Quote from: virasog on Today at 07:53:18 AM

Quote from: Sexylizzy2813 on October 09, 2023, 06:20:31 AM

This topic of Bitcointalk is/was down sometimes scares me, would really like to know if this is just a minor technically issue that users shouldn't be scared of and is like a normal thing that happens each year, I don't get it? But why?

Once again the bitcointalk was down today and this outage was for a long time. I do not know exactly but when I tried to reach bitcointalk it did not open and then I tried after half an hour it still failed to load.
Just checked now and we are back up again.

I hope there was nothing to worry about Huh

The downtime today lasted for about 100 minutes. This can be easily tracked:
The last post was at 06:04:45 AM and the following and therefore first post after the downtime was written at 07:45:29 AM ~ around 100min later.

Somehow there seems to be a pattern in the downtimes as they have mostly taken place at the same time recently.
theymos has already made this point and cannot explain it at the moment. He probably assumes there is "some automated maintenance process". See quote:

Quote from: theymos on October 12, 2023, 01:10:36 PM

It was the same weird thing which caused a few hours of downtime 6-12 months ago, and I think it's what causes the few minutes of downtime people observe every few weeks. I've never been able to figure out what causes it. It looks like the network gets cut between the web server and the database for a while. It seems to always happen at around the same time, so I suppose it's probably some automated maintenance process messing something up, but I don't have anything running at this time, so I wonder if it's something in the web-host's networking infrastructure, or something like that. It's difficult to diagnose, since it happens rarely, and usually when I'm sleeping.

I'm planning on upgrading the main servers sometime in the next few months. (Just as part of standard maintenance: there will be no user-visible changes other than perhaps slightly improved speed.) Maybe that'll fix it just by virtue of moving things to different areas.

(The few minutes of downtime just now was due to me doing something, and is unrelated.)