Author Topic: site problems? (Read 17228 times)

Boz86 · « **on:** July 25, 2014, 06:59:45 AM »

Just wondering if anyone else is having this problem?
Over the past few days the site gives me a lot of 503 errors and the message
"Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."

No other problems with other sites, only this one.

Thanks,

usmarine1975 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 25, 2014, 07:16:34 AM »

I have been getting a lot of the same problem.

rocksinmyhead · « **Reply #2 on:** July 25, 2014, 07:23:41 AM »

me too.

MMM is just too popular :)

LennStar · « **Reply #3 on:** July 25, 2014, 08:05:39 AM »

the same here.

Rural · « **Reply #4 on:** July 25, 2014, 08:05:58 AM »

Problems more often than not for the last week.

deborah · « **Reply #5 on:** July 25, 2014, 03:46:40 PM »

This has always seems to happen once a day at about the same time. I assumed that since I was in Australia, they actually take the site down once a day at that time.

Beric01 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 25, 2014, 07:12:24 PM »

Quote from: deborah on July 25, 2014, 03:46:40 PM

This has always seems to happen once a day at about the same time. I assumed that since I was in Australia, they actually take the site down once a day at that time.

This happens to me a lot more than once a day. Lately, once every couple of hours.

Boz86 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 26, 2014, 06:23:34 AM »

Ironically I didn't think this posted because I got booted in the middle of it.

Michael792 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 26, 2014, 07:21:27 AM »

Yeah, I've been having it a lot too.

Beric01 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 29, 2014, 07:11:42 PM »

Just got back from yet another site issue.

chops · « **Reply #10 on:** August 04, 2014, 09:33:09 AM »

I was getting a "connection denied" error code earlier this morning between 9-10am.

LennStar · « **Reply #11 on:** August 04, 2014, 10:04:15 AM »

I couldnt reach the site for more then day.

Rural · « **Reply #12 on:** August 04, 2014, 12:56:26 PM »

Yep, the whole server was down according to isitdownrightnow.com.

FIreDrill · « **Reply #13 on:** August 04, 2014, 01:04:49 PM »

I was wondering what was going on Sunday...

Rural · « **Reply #14 on:** August 04, 2014, 03:41:49 PM »

Quote from: StudentStacher on August 04, 2014, 01:04:49 PM

I was wondering what was going on Sunday...

It must be the site's incredible popularity, right?

marty998 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 04, 2014, 03:57:54 PM »

Quote from: Rural on August 04, 2014, 03:41:49 PM

Quote from: StudentStacher on August 04, 2014, 01:04:49 PM
I was wondering what was going on Sunday...

It must be the site's incredible popularity, right?

No it was all the angry wifeys writing in agreement at the same time that MMM really is ruining their marriages.

Server overloaded at the sight of it.

aj_yooper · « **Reply #16 on:** August 04, 2014, 04:02:55 PM »

Yup, server issues. A gift of time for me.

FIreDrill · « **Reply #17 on:** August 04, 2014, 05:03:48 PM »

Quote from: marty998 on August 04, 2014, 03:57:54 PM

Quote from: Rural on August 04, 2014, 03:41:49 PM
Quote from: StudentStacher on August 04, 2014, 01:04:49 PM
I was wondering what was going on Sunday...

It must be the site's incredible popularity, right?

No it was all the angry wifeys writing in agreement at the same time that MMM really is ruining their marriages.

Server overloaded at the sight of it.

Haha!

Scandium · « **Reply #18 on:** September 19, 2014, 06:36:27 AM »

Forum is still totally unstable. Half the time it won't load. Has been this way for a few weeks now for me

AndThen · « **Reply #19 on:** September 19, 2014, 07:33:29 AM »

Yesterday and today have been extremely bad. The forum nor the actual webpage would load at all. I'm very surprised I am able to post this at all right now. Even sites like isup.me would show mmm as being down.

ender · « **Reply #20 on:** September 24, 2014, 03:58:32 PM »

Hmmm we seem to have lost the "View new posts" and "view new replies" options...

presumably these were disabled while investigating the forum problems?

solon · « **Reply #21 on:** September 24, 2014, 04:11:08 PM »

Quote from: enderland on September 24, 2014, 03:58:32 PM

Hmmm we seem to have lost the "View new posts" and "view new replies" options...

presumably these were disabled while investigating the forum problems?

