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I have been getting the following error with regular monotony of late. It happpens at varying times of the day and from both IE and Firefox. I've had it happen at home and at work. It happens going to ANY page from ANY page so it's not associated with, say, loading the front page.

Basically I click a link, the browser spins its wheels for some time and then I get:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@dslrusers.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Is it just me, or is it happening to others too? PS FWIW I uses the .com url

Yep - happening to me too, quite frequently at times.

Yep. In fact, the site is now a lot worse than it was a couple of weeks ago.

It is slow, it logs me out constantly, 404’s - you name it - very annoying, to say the least

I have been getting it a lot in the last week or two, too.

P

On average twice a day. Sometimes requires signing on again. Mainly use Firefox.

fozzie

Actually, it's been a lot better over the last three weeks than it was prior to that period, but since about Thursday of last week it's started to slow down and there have been intermittant issues, with today being worse than it has been for a while.

I logged a support issue about three hours ago.

I've been getting them no less then 20 times a day at work or at home, Dawesy has too, it's also been slow to load regardless of which connection I'm using (2mb-10mb Broadband).
(The 20 times is probably more a relfection of how long I spend browsing the forum).

I thought it was just me and my setup. Now I don't feel so bad, but it is annoying.

Bob

Same here, this is the first time I've been able to log in all day.

It would be safe to say that Dreamhost are having issues.

That said, I may have come up with a few new solutions from random thoughts I've had today that may help rid the problem long term that I'll discuss with Dad later on tonight.

Today was much like 10 times worse then usual, I look forward to your solution Leigh I hope something can be worked out, I was suffering from withdrawls something bad.

Yep, today was the worst I have seen it. I had to do work instead!!!

I haven't been able to get in since about 10:30am today. Lots of "Internal Server Errors" as well as critical php errors. I was trying with Firefox the whole time. I just tried with IE and got in immediately.

Dreamhost should change its name to nightmarehost

iGBH wrote:Yep, today was the worst I have seen it. I had to do work instead!!!

It was driving me nuts, I had images I was busting to post but couldn't get on...

It's not an IE or Firefox issue. You'd have gotten it on IE, Opera, or anything powered by Mozilla (Firefox, Netscape, Safari, etc).

I look forward to Dreamhost's reason as to why it was so bad. I have my doubts about their DNS reason they were citing on their status page.

Same here, it's been happening with increasing regularity, none more so than nearly ALL DAY TODAY!

I was almost going to ask for a complete refund of my membership cost!

If I double or nothing it, will it shut you up Patrick?

You must triple it before I shut-up!

Reschsmooth wrote:You must triple it before I shut-up!

Actually, this forum has always offerred a "double your membership fee" back guaarantee in case you're not entirely happy with the service.

yes, very annoying!... but i keep coming back. must be an addiction.

Never mind, probaby just a fluke.....



> I could not get on to the main page, but when I came into a specific forum post it worked....

Never mind, probably just a fluke.....

I concur. Almost unable to get on in the last few days. Seems better today though

must be an addiction

I reconcur (cf Nerd & pedant corner )

Good to hear in one respect - I have been having a lot of trouble accessing from work and
thought it was one of the no-fun filters!

Yes, much trouble here.

Has been great to read this thread, I thought it was just me too!

Seems much better today as long as I don't try to go to any links ...

This seems to be back again and has been pretty bad for the last day or so.

Also, Search does not appear to be working properly. I tried to search for this thread using "Internal Server Error" with "Search for all terms" selected and found no matches even though the title exactly matches.

Just submitting this was a pain...

Yeah, it's been crap for me too.

Also, I find if I click on the user name of somebody in the recent threads list, I invariably get the message, "Sorry, that user does not exist," which is clearly untrue.

Yep - has been crap for a few days now

There seems to be a server problem; our server was rebooted about three hours ago, but it's still misbehaving.

I'm waiting further feedback from HorrorHost.

At home on:

Saturday - very erratic.

Sunday - impossible, so gave up in the end.

At work today:

Very slow, but better than Saturday/Sunday.

fozzie

gstark wrote:There seems to be a server problem; our server was rebooted about three hours ago, but it's still misbehaving.

Thanks Gary.

What about the problems with Search?

Search in the current version of phpbb is a real PITA.

A - it doesn't work too well.

B - It's a resource hog because of its poor design (it indexes every word in every message) and probably isn't helping with our resource utilisation and uptime problems.

gstark wrote:I'm waiting further feedback from HorrorHost.

Don't you meant NightmareHost?

Sorry, couldn't resist...  BTW, I've noticed problems for the past couple of weeks as well. I use Firefox most of the time.


Cheers,
Andy

It’s on and off like a bloody yo-yo

Yo-yo's go up and down, Chris. You must be talking about Alfa's.

ATJ wrote:This seems to be back again and has been pretty bad for the last day or so.

Ohhh, I hadn't realised the server errors had even taken a break !!

For the last month the site has been pretty much unusable at the times of day I try and in Perth. Maybe it has been better at other times or places but my combination of ADSL/Westnet/Perth/IE/XP has taken most of the fun out of the site.

I can easily have 5 or 6 go's and still fail to make a posting or read a post.

I've identified one script that was running many instances of itself ... and it's actually not one that I'd even been thinking about.

The RSS feed has now been disabled; hopefully this will see some improvement in our performance.

... Obsolete ...

I've just had it too - first time for a while, although the site has been extremely slow to load for a few days now.

I'm actually seeing quite good performance at the moment. Much better than I've seen in a long time.

The RSS feed has now been disabled; hopefully this will see some improvement in our performance.

Are you sure. I have the RSS feed as a tool bar & it seems to be working - it has meaningful headers.

EDIT. I have removed it now.

gstark wrote:I'm actually seeing quite good performance at the moment. Much better than I've seen in a long time.

I am seeing the same thing, too. No errors and much faster.

This is the first time in two days I have been able to access the site

I have only been a member for a few weeks and pretty much ever since I was accessing the site it was a nightmare. I stuck with it for about a week and then stopped trying and went to other sites but couldn't help myself and continued trying as the site is full of great info and it is great to have a mainly Aust user base as it gives me more ideas and locations to visit. I agree now that at least today it seems fine, fingers crossed all problems are fixed.

They're not.

Nnnnsic wrote:Yo-yo's go up and down, Chris.

I once heard of a server called yoyo. It was rather unreliable: up, down, up, down... hence its name.

Excepting Yo Yo Ma

gstark wrote:The RSS feed has now been disabled; hopefully this will see some improvement in our performance.

any idea if/when this will be re-activated, I miss it

myarhidia wrote:

gstark wrote:The RSS feed has now been disabled; hopefully this will see some improvement in our performance.

any idea if/when this will be re-activated, I miss it

It won't be within the next few days; sorry.

I want to assess the site's performance without this feature before I look at reinstating it.

And before I reinstate it, I'm going to need to look at the code and refine it, because it does seem to have been causing us some performance issues. As useful as I know this is, the primary function here is the website anf forums, and I need to make sure that they're running fine.

If they're not, there's nothing for the RSS feeds anyway.

In looking at the code, I will want to assess whether I can maybe place some stuff into an intermediate table and maybe run the RSS from that.

HTH.