Database error.
10-06-24 | 01:08 PM
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Database error.
I’m getting this a lot these past few weeks. Seems the only way to get rid of it is to close and reopen Bikeforums.net.
10-06-24 | 01:20 PM
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You're not alone. I usually have to count to 10 before trying again.
This is also being discussed here: Site not responsive/slow
This is also being discussed here: Site not responsive/slow
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10-06-24 | 01:28 PM
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yep, have had the same problem, reported a week or so ago.
Edit: More "database errors" today 10/9, refresh did not work, same problem on 2 different computers/operating systems
Edit: More "database errors" today 10/9, refresh did not work, same problem on 2 different computers/operating systems
Last edited by SoCaled; 10-09-24 at 11:10 AM.
01-21-25 | 04:17 PM
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This "Database error" problem has resurfaced. Got this multiple times today on two different computers/browsers. Refresh did not do anything. eventually started working again, then didn't, then did again
01-21-25 | 08:00 PM
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01-22-25 | 06:18 AM
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01-22-25 | 11:14 AM
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Again this morning, went down 8:50-ish just started working again. Same as before, on 2 different computers/operating systems/browsers.
01-22-25 | 11:16 AM
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Looking into this now.
01-22-25 | 12:10 PM
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Just happened again, only down for a few minutes this time
Edit: 12:08 pm: down more than up today, site works for 20 min then down for 20min in a constant cycle
Edit: 12:08 pm: down more than up today, site works for 20 min then down for 20min in a constant cycle
Last edited by SoCaled; 01-22-25 at 02:08 PM.
01-22-25 | 12:21 PM
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01-22-25 | 05:11 PM
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It should be all good now. It was due to some site crawlers we were getting so tech made some changes. If it doesn't work again like how it did this morning, I guess we will all figure that out pretty quickly... 
01-22-25 | 07:07 PM
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01-22-25 | 08:31 PM
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01-22-25 | 08:33 PM
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01-23-25 | 04:17 AM
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Worst ever day for this. Site showed down on downdetector. Off for hours on end, I think over 5 hours early this morning. Even once back up, frequently went down again. Curious if this is due to external site attacks, overwhelmed with spam posts, or internal software or hardware issues or external web support? *No complaints*, I'm sure the staff are pedaling as hard as they can, just wondering. EDIT: Ah, I see brief tech note above about this. Good wishes your way. (Looks up web crawler...)
From wiki, bold emphasis mine:
From search earlier today of <bikeforums database error> that showed beginning, but would not fully display due to website down; Now can be read in full. This from post in 2007, bold emphasis mine:
From wiki, bold emphasis mine:
Web search engines and some other websites use Web crawling or spidering software to update their web content or indices of other sites' web content. Web crawlers copy pages for processing by a search engine, which indexes the downloaded pages so that users can search more efficiently.
Crawlers consume resources on visited systems and often visit sites unprompted. Issues of schedule, load, and "politeness" come into play when large collections of pages are accessed. Mechanisms exist for public sites not wishing to be crawled to make this known to the crawling agent. For example, including a
file can request bots to index only parts of a website, or nothing at all.
Crawlers consume resources on visited systems and often visit sites unprompted. Issues of schedule, load, and "politeness" come into play when large collections of pages are accessed. Mechanisms exist for public sites not wishing to be crawled to make this known to the crawling agent. For example, including a
Code:
robots.txt
Just a quick technical update.
The database errors and overall slowness we experienced was cause by a highly aggressive (probably malicious) spider that was not interested in maintaining a courteous frequency of visits to BikeForums. This caused one of our three web servers to loose connection to the database and resulted in displaying db errors.
We have made some tweaks to our server monitoring which will enable us to resolve the issue much quicker in the future. Thank you for expressing your concern and your patience while we worked the issue out.
The database errors and overall slowness we experienced was cause by a highly aggressive (probably malicious) spider that was not interested in maintaining a courteous frequency of visits to BikeForums. This caused one of our three web servers to loose connection to the database and resulted in displaying db errors.
We have made some tweaks to our server monitoring which will enable us to resolve the issue much quicker in the future. Thank you for expressing your concern and your patience while we worked the issue out.
Last edited by Duragrouch; 01-23-25 at 04:40 AM.
01-23-25 | 07:09 AM
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Another site I visit had the same problems. They went to logged in users only for the fix.
01-23-25 | 07:29 AM
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Still happening this morning
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01-23-25 | 09:26 AM
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This "attack" by these "web crawlers" is made worse because they don't respect robots.txt according to the admin at the other site I mentioned above.
They don't so much crawl as scrape. They are sucking down all the data and all the bandwidth.
They don't so much crawl as scrape. They are sucking down all the data and all the bandwidth.