Site down recently?

[brownsfan019 17]

James,

Are you aware of the site having database issues recently? Seems like it's happening more often again, at least on my end. I think we had some connection issues during the upgrades and such, but it's recurring again.

 

FYI.

 

[Blu-Ray 10]

I had the same trouble last night as well, but seems to be okay today

 

Cheers

 

Blu-Ray

[walterw 10]

me too... :hmmmm:

[Nick1984 10]

its happened to me a few times over the last few days.

[Soultrader 12]

Sorry for the late reply. I didnt realize this thread till now. The problem lately has been a massive spam attack on my email account which is placed on the same server as the website. I had the hosting crew spend the entire week fixing this problem and things should run smoother now.

 

What happened was that my email account became over 10 gigs full of spam which crashed the database. I dont think this should happen anymore.

 

Also please note that once a day for approx 10-20 minutes I run an automatic backup on the database. This will cause the site to slow down slightly during this time.

 

Sorry about the errors... I am no IT guy so have a hard time fixing things.