Database lagging.

**frogbeastegg** · 01-20-2005, 00:15

More tech trouble? For the last week or so I've found it very hard to get the Guild to load. Everything has 30 second or longer loading times, if it loads at all. Much of the time I'm left waiting for a few minutes before I get "there seems to be a problem with the database, please hit refresh blah blah". About a quarter of my attempted posts fail with that message and it takes several minutes for everything to load so I can try again. Most of my attempts to answer my PM's result in the database error message. One time my post appeared but the topic's last post date/owner didn't update, nor did the last post/topic listing in the guild. It was as if my post did not exist outside of the inside of the topic. One post came out mangled with extra spaces inserted in it, and then it took ages for the several step editing process which then broke with the database error right at the end. The post did update successfully though.

:hits post, prays:

**TosaInu** · 01-21-2005, 17:11

Hello frogbeastegg,

On top of the normal problems, there are PHP attacks. Attacks and countermeasurements slow down boardperformance. I just received reply from the host about a couple of things and the board will likely be offline for some time over the next few days. We'll try to keep this at a minimum. My advise is to write posts in your textapplication and copy/paste when done.

I'll post again when the grunt is done.

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 01-21-2005, 21:59

On top of the normal problems, there are PHP attacks. Attacks and countermeasurements slow down boardperformance

Attacks? From whom?

**Adrian II** · 01-21-2005, 22:29

Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax

Attacks? From whom?

Let me guess. There's a Santy.c worm out (you got it, it was released on 12/24) that attacks not just php boards, but all php scripts and pages.

**TosaInu** · 01-21-2005, 22:51

Hello,

There are indeed worms and PHP exploits, and it's affecting many sites. The recent slowdowns are caused by mechanisms to defend against it. As far as I know it didn't come through yet, there seems to be a serious effort though to harm PHP, so don't be surprised when this or another board is gone at some day.