Site down?

Snarky · Sun 22/12/2019 11:38:17

The site has seemed intermittently inaccessible for the last few days. Anyone else having this problem or just me?

Cassiebsg · Sun 22/12/2019 12:12:15

It's not just you.
Been like this for about a week or so.

Click'd · Sun 22/12/2019 12:15:52

Err_connection_timed_out, got that a lot. Tried all the solutions I could find, but since it's apparently not on my end...

AGA · Sun 22/12/2019 14:05:56

I think I've identified the script that was causing the issue, and disabled it for the time being. No idea what the issue is though, it looks well formed enough.

eri0o · Sun 22/12/2019 14:11:35

Thanks AGA! Site appears to be working great now!

Crimson Wizard · Sun 22/12/2019 14:56:50

Quote from: AGA on Sun 22/12/2019 14:05:56
I think I've identified the script that was causing the issue, and disabled it for the time being. No idea what the issue is though, it looks well formed enough.

Idk if related, but there are some strange numbers under my name now... and some other peoples too.

eri0o · Sun 22/12/2019 15:00:02

The Matrix is leaking

Cassiebsg · Sun 22/12/2019 16:14:33

And I have a feeling it might be related with the TLS handshake... or not. I'm just saying that cause I often see the message, and normally I don't notice it.

eri0o · Sun 22/12/2019 16:15:13

Mandle started another topic here -> https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=57643.0

Cassiebsg beat CW at number leakage but Mandle is much higher still.

Stupot · Sun 22/12/2019 20:32:26

Is this some kind of ARG?

Let's solve the puzzle of the numbers. Is it related to TIMESTAMPS at all?

Frodo · Sun 22/12/2019 23:01:16

It's still crashing a lot for me.

AGA · Mon 23/12/2019 16:32:45

The numbers were something I put in while debugging the error. I then went out and got drunk and forgot to remove them.

The script causing the issue (displaying Awards badges on a post) should now be fixed. Please let me know if you notice any periods of downtime again.

Matti · Mon 23/12/2019 23:34:35

I still have problems loading the site.

Laura Hunt · Tue 24/12/2019 07:12:56

Quote from: Matti on Mon 23/12/2019 23:34:35
I still have problems loading the site.

Yeah, me too...

Cassiebsg · Tue 24/12/2019 07:43:10

Same here

Tabata · Tue 24/12/2019 09:15:45

Quote from: Matti on Mon 23/12/2019 23:34:35
I still have problems loading the site.

+ 1

Stupot · Tue 24/12/2019 09:23:11

Same. This is the first time I've been able to see any pages all day.

Matti · Wed 25/12/2019 03:19:45

Seems to be working fine now, for me.

EDIT: No, not really

cat · Wed 25/12/2019 17:19:13

Not only the forum, but also the main site and games DB is affected

Frodo · Wed 25/12/2019 22:52:30

Same here. It's down more than it's up.

eri0o · Thu 26/12/2019 11:03:24

Forums are loading slow for me, not sure if it's my internet or if the website has something, but thought I would report it.

BarbWire · Thu 26/12/2019 11:53:34

Hallelujah! The site is actually accessible, at the moment.

I did report on the problems, last week, but when the topic
was moved my post mysteriously disappeared.

I hope the powers that be can sort this issue, a.s.a.p

Mandle · Thu 26/12/2019 12:06:18

Still very choppy connection issues.

Adeel · Thu 26/12/2019 19:28:48

The site keeps making requests infinitely. It made over 15K requests in just one minute which were blocked by my adblocker. If I let the site keep loading, the number of requests even surpass 100K+.

Spoiler

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cat · Thu 26/12/2019 19:58:32

Now it is working fine, but in the morning the forum would hardly load and I got the following message on the game db page:

Database connection error: Too many connections
Warning: mysqli::close(): Couldn't fetch mysqli in /home/ags/html/includes/functions.php on line 9

Not sure if this is related to the general problem, though.

blur · Thu 26/12/2019 23:30:43

Quote from: Adeel on Thu 26/12/2019 19:28:48
The site keeps making requests infinitely. It made over 15K requests in just one minute which were blocked by my adblocker. If I let the site keep loading, the number of requests even surpass 100K+.

Are you sure your browser is not part of a botnet? I'd like to look at the request log of ublock, that is the third icon in the ublock popup.

Adeel · Fri 27/12/2019 09:51:32

Quote from: blur on Thu 26/12/2019 23:30:43
Are you sure your browser is not part of a botnet? I'd like to look at the request log of ublock, that is the third icon in the ublock popup.

You think I'd not have noticed already if that was the case? Thanks for assuming I'm an idiot. Here's the log for your "viewing pleasure":

Spoiler

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It has FB blocked because I have activated Fanboy's Social Media filtering list.

blur · Fri 27/12/2019 10:24:39

Quote from: Adeel on Fri 27/12/2019 09:51:32
Here's the log

Thanks.
My guess is that this logo gets loaded so many times because of the "onerror" event, that get's triggered ad infinite.
This could be of interest for AGA, perhaps.

Jack · Fri 27/12/2019 17:52:09

Site seems to be working fine right now, but this issue has returned for me around the time when the slowness began, and continues.

cat · Sat 28/12/2019 19:58:21

Yes, it seems to be working again, now. Was there maybe some DOS attack against the site?

Racoon · Mon 30/12/2019 20:12:55

I've had problems with loading the site for the last 2-3 hours. Sometimes the Main Page loaded after a while, but no chance with the forums. Luckily its working again now

Khris · Tue 31/12/2019 08:50:48

Still occasional downtime here, too. The status text says "Performing TLS handshake" before the site fails to load, so my guess is that the server is online in principle, it's just the https connection that borks.

Vincent · Tue 31/12/2019 10:00:45

Yesterday I also had some really hard times on loading the website.

EDIT: Today I have got this error message from the website, I've never got anything like this before and I am also having hard times today on loading the website as well too:

AGA · Sun 05/01/2020 14:23:48

Aside from a bit of planned downtime last night, performance seems to now be stable.