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RPC Traffic issues? - Kage - 03-25-2014
This won't help but er yeah...
RPC has been extremely slow loading today and I constantly get 500 internal server errors.
Perhaps something is wrong? XD
RE: RPC Traffic issues? - FreelanceWizard - 03-25-2014
There's definitely something weird going on, quite possibly on the server we're on (huzzah for shared web hosting; it makes me want to move the site to my Azure VM
). I'll check with the hosting company and see if we can't get to the bottom of it.
RE: RPC Traffic issues? - FreelanceWizard - 03-25-2014
We were under a denial of service attack from a spammer, and the hosting company was nice(?) enough to put us under semi-permanent CPU restrictions as a result. I've banned the spammer's entire netblock so that shouldn't recur, and everything should be back to normal now.
RE: RPC Traffic issues? - Zhavi - 03-25-2014
Oh wow. 0o Glad it was able to be resolved and hurray for the hosting company!
RE: RPC Traffic issues? - Kage - 03-25-2014
Wooh! I was worried that the site was getting attacked which is why I posted. Glad to hear it should be mostly resolved if not completely.
RE: RPC Traffic issues? - Balhk'a Rook - 03-26-2014
I still get the error 500 when I try to access my private messages. Is anyone else experiencing that?
RE: RPC Traffic issues? - Balhk'a Rook - 03-26-2014
I can now access my private messages. Seems to be back to normal.
RE: RPC Traffic issues? - Ignacius - 03-26-2014
Wait, someone was just attacking the host, or was attacking this particular forum directly?
Who would be DDOSing a roleplaying community?
RE: RPC Traffic issues? - FreelanceWizard - 03-26-2014
It was specific to our site and from the Ukraine. It could have been an out of control, malfunctioning spam bot instead of an intentional DoS attack, but the end result was the same.
RE: RPC Traffic issues? - Zhavi - 03-27-2014
Is anyone else not able to see the wiki? When I click on it all I get are weird symbols and letters.
RE: RPC Traffic issues? - Kage - 03-27-2014
(03-27-2014, 12:02 PM)Zhavi Wrote: Is anyone else not able to see the wiki? Â When I click on it all I get are weird symbols and letters.Same for me.
I also had some errors show up occasionally last night while browsing the forums and entering threads.
RE: RPC Traffic issues? - Roen - 03-27-2014
The main wiki link on the bar gets me the page full of symbols.
I can still go to specific character's wiki pages.
RE: RPC Traffic issues? - Kage - 03-27-2014
(03-27-2014, 01:01 PM)Brynn Wrote: The main wiki link on the bar gets me the page full of symbols.*tries to go to Roen's Wiki*
I can still go to specific character's wiki pages.
*fails*
*/lalacry
RE: RPC Traffic issues? - FreelanceWizard - 03-27-2014
So, one of the things I did to help make the site more resistant to broken spambots was to turn on output compression and caching in MediaWiki. Of course, if those are turned on by your hosting provider anywhere else in the stack (Apache/nginx, PHP, etc.), hilarity such as what's being observed ensues.
I'll turn off the output compression and clear the wiki cache when I'm in a location where I can do so.
RE: RPC Traffic issues? - Zhavi - 03-27-2014
Haha, aw man, stuff is so complicated. >< Thanks for the quick fix!