Ask PG: Is HN experiencing server problems?

[+] pg|12 years ago|reply

It was, but things seem to be getting better. Our hacker Nick is on the case.

[+] elwell|12 years ago|reply

You can tell Nick to take his time. I'm having a very productive morning.

[+] jasonkolb|12 years ago|reply

Cool. I thought maybe it caught something from healthcare.gov servers. It's that time of year you know.

[+] selmnoo|12 years ago|reply

By the way, when you say Nick, you don't mean nickb' (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nickb) do you?

[+] mck-|12 years ago|reply

Have you identified the cause?

[+] pa5tabear|12 years ago|reply

It's awesome pg responds so quickly... I'm wondering if he gets alerted (probably) or if he's on here a lot (probably). Maybe we could DDOS his alert system with threads about pg rated movies...

And an aside- does pg have the most karma of any HN user?

[+] sp332|12 years ago|reply

Is it related to the DDoS, or a separate issue?

[+] blumentopf|12 years ago|reply

Apart from the outages, the favicon is missing since a few days.

[+] xwowsersx|12 years ago|reply

Yeah things were really rocky for me for a couple of days. Down completely yesterday and periodic "bad gateway" messages earlier today. Seems to be working better now. Was refreshing like a crack addict :/

[+] heywire|12 years ago|reply

About 5-10 minutes ago, each time I'd refresh I was logged in as another user. On a side note, what's it mean when that user's header is cyan instead of orange?

[+] kogir|12 years ago|reply

Yeah, that was a caching directive gone wrong. I think I caught it almost immediately though.

[+] spydertennis|12 years ago|reply

you can set the color of your header from your profile page

[+] theuri|12 years ago|reply

Experiencing problems as well - potentially gateway related

[+] jjoe|12 years ago|reply

CF can cause a small DoS as it does some aggressive pre-fetching. So your server needs to handle short bursts really well. Not to mention whitelist CF's IP space both in the firewall and nginx rate limiting.

[+] dublinben|12 years ago|reply

Page loads are still incredibly slow.

[+] toomuchtodo|12 years ago|reply

I'm getting full-on errors:

" Yeah, that didn't work. Try again, perhaps later?

Bad gateway

The web server reported a bad gateway error.

Ray ID: c6a435dd44307b5

Your IP address: *

Error reference number: 502

CloudFlare Location: Miami "

[+] hallowtech|12 years ago|reply

This might be unrelated, but I'm constantly being prompted for captcha even when I'm just viewing and not trying to respond. Can something be done about this?

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