Author Topic: Is it just me or is the server misbehaving? (Read 7616 times)

Francois · « **on:** December 19, 2015, 08:24:07 PM »

I'm just wondering if it's just on my end (probably too many hops to do) but the access to the site has been iffy at best for the last 24 hours?

To read an article or access a board I usually have to reload the page at least once... and access is b***** slow

02Pilot · « **Reply #1 on:** December 19, 2015, 10:09:39 PM »

Yep, it's been really bad. I couldn't get in at all for 24 hours from yesterday afternoon, and now every page takes two or three reload attempts before it comes up.

Indofunk · « **Reply #2 on:** December 19, 2015, 10:21:44 PM »

Not just you. I haven't been able to post or reply in a couple of days. Let's see if this post goes through...

Who's the admin? Server needs to be kicked.

Kai-san · « **Reply #3 on:** December 19, 2015, 10:36:56 PM »

It's been like this for more than 24 hours and it's just getting worse. It took me more than five attempts to get logged in.

Pete_R · « **Reply #4 on:** December 19, 2015, 10:59:54 PM »

Bad from this side of the water as well. Host seems to be in Hungary (Bluehost). Not sure where server is.

A trace finishes at box65.bluehost.com which, if you try and access it says no website exists and a DNS lookup says no DNS exists for filmwasters.com.

Something not right somewhere.

Ed's the admin for the domain.

Indofunk · « **Reply #5 on:** December 19, 2015, 11:16:04 PM »

I use Bluehost for my personal websites ( http://www.indofunksatish.com , http://www.indofunkstudios.com , http://thenevermindorchestra.com , etc) and they're fine. box65 is probably the shared server that Filmwasters resides on, so obviously no website will exist for it. I'm thinking that DNS lookup just times out, which is exactly what we see when we have to refresh a few times before getting it to appear in a browser.

Nothing that a good ol' fashioned reboot wouldn't fix

SLVR · « **Reply #6 on:** December 20, 2015, 02:14:54 AM »

yeah it's been butt. (this is all I had patience to write after waiting for 4 years and reloading 10 times to get to this page)

Sandeha Lynch · « **Reply #7 on:** December 20, 2015, 07:29:17 AM »

Must be the weather.

Francois · « **Reply #8 on:** December 20, 2015, 03:58:15 PM »

OK, thanks for confirming this.
I just sent Ed an email so we'll see if he can fix it.

mono · « **Reply #9 on:** December 20, 2015, 05:04:27 PM »

Yes, greatest problems here, too!

Francois · « **Reply #10 on:** December 20, 2015, 08:42:02 PM »

Good news, I got in touch with Ed and he's been working on it for the last few days.
Bad news, nobody seems to be able to find anything wrong with it, not even the utilities. He's going back to bluehost trying to see what can be done.

Too bad this has to break down at this time of the year... why don't things ever break on the 29th of February?

x100art · « **Reply #11 on:** December 21, 2015, 04:50:06 PM »

The last couple days it's been super slow, you have to refresh the page a couple times to load it.

charles binns · « **Reply #12 on:** December 21, 2015, 05:24:52 PM »

Quote from: mono on December 20, 2015, 05:04:27 PM

Yes, greatest problems here, too!

Not really related to the naughty server, but I clicked on your website after reading this thread and saw that you are fond of whippets.

My father, being a proud Yorkshireman, had two whippets as pets when we were children (as well as some fancy pigeons). Your lovely photos brought back some very happy memories.

Bryan · « **Reply #13 on:** December 21, 2015, 06:10:46 PM »

Quote from: charles binns on December 21, 2015, 05:24:52 PM

Quote from: mono on December 20, 2015, 05:04:27 PM
Yes, greatest problems here, too!

Not really related to the naughty server, but I clicked on your website after reading this thread and saw that you are fond of whippets.

My father, being a proud Yorkshireman, had two whippets as pets when we were children (as well as some fancy pigeons). Your lovely photos brought back some very happy memories.

I'm still having problems getting on the FW site so I went and checked out Mono's web site, very impressive. I was kind of blown away by the Harry Belafonte photos. He looks much younger than he is today, when were they taken?

