Site downtime

[Fresnel]

I don't know if this is just me but I wasn't able to access the website for pretty much the entire day. It was working fine in the morning around <10 but after that I couldn't access it until just now.

Yeah, I was definitely having this same problem. And it wasn't like the old one, where it was just a generic 404 error, the BBS itself was returning a traffic overload error code.

Connection Problems

Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.

[Sstfreek]

^ this was exactly what happended to me.

[spazz]

Happened earlier today twice, with 10 minutes in between at about 3:20

i was getting this same message for about 4 hours today. i got cox internet, and useing internet explorer. same problem on my cricket phone and when birdman was at my house today he got the same message on his phone, although i dont know what service he has.

[CryWulf]

Today, the site was down from about 3pm till about 5 minutes ago. It would say something like the server could not be found. It's exactly what the picture above me is.

[Bambi-troopers]

Ignore. Oops. Sry

[Shadow]

AA is hosted by DreamHost.  If I'm not mistaken, their database servers and web servers are separate from each other, much like GoDaddy.  It's likely that the shared database server was experiencing DoS attacks of some sort or it could have just had other issues.  I noticed that a few other sites I frequent (XDA) were having traffic & database issues as well today.

[XavierMace]

No, Dreamhost is just fucking retarded.  Based on the email that went out they decided to wait to replace a Raid Controller battery until they had a drive failure as well.

[Shadow]

No, Dreamhost is just fucking retarded.  Based on the email that went out they decided to wait to replace a Raid Controller battery until they had a drive failure as well.

Oh that's just wonderful.