ATS under attack ?? 503 Service Unavailable .. been happening quite often lately

All other sites runs fine my internet is fast
but lately it has been very slow with ATS ..
and sometime i get a blank page with

503 Service Unavailable
No server is available to handle this request.

Can anyone explain whats happening .. very odd
do ATS run some updates at this time ??

Me too

second line

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I doubt It's some sort of attack but yeah, I'm getting the same thing as you. It seems to happen every now and then so I'm confident It's nothing to worry about. I'm sure thing's will be back to normal again very soon.

me too started today

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It's happening to me too. I just got a 508 Bad Gateway notice.

I have just put the same question up before I read this. Every other website is ok except here......

Same thing happening here!

I've been seeing it myself...

As well... I'm on a T1 line, and I'm timing out among other errors.

Speedtest and all the other usual sites I visit are normal...

I'm sure SkepticOverlord will update when he can analyze the issue.

SkepticSignal has been activated...

i guess problem resolved

Temporary issue, still troubleshooting the cause. For now, only logged-in members can get to the forum areas.

I just encountered the same thing about 5 minutes ago..also running slow.

Not saying this is the issue, but the error code is something often seen in overloaded servers or DDoS attacks..

Source

Regarding the downtime, much of the time we either got no response at all from their web server(s) or it responded with an HTTP error 503 (service unavailable), which could indicate an overloaded server. On occasion the connection also timed out (we will count a site as down if we cannot load it within 30 seconds). All of these “symptoms” would be in line with what can happen during a DDoS attack.

It is a bad drive in their raid array, that the symptoms, slow down , then pop.
The drive goes offline. In saying that though Raid 5 should stay up, with some performance loss.

Who knows I'm sure their IT know what they are doing.

I was having the same problem the last couple of days. But today I haven't had any problems.

Knock on wood


Crap I jinxed myself. As soon as I posted this, it happened!

Gods - I tried to post a reply to a thread - not done that in ages - and I thought - I broke it!

LOL

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
Temporary issue, still troubleshooting the cause. For now, only logged-in members can get to the forum areas.

Just repeating this because it seems people are missing it.

It is just a site issue. The error page that showed up even said that it was not hackers and the site was not under attack

It also said that saying that will not stop people from speculating.

I just got some weird error page if that counts with the pic of men in black

Glad to see you back up, had another panic attack like the sopa message

Originally posted by gimme_some_truth

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
Temporary issue, still troubleshooting the cause. For now, only logged-in members can get to the forum areas.

Just repeating this because it seems people are missing it.

It is just a site issue. The error page that showed up even said that it was not hackers and the site was not under attack

It also said that saying that will not stop people from speculating.

Hey GST happy new yrs

You cant stop a conspiracy on a conspiracy site
SÖ probably want to avoid panic .. its normal
a bad harddrive is the best excuse ahah
just kidding

Servers are probably rushing .. it is rush hours for ATS

Did anyone potentially consider that maintanance is being done on the system. Just because it is the internet does not mean it works 100% of the time all time.

I know it sounds crazy but sometimes the most logical and simplest answer is indeed the right answer.

If you hear hoof beats think horse not zebra.

Originally posted by Ben81
Hey GST

happy new yrs

Happy New year buddy

Well, I thought everything was normal. Then I decided it was a plane crash.

And then there is this...