These are new. But starting around 3-4 hours ago, I started receiving 503 errors when trying to access the forums (which wouldn't load at all). They'd alternate between those and simply "This page cannot be displayed". I checked again about 20 minutes ago (from my university's computers this time) and was still unable to reach the forums. Also, the main PA front page either wouldn't load as well or took upwards of a minute to display (not sure if that's related to the forums or not).
The errors seemed to have resolved themselves in the meantime (obviously or I wouldn't be posting).
We'll see how long this blog lasts
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Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
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Can anyone verify that they also saw it 3-4 hours ago? I've been checking in every 20-30 minutes and the server seems to be doing well, but I might have missed the window of problem that Aegis saw.
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
Currently DMing: None
Characters
[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
504 Gateway Time-out
nginx/0.5.11
And yeah, this has got to be due to the fact our searches are coming from the primary DB instead of the slave db (see the other thread in this forum).
Just in the last 12 minutes, we've had a search which took 3 minutes to complete, a search which took 4.9 minutes to complete, a search which took 3.5 minutes to complete, and a search which took 57 seconds to complete. Each of those could potentially lock the database from all reads and writes.
I sent an email last night to the server folks to get our slave db back online, but until it is done we either live with these periodic timeouts, or we live with no search. (and even with no search we are susceptible to timeouts, although they should be less frequent and less severe).
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
IMPORTANT FYREWULFF OPINION
I say we just nix search. I mean, we've lived without it before, I think people will manage. Plus I'd rather be able to read my current threads than be able to find stuff in old ones at the moment.
Just got a few myself, took me about 10 mins (give or take) to get back into the forums.
(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)