# Recent server timeout errors — anyone else getting them? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 7, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514 "2019-12-07T16:13:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 34
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/661 "2020-02-29T15:19:58Z")
I just got a 504. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/662 "2020-03-02T13:34:31Z")
The announcement says the system is “verf”. Is that an acronym for something? What’s “verf”? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/663 "2020-03-02T13:58:35Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > no way a hosting company like Amazon or Google would have these issues. They could probably fix it in a few hours… The SDMB is hosted on a Google server, not a DesertNet server. ---
**Author:** ![kk\_fusion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kk_fusion/32/15276_2.png) [@kk\_fusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kk_fusion)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/664 "2020-03-02T18:10:43Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > The announcement says the system is “verf”. Is that an acronym for something? What’s “verf”? Could be German _verfahren_ (messed up) with an ellipsis at the end. There are stronger German expletives starting with _verf…_, but they don’t fit in this grammatical context. Maybe Yiddish? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/665 "2020-03-02T19:12:26Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > The announcement says the system is “verf”. Is that an acronym for something? What’s “verf”? > > Regards, > Shodan It’s a Dutch word that means “paint”. Other than that I got nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/666 "2020-03-02T19:51:29Z")
They’re back Already messed up one thread I was trying to post ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/667 "2020-03-02T19:55:32Z")
Yeah, today they’ve been…aggressive. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/668 "2020-03-02T20:00:07Z")
Second time can’t post a fucking poll. And TPTB wonder why I don’t pay for a subscription. It’s been how many days? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/669 "2020-03-02T22:06:13Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > The announcement says the system is “verf”. Is that an acronym for something? What’s “verf”? I believe it’s related to the concept of “covfefe”. If the system is covfefe, it means it’s sometimes slow and occasionally produces gateway timeout errors. If the system is verf, it means it’s so bad that it’s pretty much unusable. Happily, today system performance has been ausgezeichnet. Remember, English is an evolving language, and new words or new meanings for old words are, like, literally popping up all the time without warning – sometimes hitting us upside the head – and it’s our responsibility as linguistic descriptivists to humbly and uncritically accept it. Though I have to say, speaking for I alone, that I literally could care less. ETA: I haven’t been on today until just recently due to the intrusion of real life, so as others have reported it may have been bad earlier in the day. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/670 "2020-03-02T22:12:55Z")
And, indeed, it’s back again. I had to make three attempts just to add the ETA above. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/671 "2020-03-02T22:46:19Z")
Yeah, things seems especially turbulent this afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/672 "2020-03-03T02:21:32Z")
I continue to recommend that the PTB try disabling the edit feature. Even if we’re moving to a new platform, it’s worth trying to keep this one running relatively well until that point and all that you do if the edit removal doesn’t improve things a little bit is to reenable it. And I’ll note that it’s just a useful to render the button invisible as to turn off the feature, if one of those things is easier. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/673 "2020-03-03T03:08:23Z")
Why fool around with the edit feature when there **is** a working temporary solution that seems to last a few days, the one that was done last week. It seems that it requires manual intervention and can’t be done automatically, but it didn’t seem to take very long (at least, judging by the database downtime which was very short). ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/674 "2020-03-03T14:32:46Z")
Was any sort of tweaking done in the past few days? The site seems to be working better. I still get 5xx errors, but they seem to happen much less frequently and the outage doesn’t last as long. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/675 "2020-03-03T14:39:15Z")
Bad right now _Sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/676 "2020-03-03T19:28:44Z")
Lots of 504s today - egad! ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/677 "2020-03-03T19:46:57Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Why fool around with the edit feature when there **is** a working temporary solution that seems to last a few days, the one that was done last week. It seems that it requires manual intervention and can’t be done automatically, but it didn’t seem to take very long (at least, judging by the database downtime which was very short). Why not? ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/678 "2020-03-03T19:55:16Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Why fool around with the edit feature when there **is** a working temporary solution that seems to last a few days, the one that was done last week. It seems that it requires manual intervention and can’t be done automatically, but it didn’t seem to take very long (at least, judging by the database downtime which was very short). I was thinking that perhaps for the near term, this ‘temporary solution’ could be a twice-a-week maintenance item. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/679 "2020-03-04T02:54:25Z")
I get an error code just about every time I make a post. Far more frequently when I use my phone than with my laptop although it’s a problem with both. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514/680 "2020-03-04T15:20:03Z")
\*\*502 Server Error Error: Server Error The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds. 502 Server Error Error: Server Error The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds.\*\* (yeah, twice, just now) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514.md?page=35)