Why was ATS down for over 4 hours today?

So this entire thread is pointless.. The CIA posted bogus stories to occupy the sheeple while they conducted a 4 hour surveillance on ATS members currently logged on. Mind you, if you were logged on when the server went down, you were NEVER actually logged out. Be warned, this is serious stuff..

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
Okay... here's the really odd thing...

Our increased load (as reported in the "slow queries" log) began about the same time as these reports...
Sudden lightness in sky
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Sudden darkness in sky
www.abovetopsecret.com...

huh?

Yes I noticed this. I was reading both threads, then suddenly it went down and said internal error # ? -forgot the number. I tried googling what that error meant, and not much luck, something about it not accepting the requests to get into your site. It wasn't a usual error one sees when a site goes down.

Originally posted by selfisolated
Showed up as 503 Internal server error

HTTP Error 503 Service Unavailable Explained
That seems to explain it pretty well. Too much traffic. Ah well, it happens.

That's not the error message I got

[edit on 11-8-2008 by violet]

Originally posted by Copernicus
I deleted my u2u messages earlier today.
Sorry.

Now THAT is weird... I just finally took the time to clean out all my saved U2U's that I had on hold for future followup and just had one left to delete when the freeze happened

I also just had an issue with this thread

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Can't seem to post on it though my being there seems to bump it... weird

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
Okay... here's the really odd thing...

Our increased load (as reported in the "slow queries" log) began about the same time as these reports...
Sudden lightness in sky
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Sudden darkness in sky
www.abovetopsecret.com...

huh?

Well its obvious then... The universe just slipped through one of those pockets of weird space...

I'm sure I can find something somewhere....

And that big propane explosion in my home town of Toronto sure helped to fan the flames...

[edit on 11-8-2008 by zorgon]

Originally posted by dizziedame
My life flashed before me when I could not get on ATS this morning.

I thought it was the end of the world as we know it.

You know that is an interetesting point

What contingency plans does ATS have in case all hell breaks loose to let us know the end of the world is near?

Or will you be at the head of the line for the bunkers

I sure hope there are no additional, unwarranted services/tasks now running on the ATS servers as a result of the outage.
I hope data packet captures can reveal any unusual activity.