What's up with the forums??

In 17.39 PM (GMT +1) I entered the Sonic Stuff Research Group. Look at the first attachment.


I clicked the "Forums" link to see if anyone has posted some news. I was waiting for 3 or 4 minutes, and I saw a white screen. After that I refreshed the page and I saw: Go to the 2nd attachment. Look at the next post double post, at the second link...


Now I entered the forums without any problems! (Sorry for posting in this forum, I can't start new topics in Forum News!)


What happened with the page?

 

Here are the attachments screenshots:


http://img408.imageshack.us/f/whatthe.png/


http://img843.imageshack.us/f/whatthev.png/

 

QJimbo spilled some tea all over the MySQL Server again. SSRG needs a non-raped server!

 

So, that's the case?

 

Permissions changes, apache not getting access, blah blah blah

 

In other words...


"I think I'll change a setting real quick..."


20 seconds later..

 

If that's also the reason why the FTP access details are taking so long, I fully understand why now.

 

Yesterday, in 21:35 (GMT + 1), the server was down. Same thing happened in about 13:00 (GMT + 1).

 

Heavy load from the Sonic Fan Remix demo. I've put it in a speed limited "box" but it's still putting a strain on the site.

 

More specifically:

 

Same thing is in Sonic Fan Remix topic, showing how big is that fangame.

 

Actually, iirc this server has a 100mbit pipe, and the graph shows it wasn't close to hitting that. What more than likely happened was hundreds of HTTP requests for the same file bogged down Apache and made it angry since each HTTP request is treated as its own child process by Apache.

 

HERE APACHE HAVE SOME ANTI-DEPRESSANTS


Naw, but make use of dem torrent instead of the HTTP download. Make it so only the torrent is there