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"The server is too busy......."

Navy Chief

Navy Chief

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There are times when I go to sign onto the SOH site, and the message is displayed that says "the server is too busy; try later", or something to that effect.. But lately, the frequency of this happening has increased considerably. Any info? NC
 
Yep. Just happened to me five minutes ago, 6:05 pm Pacific Time on Sunday - only 8 members and 335 guests on line.

Does anyone have an idea what is going on?
 
We have staff members who would usually be able to look into this area MIA for some weeks.
RL issues are impacting these people AFAIK.
:indecisiveness:
 
Ii's funny you guys have all started whingeing about this now. We in Western Europe have had the dreaded message for years - usually in the early morning our time.
It was always attributed to site maintenance, updates, etc., done at a time which inconvenienced the majority of users least.
It appears that the timing of this might have changed, for whatever reason.
Certainly I'm having no trouble this morning ! Posting at this hour used to be a no-no.
 
lefty said:
Ii's funny you guys have all started whingeing about this now. We in Western Europe have had the dreaded message for years - usually in the early morning our time.
It was always attributed to site maintenance, updates, etc., done at a time which inconvenienced the majority of users least.
It appears that the timing of this might have changed, for whatever reason.
Certainly I'm having no trouble this morning ! Posting at this hour used to be a no-no.
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Same here. It used to be quite impossible to access this website in the early hours, but I didn't face this issue for ages.
 
lefty said:
Ii's funny you guys have all started whingeing about this now.
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Not really accurate. When I couldn't access this forum, I posted on the SOH Flight Center site. If you go there you'll see posts on this issue going back several years. :untroubled:
 
Multiple times over the last few days I have been getting emails about high server loads. The culprit is mysql which is normal and 2 other process that I do not normally see as high.

I am looking into it.
 
cross your fingers

I believe it was the same old problem of too many bots indexing the site. Over 400 in just a couple of IP Address ranges. I blocked them and have been monitoring it. So far it looks good.

I also learned a few things about the server load message. I have to contemplate how I address it.
 
South Yorkshire, UK, seven times today from approx 6.30am up to about 5 minutes ago.
 
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