Getting 'Internal Server Error 500' a lot?

[Mr.Kobayashi]

Dunno if it’s just me, but recently I’ve been getting this message a lot when trying to access either forums or individual threads;

Internal Server Error

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

Please contact the server administrator, sysadmin-straightdope@desert.net 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.
Apache/2 Server at boards.straightdope.com Port 80

Refreshing a few times gets rid of it, but is it a cause for concern?

[picker]

I get
"408 Request Time-out

Your browser didn’t send a complete request in time."

But considering it only happens here, it’s probably not the browser.

[Siam_Sam]

@Mr.Kobayashi

Dunno if it’s just me, but recently I’ve been getting this message a lot when trying to access either forums or individual threads;

Refreshing a few times gets rid of it, but is it a cause for concern?

I get that from time to time too.

[engineer_comp_geek]

It’s a problem on the SDMB side. It’s not a problem with your computer or browser. The folks in charge of the [del]hamsters[/del] servers are aware of the performance problems that the SDMB has been having lately and are looking into it.