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:::So basically, the site has been performing poorly due to an unusually high traffic load. It could be a weak D/DoS attack of sorts, or it could just be that we are getting "too much" legitimate traffic. In any case, we are in the process of upgrading the site to use better hosting, which should improve its performance. For the next few days, I suggest you save a copy of your edits on your computer, since in the process of migration, some changes might be lost. Hopefully this will resolve the problem. | :::So basically, the site has been performing poorly due to an unusually high traffic load. It could be a weak D/DoS attack of sorts, or it could just be that we are getting "too much" legitimate traffic. In any case, we are in the process of upgrading the site to use better hosting, which should improve its performance. For the next few days, I suggest you save a copy of your edits on your computer, since in the process of migration, some changes might be lost. Hopefully this will resolve the problem. | ||
:::There has been some tinkering going on the past couple days to try to diagnose and resolve the problem, but this was in response to the 500 and 504 errors, not the cause. However, if you are getting 4xx errors, like 403, that is probably due to the repair/mitigation attempts. --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">DavidB4</font>]] <sup>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</sup> 16:07, 13 August 2020 (EDT) | :::There has been some tinkering going on the past couple days to try to diagnose and resolve the problem, but this was in response to the 500 and 504 errors, not the cause. However, if you are getting 4xx errors, like 403, that is probably due to the repair/mitigation attempts. --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">DavidB4</font>]] <sup>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</sup> 16:07, 13 August 2020 (EDT) | ||
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Revision as of 15:55, August 14, 2020
I have experienced this site go down several times with a "504 error" or a "500 error". Has anyone else experienced this and does anyone plan to fix this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by QWERTYL (talk)
- I've seen suggestions that this is the result of some kind of DDOS attack. I doubt it for two reasons: First, I don't think there are a significant number of people who consider Conservapedia to be harmful; there are an enormous number of web sites out there, many of which are disliked by some people. Second, and more importantly, the symptoms are not consistent with a DDOS attack. They suggest that an admin is tinkering with the software. One of the things that I see is a page saying that I need to log in. This is an option that the wiki software provides to administrators. Some wikis operate that way; Conservapedia does not. I suspect that the setting of that option was temporary collateral damage to some ongoing administrative work. Let's all be patient and hope that things clear up soon. SamHB (talk) 14:00, 13 August 2020 (EDT)
- So basically, the site has been performing poorly due to an unusually high traffic load. It could be a weak D/DoS attack of sorts, or it could just be that we are getting "too much" legitimate traffic. In any case, we are in the process of upgrading the site to use better hosting, which should improve its performance. For the next few days, I suggest you save a copy of your edits on your computer, since in the process of migration, some changes might be lost. Hopefully this will resolve the problem.
- There has been some tinkering going on the past couple days to try to diagnose and resolve the problem, but this was in response to the 500 and 504 errors, not the cause. However, if you are getting 4xx errors, like 403, that is probably due to the repair/mitigation attempts. --DavidB4 (TALK) 16:07, 13 August 2020 (EDT)
- Thanks for the info
