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[DunWeb]

I don't know if the forum problems are regional or if everyone is experiencing problems, but I get this error message several times per day.

An error occurred with the SQL server:
This is not a problem with IP.Board but rather with your SQL server. Please contact your host and copy the message shown above.


Anyone else having problems with the forum server ????




Chris

Edited by DunWeb, 21 December 2011 - 03:47 AM.

[Jack_mcs]

Yep, same here.

[Taipo]

Aside from whatever the cause is of the constant DB outages, I do not see the point of an error message telling forum viewers to contact the webhost with a copy of the error message.

[DunWeb]

Taipo, on 21 December 2011 - 05:17 AM, said:

Aside from whatever the cause is of the constant DB outages, I do not see the point of an error message telling forum viewers to contact the webhost with a copy of the error message.

I agree Te, it is kind of redundant.



Chris

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

Hi All..

This is the first kind of report we're getting. The database is fine. Since when has this been happening?

Kind regards,

[DunWeb]

Harald,

I have been getting the error over the past week or so.  I thought it was a 'glitch' but the frequency has been increasing.



Chris

[kymation]

I've seen this a few times. A reload has always worked, so I just ignored it.

The interesting thing is that the part of the warning box that is supposed to contain the error message is always blank. Secure, certainly, but hardly useful.

Regards
Jim

[Jack_mcs]

When it happens, it will usually load after a few minutes (the few times I tried) so it might be a server limit is being reached and has to reset, which usually takes about that long.

[DunWeb]

I have been off line as long as 20 minutes when I receive the error message.......



Chris

[Biancoblu]

Over the last 2 weeks or so I have encountered the problem where the forum doesn't load at all. Sometimes it has reported a "service unavailable" error.

[DunWeb]

The server was down from 10:13pm EST to 10:36pm EST with the following error messages:

503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.


When I tried to refresh 5 minutes later I received this one:

SQL Error
An error occured with the SQL server:

This is not a problem with IP.Board but rather with your SQL server. Please contact your host and copy the message shown above.

«Return to the index



When the server came back online this was the current load:

381 users are online (in the past 60 minutes)

12 members, 369 guests, 0 anonymous users

[foxp2]

confirmed.
sql server has a slight cough ...

Edited by foxp2, 23 December 2011 - 04:02 AM.

[Taipo]

Theres a screen cap of the error
http://i40.tinypic.com/10ge4vs.png

You can see from http://goo.gl/OvScT that this is not an isolated issue. 9,240 results.

The outage lasts a couple of minutes, hinting that this is possibly a max sessions thing of some form.

Edited by Taipo, 26 December 2011 - 03:56 AM.

[MrPhil]

In recent weeks I frequently try to make a post, and the browser spins and spins for 10 or 15 minutes before giving up. I don't know if this is the same problem others are seeing. If I retry, sometimes it does the same thing and sometimes I get the message about "The server is temporarily unable to service your request" or "This is not a problem with IP.Board but rather with your SQL server". It's not a freak event... BTW I'm in New York.

Edited by MrPhil, 26 December 2011 - 08:20 PM.

[geoffreywalton]

Noproblem posting but do get thrown out of the chat romm in lees than an hour

You have been kicked from the chat room

Cheers

G

[Taipo]

It will take a while I suspect, for IP.Board to acknowledge that this is their issue. At the moment it seems many of the other discussion threads on this topic on the range of IPB forums tend to invariably end up pointing the finger at database connection, sleep state and issues rather than themselves. I am not a forum member of IPB so cannot see all that is happening on their support forums, but that is what I can see from reading the cached pages from Google searches.

[DunWeb]

geoffreywalton, on 26 December 2011 - 08:45 PM, said:

Noproblem posting but do get thrown out of the chat romm in lees than an hour

You have been kicked from the chat room

Cheers

G

This time limit has been set up by the forum moderators.  It is listed on the chat room rules pages as you enter the chat area.



Chris

[geoffreywalton]

DunWeb, on 27 December 2011 - 08:51 PM, said:

This time limit has been set up by the forum moderators.  It is listed on the chat room rules pages as you enter the chat area.

Chris

Did you miss my point

Quote

lees than an hour

must have been my "speelink".

Cheers

G



Inactive members are automatically departed from the chat room after 6 hours.

[Biancoblu]

geoffreywalton, on 26 December 2011 - 08:45 PM, said:

Noproblem posting but do get thrown out of the chat romm in lees than an hour

I experienced the same problem, and at times the replies I type don't show.

[DunWeb]

Dec 28, 2011

Down from 10:03pm to 10:54pm EST

The length of the downtime is increasing.


Chris