I've seen a few DB errors tonight. What's goin' on?

I've been getting them off and on for a couple of weeks and the forums are running very slowly most of the time. Here's a DB error I just got a few minutes ago:
There seems to have been a slight problem with the WebHostingTalk Forums database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Any chance that the guys at Rackspace could do something about the lousy performance of WHT over the last 3 or 4 days.

Its been running like crap, slowing down, timing out etc.... and it is really getting irritating now, to the point where I cannot even be bothered to use it.

Please fix our beloved WebHostingTalk!!!

:(

Originally posted by ub3r
What's goin' on?
Seems to be DB problems :D

I've only had 1 problem, refreshed and it worked fine.

And I thought it was just me. :D I've been reading Fark and Metafilter whenever I have to wait for the page to load here lately. On a good note - it's meant I've got more reading done, and faster. :)

Completely agreed. I've been getting terribly annoying database errors for days now.

I have been getting the same errors for the past 2 days but there is nothing that can make me leave WHT :love: :D

It lags sometime when I browse the forum ~ :crying:
Not the first day, yesterday or the day before was like that! :eek4:

Originally posted by D1esel
I have been getting the same errors for the past 2 days but there is nothing that can make me leave WHT :love: :D

:puke:

Originally posted by SniperDevil
:puke:

I think the barfing smiley covers it.:stickout:

I've been experiencing off and on slow loading and occasional DB errors on WHT for a couple of weeks now.

Yeah, seems to have been going on for at least a few days, if not more.... :eek:

Maybe the Nintendo is out of ROM.

Sirius

Either that or one of the hampsters died :rolleyes:

I have experienced nothing of the sort.....runs fast as usual.

i've only had one database error over the last week and i refreshed and it worked fine

I've had probably 5-10 in past few days, Thought it was only me :eek2:

Probably shows I'm on WHT too much..

Originally posted by Hoobastank68
I've had probably 5-10 in past few days, Thought it was only me :eek2:

Probably shows I'm on WHT too much..

Ahh...... I think that's my problem as well.:emlaugh:

I have been having problems for the last 2 days now :(. In fact when I was done with the thread two times now would do the DB error :(.

I've had one database error, but today WHT has been slower. But I think it's a combination of my dialup connection and maybe some kind of problem WHT is having...

But I've noticed on every site I visit, for the past several months, sometimes a web page decides not to load, and then I have to wait for it to work again. My stupid ISP.

I think I'm on WHT too much as well. It's addictive!! :D

Originally posted by SniperDevil
:puke:

You need to consult doctor :D

It is slow as anything lately. And the adds sometimes lag me out considerably.

But the slow page load time is the worst.

edit; 3rd time in the past 15 minutes I have had that DB error.

I've had the same thing but I assumed it was just me. Obviously not.

edit: infact I had to reload this page three times before it'd make this post.

Originally posted by D1esel
You need to consult doctor :D

What kind of doctor? Mental or physical? :nuts:

works fine for me ;)

Same problems here, painfully slow. Just had a database error in the last few minutes....

Ps. Since posting this, I`ve had two more database errors and it`s slower than ever!

If you view the page source, It'll show the db error in a section that is commented out.

9 16 ms 16 ms 26 ms pop1-atm-P4-0.atdn.net [66.185.150.1]
10 16 ms 17 ms 15 ms so-5-2-0.mpr1.atl6.us.above.net [209.249.119.241]
11 28 ms 26 ms 18 ms so-0-0-0.mpr2.atl6.us.above.net [64.125.27.50]
12 37 ms 28 ms 30 ms so-6-1-0.cr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.28.229]
13 37 ms 27 ms 28 ms so-6-0-0.mpr1.iad1.us.above.net [64.125.28.126]
14 29 ms 29 ms 39 ms so-3-0-0.mpr2.iad2.us.above.net [64.125.28.214]
15 51 ms 28 ms 28 ms so-3-0-0.mpr2.iad10.us.above.net [64.125.30.121]
16 218 ms 226 ms 208 ms 209.249.11.37.available.above.net [209.249.11.37]
17 40 ms 29 ms 28 ms vlan903.core3.iad1.rackspace.com [69.20.1.40]
18 29 ms 28 ms 29 ms aggr104a.iad1.rackspace.com [69.20.3.19]
19 39 ms 28 ms 29 ms 69.20.37.114


At hop 16, looks like their above.net connection is having problems. It's causing WHT to load very slowly. Is this a known issue?

