fixed Cloudflare Error 524 and site going up 'n' down

[LogicalDrm]

So as you probably are aware, site is going up and down whole morning (here). Noticed this since 5am UTC. It's giving me Error 524, Firefox addon keeps going up and down, I can partially load the site but its really slow. Etc. etc.

[DarkEnergy]

It's been on and off since last night. Not sure if it's a ddos or too many people trying to get on. I mean, they should have figured there would be much higher than normal forum traffic with a giveaway. RIP the forums for now.

[Redliquid]

16 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

So as you probably are aware, site is going up and down whole morning (here). Noticed this since 5am UTC. It's giving me Error 524, Firefox addon keeps going up and down, I can partially load the site but its really slow. Etc. etc.

Do we know what caused this issue? Overload from the give-away?

[colonel_mortis]

9 hours ago, Redliquid said:

Do we know what caused this issue? Overload from the give-away?

As far as we can tell, overload from the giveaway resulted in a file to become corrupted, which then resulted in the javascript not working and massively increased load on the server for every request. It took so long to resolve partly because it was not at all clear that the corrupt file was at fault, and partly because fixing the file was difficult because it was being set back to the invalid state every time we tried to fix it.

[samiscool51]

10 hours ago, colonel_mortis said:

As far as we can tell, overload from the giveaway resulted in a file to become corrupted, which then resulted in the javascript not working and massively increased load on the server for every request. It took so long to resolve partly because it was not at all clear that the corrupt file was at fault, and partly because fixing the file was difficult because it was being set back to the invalid state every time we tried to fix it.

ohh... had that before, not fun to fix....