C4C downtime

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Fri May 02, 2025 8:43 am

Over the last few days the forum was down for a long time. It briefly came back up a few days ago within the main down period. Is the reason known?

Philip A · Post by **Philip A** » Fri May 02, 2025 11:42 am

I’ve noticed too. The Wiki was down briefly but seems fine now. Can’t say why though.

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Fri May 02, 2025 12:12 pm

It's very clunky and slow now. Whatever the cause, I don't think it's gone away.

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Fri May 02, 2025 12:16 pm

I keep getting that thing with too many users online which was a thing exactly a year ago.

Tracey Anne Mills · Post by **Tracey Anne Mills** » Fri May 02, 2025 1:05 pm

It is running slowly when you are saving your work, and you get general error when you try edit your page.

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Sat May 03, 2025 11:08 am

1323 users online with a record 3370 from 30th April. Last year when this happened the highest number reported in the thread was 896.

Jamie Weisenberg · Post by **Jamie Weisenberg** » Mon May 05, 2025 2:14 am

What exactly do people do on this site ? Forums always seem dead .. like a ghost town.

Are you all ghosts ?

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Mon May 05, 2025 6:32 am

If so, you must be included in that.

Philip A · Post by **Philip A** » Tue May 06, 2025 6:29 am

Seems to be back up and running well now.

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Tue May 06, 2025 10:26 am

It wasn't working when I tried earlier today. 1101 users online.

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Tue May 06, 2025 12:16 pm

It's still slow and clunky now. The problem definitely has not passed.

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Fri May 09, 2025 9:32 am

Having vanished completely for a few days it's back with "just" 42 users online and seems to load quickly. Wiki is up (it did go down).

Ian Fitzpatrick · Post by **Ian Fitzpatrick** » Fri May 09, 2025 9:43 am

Ah, it wasn't my PC then!

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Fri May 09, 2025 9:59 am

Just started getting the max users error again but it's working right now. Not out of the woods.

631 users online.

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Fri May 09, 2025 4:50 pm

The Autosport forum is down now for some reason.

Fred Mumford · Post by **Fred Mumford** » Sun May 11, 2025 7:41 am

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 4:50 pm The Autosport forum is down now for some reason.

That was a max users exceeded error too, perhaps some kind of bot attack on both sites?

Having been a regular poster on that forum for 20 years, that's the first time I can remember any forum meltdown for that reason. Did Norris criticise Max or something?

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Sun May 11, 2025 12:12 pm

Fred Mumford wrote: ↑Sun May 11, 2025 7:41 am
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 4:50 pm The Autosport forum is down now for some reason.
That was a max users exceeded error too, perhaps some kind of bot attack on both sites?

Having been a regular poster on that forum for 20 years, that's the first time I can remember any forum meltdown for that reason. Did Norris criticise Max or something?

Must have done. What's your username there?

Philip A · Post by **Philip A** » Tue May 13, 2025 1:43 pm

Still on and off.

Ian Fitzpatrick · Post by **Ian Fitzpatrick** » Tue May 13, 2025 2:28 pm

I've only just managed to get on for the first time in 3 days!

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Tue May 13, 2025 3:57 pm

992 online.

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Sat May 17, 2025 2:20 pm

Just 38 online now. Could we finally be seeing our way out of this? I might even update the CO-event parkrun table with the Sheffield results this weekend if it's working properly.

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Fri May 23, 2025 3:01 pm

1447 online. Clunky.

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Wed Jun 11, 2025 9:47 pm

It has been a lot better for a while now. About 60 online now - still weirdly high, but nothing to break the forum.

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Mon Jul 07, 2025 4:43 pm

285 online and I got that error message earlier.

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:48 pm

363 online. Very clunky. The wiki was having problems a few minutes ago but then started working.

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Wed Jul 16, 2025 5:47 pm

This still clunks a lot. Over 500 online just now.

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Fri Jul 18, 2025 12:27 pm

Around that now (470) and it's struggling.

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Thu Jul 24, 2025 9:36 pm

Similar problems at the moment. Coincidentally, I just came across someone who's trying to solve this problem by loading unwanted crawlers with vast amounts of data to in theory break them.

https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Fri Jul 25, 2025 9:01 am

Interesting. The problem needs to be looked at though. It's been going on for a while. I'll see if the bat signal works:

Charlie Reams wrote:

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Fri Jul 25, 2025 3:30 pm

The bat signal is usually meant to summon Batman, not piss him off, but it's worth a try.

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Wed Aug 06, 2025 10:57 am

Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 3:30 pm The bat signal is usually meant to summon Batman, not piss him off, but it's worth a try.

Not sure why you think it would piss him off. But anyway I also sent him an Aptomail, and there's still an open ticket on Apterous.

Tracey Anne Mills · Post by **Tracey Anne Mills** » Wed Aug 06, 2025 1:46 pm

Wiki and C4C are very clunky, hopefully I can edit my recaps and get C4C up to speed

Gevin Chapwell · Post by **Gevin Chapwell** » Thu Feb 26, 2026 10:48 pm

It's terrible at the moment. It's had its ups and downs but it's never been good for a prolonged time since the start of this thread. It would be a shame for the forum to die of neglect.

Tracey Anne Mills · Post by **Tracey Anne Mills** » Fri Feb 27, 2026 1:42 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Feb 26, 2026 10:48 pm It's terrible at the moment. It's had its ups and downs but it's never been good for a prolonged time since the start of this thread. It would be a shame for the forum to die of neglect.

CDB is very clunky too, one possibility that Charlie could be updating it

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