I don't think so. I use them all the time.

See this arrow? Click it.

ender · « **Reply #22 on:** September 24, 2014, 04:18:36 PM »

Quote from: solon on September 24, 2014, 04:11:08 PM

Quote from: enderland on September 24, 2014, 03:58:32 PM
Hmmm we seem to have lost the "View new posts" and "view new replies" options...

presumably these were disabled while investigating the forum problems?

I don't think so. I use them all the time.

See this arrow? Click it.

Ahh, I see the urls have changed from:

mrmoneymustache.com/forum/unreadreplies/

to

http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/index.php?action=unread

I almost never used the direct link from the clickable buttons but rather have been using previous sites (in chrome, typing mr.. prepopulates recent links).

I haven't actually clicked through that for... a long time. hah.

swick · « **Reply #23 on:** September 24, 2014, 08:26:33 PM »

MOD NOTE: Much of the instability over the past couple of weeks has been due to some software not being able to handle the traffic. Admin has been working on the problem over the past couple of days (hence the downtime and stranger than usual error messages) you should notice a vast improvement shortly. If you note more problems, please post or PM one of the Admins or Mods.

MDM · « **Reply #24 on:** September 24, 2014, 08:36:32 PM »

Quote from: swick on September 24, 2014, 08:26:33 PM

MOD NOTE: Much of the instability over the past couple of weeks has been due to some software not being able to handle the traffic. Admin has been working on the problem over the past couple of days (hence the downtime and stranger than usual error messages) you should notice a vast improvement shortly. If you note more problems, please post or PM one of the Admins or Mods.

Thanks for the update!

Thegoblinchief · « **Reply #25 on:** September 25, 2014, 11:02:47 AM »

Quote from: MDM on September 24, 2014, 08:36:32 PM

Quote from: swick on September 24, 2014, 08:26:33 PM
MOD NOTE: Much of the instability over the past couple of weeks has been due to some software not being able to handle the traffic. Admin has been working on the problem over the past couple of days (hence the downtime and stranger than usual error messages) you should notice a vast improvement shortly. If you note more problems, please post or PM one of the Admins or Mods.
Thanks for the update!

Yes, glad to see some communication about it :)

MayDay · « **Reply #26 on:** November 09, 2014, 04:27:33 PM »

Was the site down most of the weekend or was it just me?

MDM · « **Reply #27 on:** November 09, 2014, 05:54:02 PM »

Quote from: MayDay on November 09, 2014, 04:27:33 PM

Was the site down most of the weekend or was it just me?

Can't quantify the downtime but "it wasn't just you" seems fair to say.

Thegoblinchief · « **Reply #28 on:** November 26, 2014, 03:45:54 PM »

Over the past week I've had lots of instances where the site will fail to respond for minutes up to hours. I gather based on MMM's most recent post that there's extra traffic coming towards the site, but it's frustrating nonetheless.

Boz86 · « **Reply #29 on:** November 27, 2014, 07:07:55 AM »

Interesting, it had seemed to be getting better to me. Although I only hit it once in the mid-morning, EST (GMT -6)

Rural · « **Reply #30 on:** November 27, 2014, 09:30:24 AM »

Weird. I've been on extensively and at all hours (have a cold and can't sleep well) over the last several days. No trouble at all.

LennStar · « **Reply #31 on:** November 27, 2014, 01:55:03 PM »

no problems here, too

Professor Ecks · « **Reply #32 on:** November 29, 2014, 06:21:32 AM »

I had trouble for about an hour yesterday morning. That was the second time in the past couple weeks.

