Ask PG: Is HN experiencing server problems?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6654789

by mck- • 13 years ago

123 68 13 years ago

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Many Bad Gateway and Server errors today -- any reasons why?

pg3• 13 years ago

It was, but things seem to be getting better. Our hacker Nick is on the case.

mck-2• 13 years ago

Have you identified the cause?

pg3• 13 years ago

Still investigating, but Nick just turned off the site for non logged-in users to take the load off the system while we try to figure out what's going on.

sp3322• 13 years ago

Is it related to the DDoS, or a separate issue?

pg3• 13 years ago

It's not related so far as we can tell.

pa5tabear2• 13 years ago

It's awesome pg responds so quickly... I'm wondering if he gets alerted (probably) or if he's on here a lot (probably). Maybe we could DDOS his alert system with threads about pg rated movies...

And an aside- does pg have the most karma of any HN user?

sp3322• 13 years ago

pg has 147,000+ karma https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg and the top of the leaderboard is tptacek with 159,000+ https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

blumentopf• 13 years ago

Apart from the outages, the favicon is missing since a few days.

toomuchtodo2• 13 years ago

Looks fine to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/favicon.ico

elwell• 13 years ago

You can tell Nick to take his time. I'm having a very productive morning.

fournm• 13 years ago

So many defects knocked out this week during the HN issues. I don't know whether to be glad or what.

myang• 13 years ago

yeah national average productivity jumped up by 50%

davidedicillo• 13 years ago

Obviously you are not ;)

TeMPOraL2• 13 years ago

Hell yeah, Wednesday with HN down was my most productive day this week.

jasonkolb• 13 years ago

Cool. I thought maybe it caught something from healthcare.gov servers. It's that time of year you know.

selmnoo2• 13 years ago

By the way, when you say Nick, you don't mean nickb' (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nickb) do you?

neuro• 13 years ago

I hope it's him, I wonder what happened to him.

justhw• 13 years ago

It's kogir, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kogir

dublinben• 13 years ago

Page loads are still incredibly slow.

toomuchtodo2• 13 years ago

I'm getting full-on errors:

" Yeah, that didn't work. Try again, perhaps later?

Bad gateway

The web server reported a bad gateway error.

Ray ID: c6a435dd44307b5

Your IP address: *

Error reference number: 502

CloudFlare Location: Miami "

randallsquared• 13 years ago

I think I've spotted the problem: you have an asterisk instead of an IP address. :|

mVChr• 13 years ago

I'm getting similar:

Ray ID: c6aa828c05b07d9 Your IP address: [redacted] Error reference number: 502 CloudFlare Location: Los Angeles

akg_67• 13 years ago

Same error here in Seattle

Yeah, that didn't work. Try again, perhaps later?

Bad gateway

The web server reported a bad gateway error.

Ray ID: c6aad60831a051a Your IP address: <redacted> Error reference number: 502 CloudFlare Location: Seattle

theuri• 13 years ago

Experiencing problems as well - potentially gateway related

xwowsersx• 13 years ago

Yeah things were really rocky for me for a couple of days. Down completely yesterday and periodic "bad gateway" messages earlier today. Seems to be working better now. Was refreshing like a crack addict :/

hallowtech4• 13 years ago

This might be unrelated, but I'm constantly being prompted for captcha even when I'm just viewing and not trying to respond. Can something be done about this?

TeMPOraL2• 13 years ago

We have captchas on HN?

krapp2• 13 years ago

Might be a cloudflare thing.

jjoe• 13 years ago

CF can cause a small DoS as it does some aggressive pre-fetching. So your server needs to handle short bursts really well. Not to mention whitelist CF's IP space both in the firewall and nginx rate limiting.

heywire3• 13 years ago

About 5-10 minutes ago, each time I'd refresh I was logged in as another user. On a side note, what's it mean when that user's header is cyan instead of orange?

kogir• 13 years ago

Yeah, that was a caching directive gone wrong. I think I caught it almost immediately though.

spydertennis• 13 years ago

you can set the color of your header from your profile page

heywire3• 13 years ago

There must be a threshold for that, I don't have that setting...

pc862• 13 years ago

adv0r it is taking a long time to load because you are hell banned.

sjbr• 13 years ago

Yesterday, it was offline most of the day for me.

Ask PG: Is HN experiencing server problems?

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