avast! Forum Down?

Whoa! What happened here? Is this the usual 502 Bad Gateway or is it something else?

Screenshots attached:

[EDIT:] Added third screenshot after posting.

Daily server maintenance.

Well the third image pretty well answers your own question. Though server backup adds to the load it shouldn’t take it down to do the backup.

Often when there is a rash of 405 and 402 errors and and searches that you do or high intensity actions, such as using the ‘Show unread posts since last visit.’ link slows it to a crawl. At times like this it can result in the forum not being available.

Fortunately I was tucked up in bed whilst all of this was going on.

@ Asyn and DavidR,

Thanks.

Noted at the time there was a gap of more than an hour between posts anywhere on the board, and also noted that some notified replies were reposted back under my account, tho. So, possibly a rare instance of a last known good backup being restored, as well as having the 502 error seeming to last forever, seemed to be going on here. A spammer was engaging in activity w/some advanced tools here a little while before all this started, so…