OutBy40 · « **Reply #33 on:** December 04, 2014, 09:59:28 AM »

Looks like MMM should probably run these forums on another web server to help distribute the load a little more evenly...budget allowing, of course. :)

LadyStache · « **Reply #34 on:** January 12, 2015, 08:02:06 AM »

I got this error a couple times last week and again this morning. :(

Dumb blonde · « **Reply #35 on:** January 13, 2015, 01:41:51 PM »

Small weird problem: there are new replies to topics in which I posted but I can't see them. My own post is the last one that I see.

Thegoblinchief · « **Reply #36 on:** February 02, 2015, 07:02:18 AM »

Getting ads that redirect the page to a page in the iOS app store (on my iPad). At least in the past, these were something not requested by MMM, but something the ad server did that was not desired.

If it is desired, well, sigh, but they're annoying. Just my $0.02.

LennStar · « **Reply #37 on:** February 05, 2015, 10:29:55 AM »

The last 10 hours were more off- then online.

Also, if you type site problems in the search this thread does not show up :(

arebelspy · « **Reply #38 on:** February 05, 2015, 01:08:53 PM »

Quote from: LennStar on February 05, 2015, 10:29:55 AM

Also, if you type site problems in the search this thread does not show up :(

Probably because the phrase wasn't in any posts, and it appears it may not search titles? (Advanced search aside.)

I just searched for that phrase now (all subforums), and it was the 4th thread.

Boz86 · « **Reply #39 on:** February 05, 2015, 04:02:26 PM »

yeah, I ran into problems again this morning, around 9:00am EST.

deborah · « **Reply #40 on:** March 07, 2015, 11:33:50 AM »

I've been running into a few problems before yesterday's big outage. I'm not sure whether they are things that have been around forever, are linked to the outage or are separate.

When I finish updating a post, the screen goes to the list for the subforum that post is in - say "investor alley" (although this happens with any subforum). While I am in the subforum, I check out posts marked "new" to see if there are any interesting ones. Sometimes, there are posts marked "new" which were last updated a week ago - and that shouldn't happen, because each day I mark all the ones I don't read with "mark all read" when I go through them. Also, sometimes when this is happening, I "reload current page" with the browser and different posts are marked "new".

arebelspy · « **Reply #41 on:** March 07, 2015, 01:28:30 PM »

If someone edits the last post (maybe any post?) it marks it as new.

deborah · « **Reply #42 on:** March 07, 2015, 02:14:21 PM »

However, if it is edited, it goes to the top of the list - because the list is in edited order. These are things that are further down the list, And there is often a clump of them all marked "new" - and it doesn't explain that when it is in that state, others (which I think were in the same position before the reload) are marked new. It has been happening over the past week, and one happened this morning after the reload. The next time it happens, I will take screenshots, and add them to this post.

deborah · « **Reply #43 on:** March 08, 2015, 03:37:27 PM »

I have now seen one - "One month, One Habit". It had not been edited after the last post on 7 March our time (6 March your time), yet came up as new today, and was marked as read by me yesterday.

Further, ther is a clump of three in the second attachment, one of which has no edits. Everything was marked as read by me yesterday, so non of these should be marked as new today.

Ditchmonkey · « **Reply #44 on:** March 09, 2015, 04:01:08 PM »

A lot of users + software not optimized for large sites = high server loads and excessive memory usage. In the past I owned a large forum like this and these problems were common. I know MMM likes the "DIY" approach, but at some point a site grows to the point where professional help is needed.

octavius · « **Reply #45 on:** March 10, 2015, 10:19:36 AM »

As a new member, I've noticed that this site is very unstable compared to most other sites I've used. (thought I still enjoy the content when I can get it to load).

It generally works from my laptop (through whatever wireless connection I'm using at the time).

It never works from my mobile device (SG3)... just returns 503 errors.

chops · « **Reply #46 on:** March 17, 2015, 06:14:13 PM »

FYI admins, the website wouldn't load around 3pm CST. Loading fine now at 7:15pm CST.

- Chops

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Author Topic: site problems? (Read 17228 times)

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