Monday Night Downtime

My favourite kind of fix

 

Seems to be working somewhat better now, but for example I just tried searching the USA Men: News & Analysis forum for "beasley". I checked the boxes for 'Search titles only', 'Search this forum only', and 'Display results as threads'.

Then the result was: 'No results found.'

Or can it actually be possible that that forum's archive has no threads in with "beasley" in the title? (seems hard to believe...)

 

I replicated your search and also got no results. Then I went to USA Men (not USA Men: News & Analysis like you) and sorted the topics by name:

http://forums.bigsoccer.com/forums/usa-men.131/page-63?order=title&direction=asc
http://forums.bigsoccer.com/forums/usa-men.131/page-64?order=title&direction=asc

Those two sites combined to find 36 topics starting with Beasley, excluding incorrect spellings of his name and excluding "Beasley's" since a search for Beasley wouldn't find them. In USA Men: News & Analysis:

http://forums.bigsoccer.com/forums/usa-men-news-analysis.180/page-56?order=title&direction=asc
http://forums.bigsoccer.com/forums/usa-men-news-analysis.180/page-57?order=title&direction=asc

Those two sites combined to find 35 topics starting with Beasley, again excluding incorrect spellings of his name and excluding "Beasley's" since a search for Beasley wouldn't find them.

 

Hmm, it appears that the "Display Results as Threads" is affecting things. Unchecking that and lots of results come back.

I'll do some more digging to see what's up, seems like a bug in the software. May need to file a report for it.

 

Anyone else occasionally seeing page load errors from Cloud Flare, saying the connection to Cloud Flare is good, but not the connection to Big Soccer? (Sorry I did not take down the text verbatim.)

Edit: some info:


Website is offline
No cached version of this page is available.

Error 520 Ray ID: 131fb1fe9ec20103
Web server is returning an unknown error

[Then I get a diagram (L to R):]

Code:

You         Dallas           forums.bigsoccer.com
Browser <-> CloudFlare <->  Host
Working      Working           Error

What happened?

There is an unknown connection issue between CloudFlare and the origin web server. As a result, the web page can not be displayed.


What can I do?

If you are a visitor of this website:
Please try again in a few minutes.


If you are the owner of this website:
There is an issue between CloudFlare's cache and your origin web server. CloudFlare monitors for these errors and automatically investigates the cause. To help support the investigation, you can pull the corresponding error log from your web server and submit it our support team. Please include the Ray ID (which is at the bottom of this error page). Additional troubleshooting resources.

 

Can you guys fix redirects to some of the old links, for example here
http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/the-100-greatest-x-of-all-time-discussion-thread.1245347/

 

Ah, those are some old redirects

They should be fixed.

Cheers,

 

Hmm, this shouldn't be a regular occurrence. Possibly a blip if I'm on the server doing a bit a maintenance. If it keeps happening, please let me know.

Cheers,

 

It's nice that tweets can more easily be embedded by using the media button now, but there are still issues with quotes that include embedded tweets having a limited size so not all media objects in the tweet can be seen.

 

I'm getting a 520 error repeatedly on my iPad. Too technically challenged to fully explain.

 

I have seen several of these as well. Two within the last few minutes.

 

@DanV

Yeah, something is definitely wrong. Tons of 520, website offline errors.

 

Hmm, our servers are not going offline at all. And no load spikes to speak of. Nor have any of our monitors triggered this error.

Looking into that error code, this appears to be related to the size of the header that the forum responds with, which Cloud Flare doesn't like. Since our monitors aren't triggering it, I suspect its related to the forum's cookies.

I'm still digging into it, seeing if I can find a way to recreate it.

The next time it happens can you post your RayID that appears on the error page?

 

I got a 522. Am I special?

Website is offline

No cached version of this page is available.

Error 522 Ray ID: 13456a7843d7084a
Connection timed out
You
Browser
Working
Ashburn
CloudFlare
Working
forums.bigsoccer.com
Host
Error
What happened?
The initial connection between CloudFlare's network and the origin web server timed out. As a result, the web page can not be displayed.

What can I do?
If you're a visitor of this website:
Please try again in a few minutes.

If you're the owner of this website:
Contact your hosting provider letting them know your web server is not completing requests. An Error 522 means that the request was able to connect to your web server, but that the request didn't finish. The most likely cause is that something on your server is hogging resources. Additional troubleshooting information here.

CloudFlare Ray ID: 13456a7843d7084a • Your IP: • Help • Performance & security by CloudFlare

 

In addition to the CloudFlare errors, I have been getting this error seemingly at random when clicking on threads or forums:


Error
Unfortunately there was an error while trying to retrieve the page you are looking for.

Click here to try again.

 

A plugin is misbehaving right now, which is what's causing all the issues tonight.

I'm slapping it around to get it inline.

 

Ok, plugin is back to running smoothly again. Servers are much happier.

Couple more performance tweaks in place now too to handle things like this a big more gracefully.

Cheers,

 

Fixed

Twitter plugin had a max on it's height when quoted.

 

There still seems to be a problem. For example, in this post the tweets show up at first, then when the image loads it shows incomplete (and on top of the text). I'm running Firefox on Windows.