Also:

9 17 ms 27 ms 16 ms pop1-atm-P4-0.atdn.net [66.185.150.1]
10 18 ms 16 ms 34 ms so-5-2-0.mpr1.atl6.us.above.net [209.249.119.241]
11 18 ms 18 ms 17 ms so-0-0-0.mpr2.atl6.us.above.net [64.125.27.50]
12 44 ms 30 ms 32 ms so-6-1-0.cr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.28.229]
13 29 ms 27 ms 29 ms so-6-0-0.mpr1.iad1.us.above.net [64.125.28.126]
14 30 ms 29 ms 29 ms so-3-0-0.mpr2.iad2.us.above.net [64.125.28.214]
15 29 ms 27 ms 29 ms so-3-0-0.mpr2.iad10.us.above.net [64.125.30.121]
16 30 ms 30 ms 32 ms 209.249.11.37.available.above.net [209.249.11.37]
17 240 ms 200 ms 200 ms vlan903.core3.iad1.rackspace.com [69.20.1.40]
18 30 ms 29 ms 30 ms aggr104a.iad1.rackspace.com [69.20.3.19]
19 35 ms 30 ms 45 ms 69.20.37.114

So, maybe the connection between 16 and 17.

Originally posted by QuickPacket
Also:

9 17 ms 27 ms 16 ms pop1-atm-P4-0.atdn.net [66.185.150.1]
10 18 ms 16 ms 34 ms so-5-2-0.mpr1.atl6.us.above.net [209.249.119.241]
11 18 ms 18 ms 17 ms so-0-0-0.mpr2.atl6.us.above.net [64.125.27.50]
12 44 ms 30 ms 32 ms so-6-1-0.cr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.28.229]
13 29 ms 27 ms 29 ms so-6-0-0.mpr1.iad1.us.above.net [64.125.28.126]
14 30 ms 29 ms 29 ms so-3-0-0.mpr2.iad2.us.above.net [64.125.28.214]
15 29 ms 27 ms 29 ms so-3-0-0.mpr2.iad10.us.above.net [64.125.30.121]
16 30 ms 30 ms 32 ms 209.249.11.37.available.above.net [209.249.11.37]
17 240 ms 200 ms 200 ms vlan903.core3.iad1.rackspace.com [69.20.1.40]
18 30 ms 29 ms 30 ms aggr104a.iad1.rackspace.com [69.20.3.19]
19 35 ms 30 ms 45 ms 69.20.37.114

So, maybe the connection between 16 and 17.


Unless the high ping carriers through to the destination it means nothing. Just that the router treats icmp with low priority.

Originally posted by concept
Unless the high ping carriers through to the destination it means nothing. Just that the router treats icmp with low priority.

Doesn't normally happen, so I thought I'd mention it.

Some sparotic db issues here. Then there was the INET "Under maintenance" page. Such is life on the net! :)

Had a bit of DB problems for the past week here. But for the past few hours, everuthing seems to time our or load very slowly for me.

Everything is fast here this morning, I hope it stays that way.:confused:

In the last 5 mins, I've had the main forum page take almost 3 mins to come up, then 2 db errors soon after.. I might be able to ship my apple IIc down to Rackspace to give them a boost.. lol

Wow today, I couldn't even get to WHT untill 3 PM.

Its been slow for the last few days for me, I find myself having to try link's 3 or 4 times to get the page to load. Have had a few database errors and 1 maintenance page.

No DB errors at all, it's just been extremely slow for the last few days. Tonight has been particularly bad. Ping and trace routes are fine, so seems more likely to be on the servers.

Originally posted by catfished
Everything is fast here this morning, I hope it stays that way.:confused:

I guess it was too much to hope for, it's slow as molasses now.:bawling: ;)

Well, I hope someone is active in looking into this.. :) It took 8 tries this time to get this thread to come up.. wheee!

Seems much faster now. But probably since there is less then 50 users on :(

Man that was like 4 hours of downtime. Hope they knocked out the issue during all that.

I didnt know what to do with myself for that long.

I have missed WHT so much today :bawling: . Now I know I have a problem..... :blush:

Originally posted by concept
Man that was like 4 hours of downtime. Hope they knocked out the issue during all that.

