500 Server Error

[Moka]

Hi, this is just a quick poll to see how many members are being affected with this error message that the MLK server has been throwing at people.

The 500 server error message can mean a variety of things, but usually it happens when the server is very busy and it starts to take a long time to process your request. Sometimes it will actually reject your request and spit that message at you. This message is not really supposed to happen with the hosting service MLK is currently renting, but it is!

I'd like to know how many members are experiencing this annoying message and how often so I can file a complaint to my host and maybe they can do something about it. If they can't and it's a big enough problem (which at the moment of typing this I think it is) then I'll have to move MLK to a different, more capable host.

tl;dr: Vote for how often you get the 500 server error message so I can see what to do about it.

Thanks!

[Taka]

All the time... It started about two days ago and it was nothing but now it's annoying. I had actually thought about making this topic to see if it happened to anybody else.

[Eli_Ayase]

Strange... rare time it happens on my iPhone, but at the library, it throws it all the time. So far i use my phone, and its a rare time, it throws it out. About a week ago, it threw it all the time. Now rarely it throws it out.

[Moka]

It happens most often when people are posting new topics or replies, right?

edit: Does your library have slow internet speed? Sometimes the server will reject your request if it's taking too long to get to the server.

[FlipMode]

Occasional but when it does happen, it's always at the worst timing >.< like after a decent and long post or something lol. And yeah it is almost always when posting, I don't think I even ever got the error while doing anything else other than posting.

[Eli_Ayase]

For me yes. Don't know about other peapole.

[YFWE]

Rarely for me. Maybe once or twice a week, if that.

[Eli_Ayase]

At Moka - no its fast speed... the library got new pc's and they work fast.

[Moka]

@Flip - Do you use Firefox? If you hit the back button in Firefox your form data (err.. your post) will be saved as you had submitted it so you won't lose another post. IE does not do this for you, it erases all that you had written.

@Natalie - There must be another reason why the server is rejecting your library's computer

[Annie]

It happened to me for like...an entire day and I couldn't even get on the site, but now it's very rare.