Huge site outage!

[acroman08]

I'm saying this because LoyceV mentioned that their scrappers were down as well.  Maybe they are related?

My scraper didn't miss a post when the forum was down yesterday. I did miss posts in the past when Cloudflare blocked it.
Of course this is related: if the forum is down, obviously I can't scrape it.

Well, i guess no one may have noticed but it happened again. I think if I hadn't taken this screenshot, no one would have believed me that bitcointalk was down for a sometime again a few minutes ago  

how long do you think was it down? because for me I got the error after clicking on the scam accusation board and then I waited at least 30sec-1min then I refreshed the browser and then it was fine again. I thought the error was so brief and assumed no one noticed so I didn't bother mentioning it here.

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[joker_josue]

It is normal after an incident of this type that there may be some aftershocks. Normally nothing significant, but it can happen. Sometimes it's not even related to the website directly, but rather to the propagation of DNS throughout the world. That's why no hosting company in the world guarantees 100% uptime. Normally it is 99% or 99.9%.

[virasog]

how long do you think was it down? because for me I got the error after clicking on the scam accusation board and then I waited at least 30sec-1min then I refreshed the browser and then it was fine again. I thought the error was so brief and assumed no one noticed so I didn't bother mentioning it here.

I felt the same thing, maybe it was an outage of less than a minute or so, not a big deal but since these days there are so many of them, so sometimes it gets concerning as what if the bitcointalk is again down for a few hours and especially at the time we are active on the forum.

It is normal after an incident of this type that there may be some aftershocks.

This is not an earthquake where we expect to experience the aftershocks 

[joker_josue]

It is normal after an incident of this type that there may be some aftershocks.

This is not an earthquake where we expect to experience the aftershocks 

Of course! But, after so many hours of inactivity, delays in DNS propagation may occur. So all it takes is for a connection to use a DNS path that has not yet been updated, and this problem will occur.

Please note, I am not saying that this is what happened, just that it is a possibility.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

I just got up from my busted-up chair, stretched my legs, and went for a bike ride.

I miss those old days. Now bike riding feels very risky, in-fact wife don't allow me bike LOL

That was hours ago, and *yay!* we're back.  I don't know much about cloudfare, but I thought there might be some kind of DDOS attack (and if that were to happen, some other screen would probably show up, right?).  So let's get back to the fun and games, kids.

It was not about any DDOS attack. It was something related to hosting as per Theymos.

[FatFork]

It is normal after an incident of this type that there may be some aftershocks.

This is not an earthquake where we expect to experience the aftershocks 

Of course! But, after so many hours of inactivity, delays in DNS propagation may occur. So all it takes is for a connection to use a DNS path that has not yet been updated, and this problem will occur.

Please note, I am not saying that this is what happened, just that it is a possibility.

No, I don't think that's what happened. Theymos didn't say anything about messing with DNS records, so there would be no DNS propagation delay. It was probably just some extra changes on the server that needed another restart.  The last downtime didn't last longer than a few minutes, as far as I can see, just the time it takes for all services to kick back in after the server restart.

I'm feeling disappointed now.  

i think the plan for the upgrade is because of this unknown downtime accoutred a few times in the past.

That's not the upgrade I had in mind. 

[Husna QA]

I just got another error (only a few minutes) when opening the Bitcointalk forum:

 

Is it part of the previous admin's plan to upgrade the main server?

-snip-
I'm planning on upgrading the main servers sometime in the next few months.

I just tried to test opening several sub-boards, and I felt there was an increase in speed in loading the page.
I tried to see the Diagnose performance issues via Google PageSpeed Insights. Here are the results:


https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-bitcointalk-org/zxw6hgsdx3?form_factor=mobile


https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-bitcointalk-org/zxw6hgsdx3?form_factor=desktop