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #14 on:** December 22, 2015, 01:09:14 AM »

Really sorry about these issues we've been having with the site over the last few days; it's infuriating isn't it!? Bluehost claim there's nothing wrong with the server that we're hosted on, but I can't really see how it can be anything else. Leon was possibly going to get in touch with them again today (I was in touch with them yesterday), so I'll catch up with him and see if he got anywhere. We may be able to request that they move the site to another server if they still can't find any issues...and if we still keep having the current slow response.

In better news, I just sat through the whole Satish's "Introduction to the Firebird" YouTUbe series....so this Bluehost issue has at least inadvertently enriched and informed my life.

Indofunk · « **Reply #15 on:** December 22, 2015, 02:19:27 AM »

Please have them reboot the VM that filmwasters.com is on, please. They should at least restart DNS and maybe Apache too. That's like 30ms of downtime, max (unless there's a real problem with the server, in which case they need to fix it!). Have them check on any other websites on the same VM or server (I bet it's the VM and not the server though).

Quote from: Ed Wenn on December 22, 2015, 01:09:14 AM

In better news, I just sat through the whole Satish's "Introduction to the Firebird" YouTUbe series....so this Bluehost issue has at least inadvertently enriched and informed my life.

Thanks Ed!!

ManuelL · « **Reply #16 on:** December 22, 2015, 06:42:28 AM »

Quote from: Ed Wenn on December 22, 2015, 01:09:14 AM

In better news, I just sat through the whole Satish's "Introduction to the Firebird" YouTUbe series....so this Bluehost issue has at least inadvertently enriched and informed my life.

Thanks for pointing me towards that :-)
Really found that interesting - even though I'm not a musician. My father in law is playing the trumpet. So it also gave me something to discuss with him over Christmas ;-)

mono · « **Reply #17 on:** December 22, 2015, 09:12:14 AM »

@ Charles:
< My father, being a proud Yorkshireman, had two whippets as pets when we were children (as well as some fancy pigeons). Your lovely photos brought back some very happy memories. >

Thank you!
I am glad you had a lovely youth with the whippets ;-)
We fell in love with them when we met a man with two whippets on a parking place in Scotland!
And what he told us about them made us want to have some!

@ Bryan:
< I'm still having problems getting on the FW site so I went and checked out Mono's web site, very impressive. I was kind of blown away by the Harry Belafonte photos. He looks much younger than he is today, when were they taken? >

Thank you very much, too!
Yes, you are right: They were taken 1978!
I have corrected that on my website.
I don´t know why I originally wrote 2003...
Must be the age - mine, not his ;-)

By the way: still having great problems to login!

PS: That´s what I mostly see:

500 Server Error
A misconfiguration on the server caused a hiccup. Check the server logs, fix the problem, then try again.

Terry · « **Reply #18 on:** December 22, 2015, 08:45:11 PM »

I finally got this far after repeatedly trying (since Friday). Something seriously wrong with the site. Now let's hope it doesn't crash when I try to post this!

Francois · « **Reply #19 on:** December 22, 2015, 09:06:40 PM »

Don't worry about posting, once you get there it usually works enough not to loose a post... though you sometimes have to hit the resend button a few times.

As for the 500 error, this is problematic in a way since it's just a generic code that doesn't mean much... a type of catch all bag for everything the programmers didn't feel like coding in.

02Pilot · « **Reply #20 on:** December 23, 2015, 02:26:47 PM »

Seems to have been resolved as of this morning.

charles binns · « **Reply #21 on:** December 23, 2015, 02:49:08 PM »

Working well here too.

Francois · « **Reply #22 on:** December 23, 2015, 02:54:59 PM »

Well... I haven't seen speed like that in a while!

Late Developer · « **Reply #23 on:** December 23, 2015, 03:31:13 PM »

Finally got logged in for the first time since last Friday. Seems like the server's back to normal. I tried from my iPhone, via works connection - all sorts but it just kept crashing and pumping out an internal server issue message.

Really glad to have FW back online.

