# Getting 'Internal Server Error 500' a lot?

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**Created:** [September 9, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-internal-server-error-500-a-lot/668445 "2013-09-09T21:58:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-internal-server-error-500-a-lot/668445/1 "2013-09-09T21:58:58Z")

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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;

> [@](#):
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> Internal Server Error
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> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
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> Please contact the server administrator, [sysadmin-straightdope@desert.net](mailto: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.
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> More information about this error may be available in the server error log.  
> Apache/2 Server at [boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com) Port 80

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

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**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-internal-server-error-500-a-lot/668445/2 "2013-09-09T22:05:46Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-internal-server-error-500-a-lot/668445/3 "2013-09-10T01:11:28Z")

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> [@Mr.Kobayashi](#):
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> 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;
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> Refreshing a few times gets rid of it, but is it a cause for concern?

I get that from time to time too.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-internal-server-error-500-a-lot/668445/4 "2013-09-10T06:26:48Z")

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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.