Timeouts, painfully slow loading & database errors.

[steve_v]

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	Database error
The database has encountered a problem.
Please try the following: Load the page again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser. Open the forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com home page, then try to open another page. Click the Back button to try another link.
The forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com forum technical staff have been notified of the error, though you may contact them if the problem persists.
We apologise for any inconvenience.

What else can I say.
Oh, I know: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/: Availability: 63.20 %

Edited May 7, 2016 by steve_v
Links buggered by timeouts while posting, editor being weird..

[Gaarst]

Tried to edit my modlist at this link: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/127207-the-mod-docket/#comment-2317419, but when I want to save my changes, I have this appearing:

http://i.imgur.com/Kbb7ESF.png

Also while writing this, I realised that I can't use the Link function in the editor, and images are displayed as links. And loadings are annoyingly slow. I think the forum is broken (cant find emoticons anymore, so no emoticon here).

When trying to insert a link:

http://i.imgur.com/TrH4llw.png

[Majorjim!]

I am getting database errors and it takes an age to load pages. 

 Methinks the latest community backlash has inspired someone to DDOS attack the forums. 

[Majorjim!]

My guess is the forum is experiencing a DDOS attack. Most likely caused by the current community backlash. 

[steve_v]

3 minutes ago, Majorjim said:

Methinks the latest community backlash has inspired someone to DDOS attack the forums. 

Well it's not me (yet), but I can certainly understand the motivation.

[Gaarst]

Meh, forum's back, at least loading times seem back to normal.

Edit: just checked, everything's back to normal

Edited May 7, 2016 by Gaarst

[Vanamonde]

Two threads reporting problems with the forum have been merged, since they seem to have arisen from the same cause. The good news is, it's believed to be fixed now. 

[katateochi]

4 hours ago, Majorjim said:

My guess is the forum is experiencing a DDOS attack. Most likely caused by the current community backlash. 

I really hope that it wasn't someone from the community, that would be lame. I'm going to assume it was just random net monkeys doing what they do or just a random server issue.

[KasperVld]

The forum server was incorrectly keeping log files, which had apparently grown to hundreds of gigabytes. This caused the server to run out of harddisk space and as a result it performed sub-par. Our host fixed it quite quickly

 

[steve_v]

17 minutes ago, KasperVld said:

The forum server was incorrectly keeping log files, which had apparently grown to hundreds of gigabytes.

Nice. On that, er... logrotate?