Whoa! What happened here? Is this the usual 502 Bad Gateway or is it something else?
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[EDIT:] Added third screenshot after posting.
Asyn
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Daily server maintenance.
DavidR
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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…