# Server not working tonight? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 5, 2019, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550 "2019-03-05T01:58:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/1 "2019-03-05T01:58:58Z")
I’ve been getting server errors tonight, and log-outs. Just me? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/2 "2019-03-05T02:02:34Z")
I’ve gotten a variety of errors, including that the Board is down for maintenance. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/3 "2019-03-05T02:03:35Z")
Once when I got in, it passed through the Project Shield page first - that’s Google’s DDOS defender. Related, perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/4 "2019-03-05T02:03:37Z")
I felt that. Ouch. Somebody fix this darn thing, please. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/5 "2019-03-05T02:04:08Z")
And we’re back ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/6 "2019-03-05T02:04:37Z")
It’s been flakey. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/7 "2019-03-05T02:38:31Z")
I’ve gotten timed out too. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/8 "2019-03-05T02:43:12Z")
It’s spotty at best. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/9 "2019-03-05T02:52:31Z")
Patience. It takes time to feed all of the hamsters. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/10 "2019-03-05T03:01:25Z")
Aren’t those hamsters getting old? We need new stock. ---
**Author:** ![I.Dunno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@I.Dunno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.Dunno)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/11 "2019-03-05T03:09:28Z")
Yeah, I got the down for maintenance screen maybe an hour ago. Glad it’s back. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/12 "2019-03-05T03:46:18Z")
Got some server errors about 10 minutes ago. Seems okay now. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2019, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/13 "2019-03-05T03:51:31Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Got some server errors about 10 minutes ago. Seems okay now. No, not okay now. Getting them sporadically. Like a lover who does not have much time to spare, it comes and goes. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/14 "2019-03-05T03:53:21Z")
Not sure what’s happening. Have asked management to look into it. That being said, I’m not seeing any problem right here right now but of course YMMV. Sorry about that. Jenny your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**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 5, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/15 "2019-03-05T04:08:22Z")
It’s been intermittent all evening, with varying symptoms, ranging from generic “server error” messages to an “SDMB maintenace” splash screen to a database error screen, all of which have disappeared with normal operation resuming, and then going south again and the process repeating. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/16 "2019-03-05T15:29:37Z")
Maybe coincidental, but yesterday morning was the first time in a long time that my User CP incorrectly showed no new posts in my subscribed threads. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/17 "2019-03-05T16:57:25Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I’ve gotten a variety of errors, including that the Board is down for maintenance. It was one of those times when -------- I made a post, wrote a second post, and all Hell broke loose with errors and then maintenance. I was afraid Al Gore had finally tracked me down and put a stop to me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/server-not-working-tonight/830550/18 "2019-03-05T17:10:08Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Aren’t those hamsters getting old? We need new stock. We should replace them with capybaras.