Blaxton · « **Reply #24 on:** December 23, 2015, 03:58:06 PM »

It is good to have Filmwasters back. I'm guessing that someone—Ed maybe?—spent more time than anyone would want getting it to happen. Many thanks. Here's a gold medal for your effort.

jharr · « **Reply #25 on:** December 23, 2015, 03:58:37 PM »

Whew! Back to normal! Thanks Ed, Leon and whoever else sat on the phone with customer service. You are appreciated!

mono · « **Reply #26 on:** December 23, 2015, 04:33:18 PM »

Yes, it works!

Terry · « **Reply #27 on:** December 23, 2015, 04:56:49 PM »

It even works here! Many thanks to those responsible; I was having fits of shaking and drooling without my FW fix.

Mike (happyforest) · « **Reply #28 on:** December 23, 2015, 07:41:19 PM »

Quote from: Terry on December 23, 2015, 04:56:49 PM

I was having fits of shaking and drooling without my FW fix.

Me too, thanks for getting it fixed.

Mike.

Sandeha Lynch · « **Reply #29 on:** December 23, 2015, 07:48:39 PM »

Seems fasster than ver. Well done.

Francois · « **Reply #30 on:** December 23, 2015, 08:45:22 PM »

All I know is that what they did did the trick...
At the speed the old buggy server was going, it reminded me of the old days of dialup...

mono · « **Reply #31 on:** December 23, 2015, 08:48:01 PM »

Yes, it seems faster after the "hiccup"!
Thanks!

imagesfrugales · « **Reply #32 on:** December 23, 2015, 09:09:48 PM »

Right in time as a christmas gift, thanks everybody making it possible.

Adam Doe · « **Reply #33 on:** December 24, 2015, 02:25:39 AM »

Glad to see the place back up and running as it should be. Thanks to whoever kicked the server, or had it kicked. And now to celebrate with a Brown Ale and scan a couple of rolls of 120. Perhaps listen to Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody since it's that time of year.

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #34 on:** December 28, 2015, 12:47:56 AM »

I'll tell whole story the time I'm in front of a proper keyboard and not typing this on my phone, but for now lets just say I'm ecstatic that we're back & that normal service been resumed!!

Bryan · « **Reply #35 on:** December 28, 2015, 05:34:55 PM »

Is it just me or is this happening again?

Kai-san · « **Reply #36 on:** December 28, 2015, 07:07:09 PM »

It's happening again.

charles binns · « **Reply #37 on:** December 28, 2015, 07:36:26 PM »

What a shame.

Pete_R · « **Reply #38 on:** December 29, 2015, 10:11:53 AM »

Very slow for me though working. But Tapatalk just gives me Bad Gateway errors.

limr · « **Reply #39 on:** December 29, 2015, 03:58:00 PM »

And just when I finally had a picture for the weekend thread!

irv_b · « **Reply #40 on:** December 29, 2015, 06:22:57 PM »

Yep it gone back to being a PTA, even more so because we were away over xmas and I never managed to get much time on the net.

Francois · « **Reply #41 on:** December 30, 2015, 08:02:44 PM »

I think the server has become allergic to holidays!

Next predicted failures: Valentines, Easter, May day, July 1st and 4th...

Mike (happyforest) · « **Reply #42 on:** January 03, 2016, 07:42:52 PM »

Quote from: Francois on December 30, 2015, 08:02:44 PM

I think the server has become allergic to holidays!
Next predicted failures: Valentines, Easter, May day, July 1st and 4th...

Think Francis may be onto something here.

Holidays are over and I managed to get in at the first try tonight.

Mike.

tkmedia · « **Reply #43 on:** January 04, 2016, 02:52:42 AM »

pissed drunk with the hiccups during the holidays!

Late Developer · « **Reply #44 on:** January 04, 2016, 08:32:45 AM »

Great to have FW site availabvle again.

Indofunk · « **Reply #45 on:** January 05, 2016, 03:41:24 AM »

So, just out of curiosity, what was the post-mortem here? Have any steps been taken to avoid it in future?

Francois · « **Reply #46 on:** January 05, 2016, 02:07:18 PM »

I think so... The galleries for the collage are offline because they were going haywire...