[Micky C]

I can access the forums just fine, but the actual Duke4.net page itself is down with a white background and the following message:

CRITICAL_ERROR:
Line : generic, class2.php

Error reported as: [6]: Unable to form a valid connection to mySQL. Please check that your e107_config.php contains the correct information.


What's going on?

[Hank]

Micky C, on 13 June 2011 - 02:20 PM, said:

What's going on?

I think they're have a private party.

I got the same message, b.t.w. no worries. I'm sure they'll fix it.

[LkMax]

The same here, and it is happening all the time. At least the forums are working.

[Zaxtor]

Get same.


CRITICAL_ERROR:
Line : generic, class2.php

Error reported as: [6]: Unable to form a valid connection to mySQL. Please check that your e107_config.php contains the correct information.

[VinsaneOne]

It's working now, after 4 tries.

[Hank]

VinsaneOne, on 13 June 2011 - 06:59 PM, said:

It's working now, after 4 tries.

Nope! Still dead
In 26 min. Duke hits America....

[TerminX]

The hosting for the main site is something we get for free on the same server that runs www.gtagaming.com. The reason the forums stay up no matter what happens to the site is that the forums are on a completely separate and way overpowered server donated by Plagman. I think I'm going to push Yatta towards moving the main site over to the box the forums are on sometime soon if these outages keep happening. Frankly, the outages cost us money as far as advertising goes and that's obviously not something that makes me very happy.

[VinsaneOne]

Hank, on 13 June 2011 - 07:36 PM, said:

Nope! Still dead
In 26 min. Duke hits America....

Loads up for me!

[Micky C]

It happened again. I can access it now, but I couldn't before.

I never saw it come offline like this before I made this thread, so if the server is crashing, it must be more frequent than it's been in the past.

[Kathy]

Anyone else have problems with forums loading?

My PC

ping forums.duke4.net
PING forums.duke4.net (88.190.14.129) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from steroid.plagman.net (88.190.14.129): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=92.3 ms
64 bytes from steroid.plagman.net (88.190.14.129): icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=92.5 ms
....
64 bytes from steroid.plagman.net (88.190.14.129): icmp_seq=22 ttl=44 time=94.9 ms
^C
--- forums.duke4.net ping statistics ---
22 packets transmitted, 18 received, 18% packet loss, time 21039ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 92.373/93.459/98.353/1.406 ms

http://network-tools...orums.duke4.net

Ping 88.190.14.129
[forums.duke4.net]
Round trip time to 88.190.14.129: 140 ms
Timed out
Round trip time to 88.190.14.129: 140 ms
Round trip time to 88.190.14.129: 140 ms
Round trip time to 88.190.14.129: 140 ms
Timed out
Round trip time to 88.190.14.129: 140 ms
Round trip time to 88.190.14.129: 140 ms
Round trip time to 88.190.14.129: 140 ms
Round trip time to 88.190.14.129: 140 ms

Average time over 10 pings: 112 ms

http://ping.eu/ping/

--- forums.duke4.net ping statistics ---
packets transmitted 	5
received 	4
packet loss 	20 %
time 	4012 ms

What is going on?

P.S. I thought duke4.net and forums.duke4.net were at completely different servers.

[Lunick]

Yeah, loading really strangely.

[Kathy]

Now it's okay.

[Jeff]

Kind of loading strange today. I don't think it's me, since other sites load just fine. Ping is around 210ms or so, from Canada.

[Lunick]

Loading stupidly slow here too...

Edit: Got this error message, Server busy or per-user connection limit exceeded.

[ReaperMan]

Loading really slow.

Took me like 3 minutes just to post this.

[Mike Norvak]

5 minutes to upvote you and other five to post this

[Hank]

upvote took 2sec
posting 4 sec.
but the load of the post took 3 minutes.

[Kathy]

Problem has same symptoms as they were in November.

[Hank]

... could be duke4 pms

[Yatta]

Should be ok now!

I was swapping out the hard drive on the server so the entire site was loading from my home computer in the meantime. TX please confirm.

[Lunick]

It isn't ok...

[ReaperMan]

Still slow.

[Hank]

[TerminX]

Yeah, the location the server is in is having problems. There's nothing we can do about that, unfortunately.

[Hank]

^ don't worry, I just could not resist posting the above

[Kathy]

Here we go again...

[Lunick]

I thought it might have just been me browsing from a mobile device...

[Forge]

more drunken debauchery at the Tx residence.

beer and body fluid shorting out the servers again

[Yatta]

Forge, on 25 June 2014 - 06:47 PM, said:

more drunken debauchery at the Tx residence.

beer and body fluid shorting out the servers again

The server is in France actually. Must've been something temporary. I had access the several times I logged onto the site today.

[Forge]

Yatta, on 25 June 2014 - 08:45 PM, said:

The server is in France actually. Must've been something temporary. I had access the several times I logged onto the site today.

France?
hmm..Tx in a beret, surrounded by poodles, and half naked women racing around him on bicycles

Spoiler

no wonder the server went down for a bit