Maybe pruning?

[WeepingElf]

Yes, I had it about five hours ago.

[zompist]

Absolutely mysterious... this happened for me last night. But before I could contact Bluehost, it seems to be cleared up, just as mysteriously.0

[rotting bones]

These hosting services are so big, but they can't even fix their databases.

[Ahzoh]

The poor site still struggles as I occasionally randomly get internal service errors, even while posting.

[Man in Space]

Hey, zompist—says there’s 102 users online (and I’m getting site issues). Do you think this might be someone DDoSing you?

[bradrn]

Hey, zompist—says there’s 102 users online (and I’m getting site issues). Do you think this might be someone DDoSing you?

I’ve seen it at that level many times before, and it doesn’t seem to be obviously correlated with the problems. So I doubt it.

[Zju]

I keep getting errors 500 and 404... send help!

[Raphael]

As I write this, the forum claims that there are more than six million views for my Could this work as a collaborative project?-thread in Ephemera. That thread is less than a month old, and has 30 replies. What on Earth is going on there?

[zompist]

As I write this, the forum claims that there are more than six million views for my Could this work as a collaborative project?-thread in Ephemera. That thread is less than a month old, and has 30 replies. What on Earth is going on there?

Wow, that's extremely weird. That makes me think the bots are going wild... earlier I tried to restrict bots, maybe there's a better way to do that.

(See page 4. I restricted guest logins, which only worked for awhile, and had the disadvantage that humans couldn't read anything if they weren't already members.)