Site down again?
 

So I tried to access the site this morning and it didn't work. Something up?

Same here.

Has anyone contacted Bunni or Zackmann?

Finally saw the alert. Weird how some pages load while others do not.

So what is going on with the site? I haven't seen the alert.

It appears to be gone. It was a yellow "No updates while server is being updated" sign.

Ahhh. Got it. Do we have any idea how long this is going to take?

This isn't something like a Denial of Service attack, is it?

I'm still getting a cached "technical difficulties" page.

Strangely, I hear nothing from Bunni :(

AND nothing from Zackmann08

Figures that these Denial of service thugs attack when both of them are out of town.

I don't think we should jump to any conclusions, but it is a bit odd we haven't gotten any news, either here or on the FB page.

Yeah very odd indeed.

"(Can't contact the database server: Host '[IP ADDRESS]' is blocked because of many connection errors; unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts' ([IP ADDRESS]))"

Does it actually say your IP address, because mine just says 192.168.130.2, which is not my IP address.

That's the site's IP address.

Has anyone tried to contact Bunni or Zackmann08?

Doesn't it strike anyone as odd that no one is trying to send the rest of us messages as to the reason of the outage or when they think it might be up ..... ANY news at all ?

I had assumed someone had. I think I have Zackmann's email somewhere though.

Not sure but i believe it is an easy fix as well, with the site administrator simply having to run the "flush-hosts" command to unlock the database. The fact that it hasn't been done though suggests that either their is a bigger technical problem, or neither of them are around and haven't seen it. I've been travelling for a few days so have only just seen this, how long has it been down for?

We're now on Day 3. The Latest Updates page is still up, and the last update came at 8:43 on 3/12. I'm not sure what the default time zone that is though.

And we're back. 0513 EDT, 3/16.

Well that really sucked. Coincidentally @#! I've been traveling since Wednesday, I just got home at 2am after a 15.5 hour drive to an email from Alienqueen about the errors. One command and it's all back up, looks OK to me now. I don't know yet what caused the issue but will investigate, may have been an automated response to a flood of edit requests through a spam bot off the top of my very tired head.

Post on my Talk if there's any issues (I can already see the Categories are missing from the Sidebar), I'll check again first thing in the morning to see if the issue arises again.

Unfortunately, because the site was technically still 'UP', just showing an error, none of the automated systems notified me of an issue. :/ I'll have to rethink the notification settings.

Awesome, the site is back up.

Glad to see it back up. Anything that can be done to take care of this sooner in the future?

Is there any evidence that the site downtime was caused maliciously? There are plenty of scripts and botnet tools freely available on the internet that can be used for Denial of Service attacks these days.

I think I might be the only one having this problem, but every time I try to upload a picture now I get the following error: "Could not create directory "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/0/00".

EDIT: Hm, it seems to be a particular issue with the filename I was using.