Forum down!

[notblox1]

Situation is getting better and I didnt experience any error pages today, everything is loading fast and maybe admin already fixed those server problems.
We should all have more patience and understanding for altcoinstalks team.

[bitterguy28]

Situation is getting better and I didnt experience any error pages today, everything is loading fast and maybe admin already fixed those server problems.
We should all have more patience and understanding for altcoinstalks team.

Lucky for you mate but in my side? there are lots of GERR error yesterday that I need to rest for some hour as it is frustrating when you wanted to post your typing and suddenly this GERR will appear even how many times I refreshed the Site? lets see today if this will still happen(hoping not ).

[dkbit98]

Altcoinstalks forum was down for me today and I couldn't access any page.
I don't know how long this lasted but I think it was between 30 minutes and one hour, and cloudflare didn't help much.
Does anyone (inclduing admin) knows what was the problem? Was this ddos attack or something else?

[Zed0X]

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Does anyone (inclduing admin) knows what was the problem? Was this ddos attack or something else?

It was done intentionally maybe for minor changes. The specific reason was not stated but admin mentioned in the chat that the forum will be offline.

The exact message was
'The forum will be offline for a short period of time between today & tomorrow'

[KingsDen]

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Does anyone (inclduing admin) knows what was the problem? Was this ddos attack or something else?

It was done intentionally maybe for minor changes. The specific reason was not stated but admin mentioned in the chat that the forum will be offline.

The exact message was
'The forum will be offline for a short period of time between today & tomorrow'

That was the exact words of the admin and it is still in the chats not cleared yet. When the traffic here was not high, I don't think that such schedule maintenance do happen, but since there's an increased activities here, we should occasionally expect such downtime.
It is now in the place of the admin to choose a way to effect maintenance without going offline. I also think that a few mins downtime will also not cause much havoc in the forum. 

[notblox1]

If this was another planned maintenance work than it should be posted on top as news announcement like other forums are doing.
Posting this in chat is not bad but this can get hidden easy with more posts from other people, so maybe admin should add sticky posts in chat.

[examplens]

If this was another planned maintenance work than it should be posted on top as news announcement like other forums are doing.
Posting this in chat is not bad but this can get hidden easy with more posts from other people, so maybe admin should add sticky posts in chat.

Again, a large number of users will not see that message even the moment the forum goes offline, and there will be those who are not sure what happened to the forum.
Instead, if the forum goes offline as planned, it is logical to set up an ordinary HTML page during that time with a notification that the forum is in the process of upgrading or regular maintenance, instead of an indefinite message from the hosting "Connection time out".

[hugeblack]

If this was another planned maintenance work than it should be posted on top as news announcement like other forums are doing.
Posting this in chat is not bad but this can get hidden easy with more posts from other people, so maybe admin should add sticky posts in chat.

There was an ANN in Altt Chat:
admin [27|Jun 01:45 PM]: The forum will be offline for a short period of time between today & tomorrow

Again, a large number of users will not see that message even the moment the forum goes offline, and there will be those who are not sure what happened to the forum.

Maintenance may require stopping the server, but I agree with you.

[dkbit98]

It was done intentionally maybe for minor changes. The specific reason was not stated but admin mentioned in the chat that the forum will be offline.

I don't read the chat very often, and I didn't know that admin uses chat for this purpose.
Frequent cleaning is maybe needed but it makes me use it less and only for posting links for admin sometimes.
There is also forum telegram account but I think it's not active with news updates.

Instead, if the forum goes offline as planned, it is logical to set up an ordinary HTML page during that time with a notification that the forum is in the process of upgrading or regular maintenance, instead of an indefinite message from the hosting "Connection time out".

I agree, but admin is probably busy for that.

[Zed0X]

This happened about 20-30 minutes ago. Is there anyone else who experienced this? I thought the forum was being spammed by some group because of what admin tweeted about suing a Government

[Yamane_Keto]

This happened about 20-30 minutes ago. Is there anyone else who experienced this? I thought the forum was being spammed by some group because of what admin tweeted about suing a Government

It may be either due to an error in Settings.php led to a problem in the database, or due to connection problems.
The error did not persist for long because I did not find it in Is it down? Check at Down services

[kulkhan]

Forum was down yesterday without any prior announcement and warnings from admins.

If this was a planned maintenance that should be announced before, and if not than it should be posted in official telegram or other channels, this is very important for business that are advertising in forum.

What do you think about this incident and is there any official explanation posted?

I also saw this problem. But i thought it happen for internet problem. After some time we understand it is server down. And you told right for this kinds of maintenance should announcement. Otherwise people/users will be Confused. So i wish in future we will get an announcement if need any maintenance of any problem.

And may many thanks admin for within short time solve this problem. Now sever is well. We are doing very smoothly.

[notblox1]

This happened about 20-30 minutes ago. Is there anyone else who experienced this? I thought the forum was being spammed by some group because of what admin tweeted about suing a Government

I missed this downtime and I didnt have any problems with Altcoinstalks website today.
Maybe admin announced some maintenance work before but I didnt saw anything about that yesterday.
We are getting bigger so maybe someone is attacking the forum.

[dkbit98]

I am glad AltcoinsTalks forum is working fine today, but it's a bad day for bitcointalk forum, in last few hours that forum is unusable and people reported many errors.
Is there any topic here about Bitcointalk where we can make discussion about that subject, I don't want to open another topic just for this?

[Husna QA]

I am glad AltcoinsTalks forum is working fine today, but it's a bad day for bitcointalk forum, in last few hours that forum is unusable and people reported many errors.
Is there any topic here about Bitcointalk where we can make discussion about that subject, I don't want to open another topic just for this?

No wonder when I opened Bitcointalk today, it took a while to load. At first, I thought it was the internet connection or browser on my PC that was having problems.
Even just now, when I was about to post there, it appeared Bad gateway with Error code 502.



Previously, I also had problems accessing Altcoinstalks.

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