wants to shot down or what?  After some while it came up again. From my research on this forum, Bitcointalk is one of the largest cryptocurrency community that conveys all necessary information one needs to know about bitcoin and any altcoin related tells, so this gives me full confident that it can't just shot down without a reason.

[hugeblack]

This happened again, sometime last night (I don't know what your time will be but it's almost 12 hours from now) I was browsing without logging in.
I don't know how long it lasted, but it definitely took more than 10 minutes. I wonder why no one reported it?