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Seriously, Ive gotten two Error 500 (Internal Server) a bunch of 404's, Sites not Found, and about a billion Invalid Links, all on legitimate pages, all fixed by hitting 'refresh' a lot.
Normally Jolt works fairly well for me, I get a few invalid link errors and it still persists in signing me out after long posts, but its usualy fairly good.
But if this keeps up, Im gonna have to make my own blood NS forum :P

Seems much better now, but it was horrible just an hour ago.

Yeah, I agree. I also get invalid link, no page found, 404, everything. When I click Forum, it sometimes goes slow, and then it takes a long time, etc. I'm trying to remember if this has happened before the big server crash or whatever it was. Maybe we could split the forum. Everything game-related in one forum, and General Discussion and NS 2 on another.

How ironic is this: I press reply, and I get an invalid link message.

Im getting an Error 500 almost every time I hit 'reply' now.
This is getting annoying >_<

There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

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Yes, it was really bad just a little bit earlier. I think Jolt is collapsing under the weight of NS, what with the NS massive glitch, the Database Errors fiasco, and the Invalid Thread Catastrophe. The world is coming to an end.

What forum will be next to hold us???

~Czardas, Supreme(ly Worried) Ruler of the Universe

yeah it's really bad, I've been having to click almost every link twice.

I was locked out of the forums for about six hours today - I started wondering if I'd been thrown out again, this time for good.

I know everybody says, 'well if you think Jolt sucks, count yourself lucky you weren't around pre-Jolt, 'cause that reeeally sucked', but - honestly - I think Jolt bites. No matter what the the pre-Jolt days were like.

I was around every now and then in the Pre-Jolt era...it was bad, but not this bad.
The worst I had was having to wait five minutes for pages to load sometimes, and one or two hour long lock-outs if it was REALLY bad.
I wonder if we can crash the Jolt server if we all jump up and down really quickly...

I was locked out of the forums for about six hours today - I started wondering if I'd been thrown out again, this time for good.

I know everybody says, 'well if you think Jolt sucks, count yourself lucky you weren't around pre-Jolt, 'cause that reeeally sucked', but - honestly - I think Jolt bites. No matter what the the pre-Jolt days were like.Hey, I was too. I got a different error every time I tried clicking on the same link. I was worried if I'd accidentally flamed, spammed, or posted something I shouldn't have.

~Czardas, Formerly Worried Ruler of the Universe

Yah, jolt's buggin me too :(

I was locked out of the forums for about six hours today - I started wondering if I'd been thrown out again, this time for good.

I know everybody says, 'well if you think Jolt sucks, count yourself lucky you weren't around pre-Jolt, 'cause that reeeally sucked', but - honestly - I think Jolt bites. No matter what the the pre-Jolt days were like.

Nah, today has been old-server bad.

I was around every now and then in the Pre-Jolt era...it was bad, but not this bad.
The worst I had was having to wait five minutes for pages to load sometimes, and one or two hour long lock-outs if it was REALLY bad.
I wonder if we can crash the Jolt server if we all jump up and down really quickly...No, let's all post at exactly the same time. When 2 people post at the same time, it takes 22 seconds longer to load the page. When 200,000 post, it would take 2,200,000 seconds = 45,000 minutes = almost a year. Fortunately that doesn't happen very often. But if it did the servers would really crash.

~Czardas, Supreme(ly Diabolical) Ruler of the Universe

It's not just you, Jolt wasn't working at all for me for most of today.

Unofficial opinion:

There aren't enough NS users to cause this much of a problem, and it most likely wouldn't manifest in the same way for most of the day. This is a server load issue, and I doubt seriously that NSers are the principla culprits. Jolt admins have mentioned web-crawler bots before, and I'm betting it's them or some other loading factor.

Unofficial opinion:

There aren't enough NS users to cause this much of a problem, and it most likely wouldn't manifest in the same way for most of the day. This is a server load issue, and I doubt seriously that NSers are the principla culprits. Jolt admins have mentioned web-crawler bots before, and I'm betting it's them or some other loading factor.

If it were NS, this problem would have manifested itself much earlier, I would suspect. We've been here for close to a year now. It has to be a relatively recent development.

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, admin@jolt.co.uk and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.



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Apache/1.3.33 Server at nsforums.jolt.co.uk Port 80

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In trying to make ONE post..I think I got six error messages. At least. That's been the worst,so far, but yes..lately it has seemed to have gotten buggier.

