DB errors again, now.

I am getting a fair few Database Errors at the moment. Approx one third of clicks result in one.

Agreed generally can't get site access at all on either laptop or cell. ( This is first time it's even allowed me to attempt to post and not sure if it actually will).

If it does then as a data point it startsed for me about last 15 mins. I've randomly been getting older thread reply notifications from earlier today ever since (quoting replies I've already seen and clicked on)and as I said affecting both desktop and cell

I have them on and off. Probably just something minor, but I'll alert tech, just in case.

[MENTION=790438]IBJoel[/MENTION] - seems to have cleared up for me at least so agreed probably just server switching or something. Weirdly I got the DB Error page when trying to post the above but now I have access back I see it actually posted lol

I am not sure if this is related.

My home internet link is terrible so I need to restart my router every day, but sometimes three of four times a day. I wanted to watch a film on amazon so restarted router and afterwards checked something on here.

It said my ip address was blocked with a link to admin, which didnt work.

Restarted router and all seems okay.

When you restart your router, you get assigned a new IP address. One of your restarts must have gained you an IP that is banned on FT (probably a spammer was using it).

Errr, whether you get a new IP or not really depends on the policy of your ISP. All of the domestic ISPs I have had in the UK generally give you back the same IP unless your router has been off for an extended period of time. There are times when it might change due to other reason, eg. Network engineering.

I'm getting Cloudfare warnings today, almost every time I try to post. Please update and advise?

A couple mods had some last week. I'll ask tech, though. Nothing to worry about.

It's been extremely annoying to have typed a long post only to Submit Reply and have the Cloudfare warning come up before eventually returning me to where I had been--with no record of my post.

This has happened to me three times today already. The tech needs to check into this please!

Sorry about this, guys -- Cloudflare only pops up when necessary, to keep the site from crashing completely. It's not ideal, but it's a lot better than getting a 404 when trying to visit FT.

This happened once for me today but fortunately FT had autosaved most of the post so I didn't lose much. What would be nice is if it indicated that there was a problem auto-saving so that I can save locally as well.

Yesterday there was a concerted DDOS attack, and CloudFlare saved FT from crashing. That’s good.

Some of us lost post content. Not so good.

But we can mitigate content loss by saving periodically or, in the case of lengthy content like reviews, etc. creating that content in our preferred app or program and then copying.

Yep, it’s an inconvenient extra step. But it’s less exasperating than having the CloudFlare screen pop up and losing your work, IMO. (Yes, I’m speaking from experience.)

I won’t conduct most moderation actions during CloudFlare intercepts, either.

I'm receiving a database error intermittently today.

Receiving same on every single new page/thread/topic clicked on.

Cache/cookies all cleared etc.

We're aware and tech has been alerted.

Thank you!

Another Cloudflare DDoS?
 

Having the same issues as before - Cloudflare DDoS warning, and others.

Anyone else?

Yep! We're working on it. Thank you for your patience.

UPDATE: should be ok now.

Meant to reply earlier: thank you for the quick resposne! It's been working great for me for a few hours now.

Receiving an intermittent database error

Known and working on it.