Any word anywhere on whats up with free-dc ?

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mmonnin03

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Whats up with the stats in the past day? It stopped updating yesterday, some of yesterday's data merged into todays as this morning all data was the same as last night which includes the rankings +/-. Some of the last update data is more than what I normally can produce in a single update. Totals are far behind what's on the project sites.

 

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We temporarily stopped the DB scripts to back it up. Things should calm down here soon. If it persists please mention it again

 

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Skillz

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I think one of the downloads got hung up. Working on it now, thanks for mentioning it. I didn't even notice.

 

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mmonnin03

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Well it was working for about a day.

 

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mmonnin03 said:

Well it was working for about a day.

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I'm not seeing any issues on my end. What are you experiencing?

 

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Skillz said:

I'm not seeing any issues on my end. What are you experiencing?

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From projects I'm participating in, SRBase and Loda have not updated. Each Loda update I add 30-40k and Free-DC is behind by 180k. SRBase is behind by about 1/2 day production. Each used to update prior to checking in the morning but neither have today so far. Einstein, NF (zero), WUProp as a whole were much lower yesterday. I'm getting GoofyX tasks atm so maybe that project as well.

 

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mmonnin03 said:

From projects I'm participating in, SRBase and Loda have not updated. Each Loda update I add 30-40k and Free-DC is behind by 180k. SRBase is behind by about 1/2 day production. Each used to update prior to checking in the morning but neither have today so far. Einstein, NF (zero), WUProp as a whole were much lower yesterday. I'm getting GoofyX tasks atm so maybe that project as well.

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I believe we have fixed this issue now. Please let me know if you see anything else that is broken.

 

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Awesome, thanks!

 

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StefanR5R

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Weekly stats were fetched seemingly properly earlier today. Right now I frequently get HTTP error 523 on various pages, but reloads succeed eventually.

Edit: Nope, random projects may be missing from my earlier unattended fetch.
Edit 2: Fetching the weekly stats once more right now, with a retry loop added to get them all.

 

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That error seems to be a problem with Cloudflare unable to reach the server. Wondering if their is some kind of setting/config or anything on my end I could do to fix that error.

 

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StefanR5R

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Skillz said:

That error seems to be a problem with Cloudflare unable to reach the server.

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FWIW, this problem persists for me.

At least from here, FreeDC is practically unusable through a webbrowser. Sometimes several reloads get the most common stats pages going (e.g. team stats or user stats in a specific project), but it is too tiresome. Some pages which are perhaps simpler (e.g. "Ukraine new users" which I check when preparing the weekly stats) appear to need fewer retries, sometimes none.

In my weekly stats fetch script, I enclosed the per-project fetch command into a retry loop with up to twelve tries per project before giving up, and this has worked out for the last couple of weekly stats at least.

 

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Skillz

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I'm sorry it's a problem @StefanR5R I am working on moving the site to a datacenter with a much better and more reliable Internet connection as soon as I can.

 

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StefanR5R

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Is it a common problem though, or is it just me? (You know, that German pre-war Internet infrastructure and all…)

 

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Skillz

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I don't know if others are having issues and not saying anything. Some people claim they get cloudflare errors I've seen, but it doesn't seem to be as much of a problem as you seem to be facing. I don't get any of those errors. I know I am on the LAN the server is hosted on most of the time, but even when I am away like I am now in Orlando, FL ~9 hour drive from where the server is I don't get those problems.

What I get most of the time when I am at home accessing the site is a forbidden message that goes away after a couple refreshes. I've been trying to track down that problem but nothing is in the logs that I can see.

I don't have control/access to the cloudflare/dns part of the site as Bok still has access to that.

He's on a business trip now or soon so he may be a bit busy, but I'll ask him on discord when I have time to be around when he responds. It's almost 9am and after my bunker finishes validating I am going to bed. Working nights suck.

 

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mmonnin03

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This is the first I've seen any issue since it came back up. I refreshed and this was displayed along with the server version.

"Forbidden​

You don't have permission to access /stats.php on this server."

Another refresh and the stats came up as expected.