I didnt know what to do with myself for that long.

I know I was having WHT panic attack. I did not know what to do.

:uhh:

When i returned to WHIT, there were only 7 members including myself online. I haven't seen it that empty in.......well ever.

Ha, timing i guess.

Torith, my sources inform me that you did manage to find a home at another forum not all that different to this one. ;)

Critic, :ukflag:

I felt the same way. :(

I have been a member to that forum for a while just do not post as much. WHT is my first home :lovewht: .


Originally posted by Critic
When i returned to WHIT, there were only 7 members including myself online. I haven't seen it that empty in.......well ever.

Ha, timing i guess.

Torith, my sources inform me that you did manage to find a home at another forum not all that different to this one. ;)

Critic, :ukflag:

Originally posted by Torith
I know I was having WHT panic attack. I did not know what to do.

:uhh:

Don't worry, I'm handing out paper bags at the index :)

EDIT: hmm, took about 10 secs to go from hold on while we take you back to the thread after posting, to the thread... faster, but something might still be up..

I might need two bags.


Originally posted by TurbulentMedia
Don't worry, I'm handing out paper bags at the index :)

EDIT: hmm, took about 10 secs to go from hold on while we take you back to the thread after posting, to the thread... faster, but something might still be up..

Originally posted by Torith
I might need two bags.

lol..

Well, when posting in the webhosting section, I came up with the db error msg twice.. faster, but still broke somewhere :)

Just come join IRC!

wB Y'all ! :D its all fine now

what was the problem?

Ive been having the same problems for the past few days, its fine now maybe because its 8AM Sunday Morning in the UK and early morning in the US. We'll have to see what its like later today :D

Yeah. an explanation would be nice. Seems to be nice and fast now. This was the second downtime I've noticed in the past couple days, hopefully it will be the last for a while.

Originally posted by The Napster
Ive been having the same problems for the past few days, its fine now maybe because its 8AM Sunday Morning in the UK and early morning in the US. We'll have to see what its like later today :D

Depends on what part of US you are at ;). Right now it is 1:06 AM to me that is late at night, but I guess you can consider it early morning since it is pass 12 AM. Dang I am getting off topic again.

Originally posted by Torith
Depends on what part of US you are at ;). Right now it is 1:06 AM to me that is late at night, but I guess you can consider it early morning since it is pass 12 AM. Dang I am getting off topic again.
You know what i meant :bkick: :stickout:

Well it's intermittent again here in Northern California. It took forever to get to this page.:mad:

same here in the UK seems to take ages to load pages one minute then seems to be fast, then slow again

Ditto, same here.

I think it's going to go down again, any minute now. Or maybe not, now it is a bit better, terribly erratic at the minute. :)

Critic, :ukflag:

It's been on and off from my view also.. It took about a minute to pull up this thread.

Ja! Im the first post!
Current Active Users: 666 :eek:

it takes like 18 minutes to edit a post.

haha, and I didn't even post this thread and i'm the first poster?

WHT needs alot of TLC.

Lately while browsingn around the forums, WHT has beed real slow to respond and has timed out a few times. If I close a window after posting and get tired of waiting, child windows start poping up left and right. It isn't pop-ups, but appear to be the forum scripts trying to open that next widow, (over and over)... the only thing that stops it is a 3 finger solute and closing the original process. It has been a while since I have noticed any glitches or outages, perhaps I have not been paying attention, Has anyone else been experiencing stuff like this lately?

Yep I have had problems for over a week now, I posted about these problems the other day but the post was removed, I suspect it was because I was critisizing Rackspace.

It seems the problem actually lies with Peer1, however Rackspace do not seem to have either noticed this problem or they do not intend to do anything about it. We will just have to put up with it until Rackspace/Peer1 be kind and sort it out.

Its been frustrating. WHT is almost unusable 90% of the time now, for me.

--Tina

Well it works, then it doesn't. Sometimes it can be good then other times it's just out.

Ive had trouble this weekend but up until then things had been fine.

For whatever reason, WHT seems to be slower than usual for me too....

It's been hell here :(

Today it's been fine for the half hour I've been home, but yesterday and the day before it was basically unusable. Down for maintenance, slow, timeouts, you name it, it happened.

