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songfight.org offline (503)

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songfight.org offline (503 errors) at 8:59pm PST, still offline at this writing. East-coast midnight server maintenance, quota limit, or something more sinister?
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Nevermind, it's back. Ignore me; I'm a tech guy and prone to pointing out server outages.
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Post by fluffy »

503 would probably be an underlying thing with the shared server Song Fight is hosted from.
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Post by rone rivendale »

I saw the same error around the same time, heh.
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I've had several fairly long stretches of 503 over the last couple days, FYI
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Post by pegor »

me too 1/2/07 2200ish pst
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Post by mico saudad »

maybe I'm logging too much time on the boards, but I'm now getting the 503 error about 10% of the time I try to view...
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I have yet to replicate this.
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Post by Magnetbox »

It's been happening pretty regularly to me all day today. I think I've only seen the front page 10% of the time.

All I see is:
Service Temporarily Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
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Ok, i just saw this a minute ago. Submitting support ticket.

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Post by Spud »

I saw it, and hit reload several times. No dice.

Then I went to songfight.net, no problem, and clicked over to the main page at songfight.org. Voila. Go figure.

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Post by jack »

yeah, maybe for the past 3-4 days now it's been on and off with no consistency. always the 503 error.
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Post by mico saudad »

usually it prevents me from accessing any part of the web site but today:
9:38pm pst - 503 when trying to access the 'submit art' link
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Post by fluffy »

Shadowy Puppetmaster told me to pass on word that there was a massive amount of stuff happening from what he(?) termed "HOTLINKING HERETICS" and that said HERETICS have been, in his words, ELIMINATED.

The site seems to be back up now in any case.

(Dreamhost has some stuff which is intended to temporarily shut down a site when it's detecting a DDoS, and apparently this elimination of the HERETICS has removed that condition from the server. In this case it's a good thing since it saves the fightmasters from a huge bandwidth bill due to the recent surge in mp3 search engines and referral spammers who don't care that they're wasting peoples' bandwidth without actually doing anything useful for anyone.)
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THAT WAS NOT TO BE PASSED ALONG BY THE FLUFFY HERETIC. IT WAS STATED TO THE HERETIC IN THE STRICTEST CONFIDENCE BECAUSE THEY KEPT ON WANTING TO "HELP."

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

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Post by jb »

I received this error again today, but it was fairly soon after I tried recreating the httpd_conf file as suggested in the Dreamhost user forum. I haven't seen the error since, but that may indicate nothing. Please continue to post here if you see this error.

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Post by Billy's Little Trip »

I haven't had any problems, and I check in several times a day. But at my site where I post the new fight each week, several people said they also had some issues logging on. Maybe there are different servers for different parts of the States? No one from So Cali seems to be having any problems....that I know of.
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