Seriously, Ive gotten two Error 500 (Internal Server) a bunch of 404's, Sites not Found, and about a billion Invalid Links, all on legitimate pages, all fixed by hitting 'refresh' a lot.
Normally Jolt works fairly well for me, I get a few invalid link errors and it still persists in signing me out after long posts, but its usualy fairly good.
But if this keeps up, Im gonna have to make my own blood NS forum :P
i got errors the first 3 times i tried to click on JUST this thread!

Is it just me, or is Jolt buggier than usual?

Buggier than a Warwickshire shit-house. I had to go three hours without posting a smartass remark.

AH! Fix the server! This is the most annoying thing ever!

Yeah. Big fonts in General will cause Jolt admins to resolve the issue. Good suggestion.

It's a database thing. Kinda looks to me like when it's not crashing, the problem is a null error, or possible not finding the database instance. But then again they use mySql, so instance isn't important, so the problem has to lie with vBulletin.

Given all the 404 and Not Found errors, I think something external is either overloading the site or the local DNS servers that point to the site. It might even be a DDoS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ddos) attack, and it doesn't even have to be focused on Jolt forums to be disruptive.

Everybody whines "FIX THE SERVER", but in all probablility it is generated from outside rather than inside. Give it a rest, ok?

Bring back the old forums!!!

Today and yesterday there were just a few problems, nothing approaching the old server bad period we went through a few weeks ago.

It's my fault. I gave the gerbil too much cheese and it took a nap. Sorry, guys.

Today and yesterday there were just a few problems, nothing approaching the old server bad period we went through a few weeks ago.
Weeks? Considering the amount of time some of us spend on NS, weeks are more like YEARS here. :D

*In crotchety old man voice*
Why, back in my day, many years ago...

:D

They ought to just wipe out and restart the whole NS forum. its not like anyone cares what was said a week ago on some random thread.

:eek: what about all the rp's, factbooks, histories etc????

It actually just happened as I tried to reply to this thread. It's been happening since last night, I just figured it was something to do with the fact I have to use dial-up on my laptop.

I suppose the fact that we're able to post here to whine about it shows it's not as bad as the old server.

my internet and jolt are still acting bitchy. Actually, its just jolt. About 80% of the time, I'm getting errors coming on screen.


It took me 40 mins just to skip through 3 threads.

ääääöööörrr!!!! :headbang:
Yes it is. And I'm 100% sure that this one goes through....Missed only 3 long messages today.

It's really sucked today. I was locked out for hours, The last couple of days I've gotten a lot of error messages and horrid lag time. But on the upside I actually got some sleep. :D

It's actually gotten very much better the past hour or two.

It's actually gotten very much better the past hour or two.


It's with no small amount of irony that I report it took six attempts to reply to your post.

Edit: No, make that seven.

Edit again: Would you believe eight?

It's with no small amount of irony that I report it took six attempts to reply to your post.

Edit: No, make that seven.

Edit again: Would you believe eight?

Haha, figures.

I haven't had a problem in a good 30 minutes. :)

It's still buggy as a bait box for me.

Hahaa, now it works perfectly for me but not for anyone else.
It seems like I'm the only one online at the moment
I should take some advance of this... *evil grin*

Couldn't follow the forum link from my nation for a couple of hours. Seems to be working now though. *knocks on wood*

There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

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I was able to get on very briefly yesterday morning, and then I got the message you posted above for the rest of the day. Very annoying.

I only ever get the dreaded "database" error, (which I have a translation (http://thecomputerman.dyndns.biz/tekania/jolt.html) of).

Never have gotten a 50x or 40x error from jolt, but then again, I'm on a 10Mb SDSL connection.

Lol. Great translation. The knocking didn't seem to do much good.

It's still terrible for me. It's really annoying, because when I get into discussions in threads people are going to think I've run away because I can't answer their superior logic power, when in fact the reason I haven't replied is because I can't get on the board.

Hmm... I second Club House's idea. If I was an admin, I would delete everything in General at least.

General makes up what? 43% of the posts in NS?

Yeah, that would take off some of the load at least. I think.

But then again, I'm nobody. So pay no heed to this message.

Move on... o.O

It has kind of sucked this morning. I think it must be all the new H1-B visa software guys they get from India. If they'd just hire a couple Georgia Tech grads, it would all work as smoothly as Earthlink/Mindspring does.

Weeks? Considering the amount of time some of us spend on NS, weeks are more like YEARS here. :D

*In crotchety old man voice*
Why, back in my day, many years ago...

:D

Forgetful in our old age, are we? That period in April where even old timers beyond my age (originally August 2003) questioned Jolt.

Quit your whining guys! I've gotten exactly 3 errors in the last 48 hours. That ain't nothing compared to what it was a month ago. That was at least comperable to the bad old days.