I have noticed problems for the last week or so. Although it certainly hasn't been down 90% of the time for me, like it has with Tina.

I would say I have experienced 60%/40%, uptime/downtime over the last week.

Its not down 90% of the time for me...its just so slow and frustrating that its almost unusable. Like, just now, I got notification that you had replied to this thread. It took almost 3 minutes for the page to load after I clicked on the link. :(

--Tina

eh , it's slow again ? oh god not again :@

Originally posted by UK PC Net Matty
Yep I have had problems for over a week now, I posted about these problems the other day but the post was removed, I suspect it was because I was critisizing Rackspace.




Perhaps it was moved to the correct forum just like this thread will be.

We all know there are problems lately.
I don't know why people feel the need to start threads about it when it's already been discussed a dozen times.

Where has it been discussed a dozen times? I looked earlier and didn't see any mention of it....and doing a search is rather pointless, since it times out most of the time!

--Tina

In all of the merged threads in the feedback forum.

:'( I feel like im on 14.4k modem again

Last night, it was throwing back hardware related mysql errors.They probably need to replace some hardware on one of the database servers.

Originally posted by blue27
Perhaps it was moved to the correct forum just like this thread will be.

We all know there are problems lately.
I don't know why people feel the need to start threads about it when it's already been discussed a dozen times.


I dont know why people feel the need to comment about the threads started whenever there is a problem. Its not a big deal.. just dont read those threads.

:'( I feel like im on 14.4k modem again

It's that fast for you? :erm:

I've never really seen all that much downtime here since I've registered, it's been slow sometimes, but it's always returned to full speed after a while. Does the WHT staff normally share information regarding incidents like this (i.e. reason, solution, etc.)?

Seems to be pretty slow here still... even after the two runs of DB maintenance. Wonder what's up and why no one is posting anything about it.

Sirius

Originally posted by gina_
I dont know why people feel the need to comment about the threads started whenever there is a problem. Its not a big deal.. just dont read those threads.


Apparently the mods agree with me since this has been merged with the many other threads.

There is a reason there are multiple forums set up.
Post belong in the proper forums and this one originated in the lounge where it didn't belong.

Not so hard to understand.

Right now it's really slow. Last night when I was merging a thread in the Lounge, it took long enough that I was able to feed the cat, wash the dishes, upload some bus timetables, make coffee and change the radio station! Shortly after there was the iNET's "under maintenance" message.

The problem is right now is that the gerbils are tired and due to a gerbil shortage, new super ultra high-speed gerbils will take a few days to be shipped out. :D

Where is Inet? :o

Web servers powered by gerbils, now we know how rackspace manages to maintain their uptime. ;)

Anyway, I take it that it's iNET that handles all of this and the WHT staff aren't really kept in the loop?

Originally posted by mikeym
Web servers powered by gerbils, now we know how rackspace manages to maintain their uptime. ;)

Anyway, I take it that it's iNET that handles all of this and the WHT staff aren't really kept in the loop? iNET handles the servers.

About all I know is that they're aware and addressing the situation.

Originally posted by Mark L
haha, and I didn't even post this thread and i'm the first poster?

WHT needs alot of TLC.
Yeah kinda funny, I started yet another thread (the one you mention) and in 20 minutes there were 19 replies, I tried to go look at it, and it was lost. Usually I get redirected to the merged thread.

I may have some used gerbils I could ship out Monday if it helps.

The funny thing is, it can happen on one window, but not another. I can have one window timing out while posting in others. When I created the thread, I clicked to post, responded elsewhere and came back to a hung window and clicked post again, which might explain how you (Mike L) snuck your post over the top of mine(somehow).

Originally posted by SoftWareRevue
iNET handles the servers.

About all I know is that they're aware and addressing the situation.

Translation: SWR has stun gunned ProSlacker a few times to let him know what it's like to post on WHT right now. :)

Sirius

I came back to WHT about a half hour ago and have had no problems at all so far. He crosses his fingers again.:emlaugh:

585 peeps on the forum right now, and no issues at all at the moment.. It's acting like it used to. Looks like the stun gun worked :)

As well as the new gerbils! :D

Originally posted by TurbulentMedia
585 peeps on the forum right now, and no issues at all at the moment.. It's acting like it used to. Looks like the stun gun worked :)

Yep, the gerbils, stun gun etc. did the trick.:)

I had all day long the error, and just got another one... :(

Originally posted by tuwebfacil
I had all day long the error, and just got another one... :(
Oh no! Say it isn't so.:eek: It's been working fine for quite awhile for me now.

