Downtime and Features - Read first

Post by **Ryoko** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:21 pm

Downtime / Chat / Screenshots / Profile / Search

The server was under constant load. Most likely being attacked.

We don't know for sure yet.

Anything that uses a high ammount of queries has been 'unhooked'.

Unfortunately, 'profile' being offline means you can't register.

But there are many sites sharing the server, and I had to take some precautions.

Please wait it out till the higher powers figgure out exactly whats happening.

Happy posting.

PsYch008 · Post by **PsYch008** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:49 pm

i was just about to post on if anyone else was having problems gettin to their profile... but good thing i knows how ta reeeed and find previous posts.

Shimohime · Post by **Shimohime** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:02 pm

Ya, I was pretty worried about why I couldn't access profile. Anyways, I hope the site gets fixed soon ^^.

Zhen · Post by **Zhen** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:53 am

In the meantime, use Google to do a site-search if you guys need to find a certain topic or whatever.

Type in: site:silkroadforums.com (and search term after).

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3As ... s.com+cool

Megalomaniac · Post by **Megalomaniac** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:07 pm

lol at least when someone posts a thread for the 55555th time no one can tell him to use search!

bakaro · Post by **bakaro** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:57 pm

The downtime is back :roll:

Post by **Ryoko** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:06 pm

Some features offline again.

We were maxing the mysql connections and the server was under incredible load.

Why this is happening is still unclear.

But we are working on it with the other site owners.

Megalomaniac · Post by **Megalomaniac** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:07 am

I dunno if it only happens to me but the site doesnt work for me alot of times.
NOTHING loads.
Sometimes it goes for hours.

JackB4u3r · Post by **JackB4u3r** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:06 am

Yea, that happens to me sometimes too. But thats maybe because of all these things that are happening on the server are making some changes, in the loading time... just a theory

Post by **Ryoko** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:34 pm

Megalomaniac wrote:I dunno if it only happens to me but the site doesnt work for me alot of times.
NOTHING loads.
Sometimes it goes for hours.

Thats exactly the problem.

And we think we figgured it out.

Google doing a deep crawl on both SRF and TH.NET at the same time this week sent MySQL memory usage and connections through the roof. Then the statistics software for the forum likes to run at the same time -.- then the email handler........ etc

When the site doesnt load for hours, its because the server is under like 90% load and crunching.

We've reduced the max connections, added RAM, and tweaked the stat settings.

We'll see if the problem goes away now. Can't afford to have the site down.

Megalomaniac · Post by **Megalomaniac** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:57 pm

I hope