what happened yesterday?

[Jake Bunce]

mysql errors all day. what's up?

[Kaizen]

The mysql server went down. Chris and John could not be contacted and they are the only ones with access - therefore there was a problem restarting the machines.

Thats got to be the first time that one of the vbulletin servers have gone down ;). In my memory anyway. Amazing.

[TObject]

Any idea on what’s caused the server to go down?

[Dimava]

servers need to be restarted once in a while

[JamesUS]

They've gone down plenty of times before....just not for quite as long. From what I can tell from the errors I saw in the admin area (didn't come to the forums but assume the error was the same here) this morning there were too many connections to the server over a prolonged period of time, getting the server blocked by MySQL because it thought it was being flooded/dos'd.

That is not the official answer on what happened; just what I presume happened from what I saw earlier on today. For an official answer you need to talk to Chris, James or John.

[Kaizen]

Interesting....

So what your saying is; More people than ever before were visiting the site and this activity prolonged for a long enough time for the server to think it was being attacked !

Like I said, Amazing !

[Fusion]

Well, it might very well have been an actual attack, it's not like these things aren't uncommon in this day&age. My initial thought, tho, was that the PHP4.2 they recently installed had gone to the crapper. :p :D

[Freddie Bingham]

Originally posted by Fusion
Well, it might very well have been an actual attack, it's not like these things aren't uncommon in this day&age. My initial thought, tho, was that the PHP4.2 they recently installed had gone to the crapper. :p :D This site is still running php v4.1.2

[Fusion]

Originally posted by freddie
This site is still running php v4.1.2 Yes, as I said, 'twas my first thought. :)