Originally posted by tuwebfacil
I had all day long the error, and just got another one... :(

In my best Charlton Heston voice:

Damn you gerbils!!!

(just got another db error over this way) although still fast..

Everything is running slooooow

Its kind of "ok" now, But when it gets busy it goes down with a bang :(
Hopefully they will get this sorted out :)

Regards,

I'm not sure what it's like for everybody else now, but it's running incredibly fast here.

Fastest it's ever run for me...

It's been fine here so far today.

Originally posted by KI-ChrisE
I'm not sure what it's like for everybody else now, but it's running incredibly fast here.

Fastest it's ever run for me...
Running smooth here too :)

Originally posted by sirius
Translation: SWR has stun gunned ProSlacker a few times to let him know what it's like to post on WHT right now. :)


That would be becuase it was his fault. ProSlacker was at the keyboard working late and fell asleep with the SSH window open. His head hit the keyboard, and nobody knows what he did :rolleyes:

Slow again :(

been down for a good 4 or 5 hours before this post maintenance :(

Well I hope we're finally done with this.

Why hasn't anyone posted with what's really going on?

What's to know?

It was broke. Hopefully it's fixed now.

I don't know what was wrong. I'm just glad it's working. :)

Originally posted by SoftWareRevue
What's to know?

It was broke. Hopefully it's fixed now.

I don't know what was wrong. I'm just glad it's working. :)

Oh I thought you like trying to merge threads and taking 10+ minutes though?

:emlaugh:

It seems stable now.

Originally posted by Torith
Oh I thought you like trying to merge threads and taking 10+ minutes though?

:emlaugh: It actually did take that long. :bawling:

Sometimes we got lucky and it was only 5 minutes.....I remember one I went to make toast while I was waiting. Toast cooked, popped up, I spread it and even ate it before the thread was split :s

Originally posted by SoftWareRevue
What's to know?

It was broke. Hopefully it's fixed now.

I don't know what was wrong. I'm just glad it's working. :)

Well like 3/4 of the time Inet comes and "DDoS" on site A etc...with a 113 replies thread with 1,100+ views, I'm surprised that they haven't said anything.

and it appears to be all better over here, hard to type with my fingers crossed though

Originally posted by Mark L
Well like 3/4 of the time Inet comes and "DDoS" on site A etc...with a 113 replies thread with 1,100+ views, I'm surprised that they haven't said anything.
Care to clarify that? :eek:

I think he was saying:

3/4 of the time, INET comes in here to tell us whether there was a DDOS attack on this site or something that has caused the downtime - and with 113 replies in this thread and about 1,100+ views, he's surprised they haven't said anything.

I may be wrong though.

Maybe it was a long boring technical answer that wouldn't make sense to most members.

I'm not sure how they could expand, when it is.

I know when Mat gets rambling on exactly what happened sometimes, I just tell him, we just want it to work. :D

Does anyone know what hardware os etc that WHT runs off of?

I believe that that information is "classified".

There's info here:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=206125&highlight=wht+rackspace+servers

So much for being classified :cool: . Thats quite a setup, and with rackspace you know its going to be expensive. I wonder how much a setup like that w/ them would cost. I guess all the ads on the forums really do bring in a good amount of $, assuming that they completely cover the servers cost, in which im sure they do.

Hmm, weird, I think I remember somebody saying something about htem not being able to tell us their server specs in IRC, but I could be wrong.

I dont see how releasing server specs would compromise anything. Software and firewall configuration / models perhaps..but not what kind of servers they use. Perhaps theres something I am overlooking?

With all due respect, that thread is nearly two years old. Things have changed substantially since then. ;)

HEHEHEHE. Nothing wrong with bringing back the dead :-D:emlaugh:

Originally posted by anon-e-mouse
With all due respect, that thread is nearly two years old. Things have changed substantially since then. ;)

soooo, what has changed substantially? :) :)

The weather. Keeps getting hotter. :angry:

Okay. Not sure what can be accomplished by beating this poor horse.

There was a db problem.

There isn't one now.

Thread Closed. :)