META: Extremely Naughty Gateway
I have become rather familiar with the "Bad Gateway" message and have a few questions:
1. What causes this?
2. How is it fixed?
3. How much does fixing it cost?
4. Will it get worse?
5. Is the server is powered by 4000 Hamsters running on wheels in shifts and, if so, who feeds them to make sure they have enough energy?
October 31st, 2014 at 4:00 PM ^
October 31st, 2014 at 4:03 PM ^
Serious question. I've been using the app all day and have heard that for some reason the app is immune to this.
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October 31st, 2014 at 4:21 PM ^
October 31st, 2014 at 4:04 PM ^
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October 31st, 2014 at 5:32 PM ^
October 31st, 2014 at 6:51 PM ^
Yes you did.
October 31st, 2014 at 4:05 PM ^
I learned a lot about liberal arts today from someone named "Margot"
October 31st, 2014 at 4:07 PM ^
Ah the good Doctor...
October 31st, 2014 at 5:59 PM ^
Margot Asquith to Jean Harlow on the pronunciation of her first name: "No, no, Jean. The ‘t’ is silent, as in Harlow."
October 31st, 2014 at 4:06 PM ^
October 31st, 2014 at 4:08 PM ^
Gateway timeout is equivalent to 2000 people wanting to get into Disney World at 8am and they all plan to give up if they can't get in in under 10 minutes. Replace people with site requests, disney world with mgoblog and 10 minutes with a few seconds.
I believe this site is hosted on Amazon Web Services, so it should in theory be able to automate the scaling up and down of resources as they are needed, but I've never configured this so I can't say how easy it is to do. You could also change the timeout setting, but after, say 30 seconds, even the most patient person is going to walk away.
October 31st, 2014 at 4:11 PM ^
October 31st, 2014 at 4:19 PM ^
You're right, they're on dreamhost. I'm kind of surprised. But if they were on Amazon, the scaling up and down would not be automatic unless you made it so. Otherwise, they would be able to charge you more without your authorization.
Edit: they may instead have a VPS from NOC4Hosts, and Dreamhost is just the public dns server. Or, Dreamhost and NOC4Hosts are the same. Either way, the IP address I'm seeing is located in Tampa, FL which is also surprising. I'd go for something in Chicago.
October 31st, 2014 at 4:31 PM ^
Why Chicago?
October 31st, 2014 at 4:31 PM ^
October 31st, 2014 at 4:39 PM ^
To add to TheHoke's answer, just a few pings I've tried tell me the lag from Michigan to Tampa is ~50ms and to Chicago it's ~15ms.
Step up your game, speed of light!
October 31st, 2014 at 4:55 PM ^
That unauthorized advertising is verbotten here, and worse they are a legal client of mine, but for 100% genuine performance please consider migrating the MGoBlogs to SingleHop: https://www.singlehop.com/
Tell Dan Ushman the Michigan community loves us some SingleHop. That might get you a rather fine arrangement. 0.02
October 31st, 2014 at 5:33 PM ^
October 31st, 2014 at 7:41 PM ^
October 31st, 2014 at 4:09 PM ^
Small dogs feed the hamsters. Monkeys feed the small dogs. Gorillas feed the monkeys. And robots feed the gorillas...It's a far more efficient system than it sounds.
October 31st, 2014 at 4:42 PM ^
Turtles all the way down.
October 31st, 2014 at 4:12 PM ^
I hate when I can't get to the site, but at the same time I love it because it shows that many people come to MGoBlog for information.
October 31st, 2014 at 4:14 PM ^
If Harbaugh is hired even Google will crash.
China will wonder if "khaki" is a code word for some kind of CIA hack.
October 31st, 2014 at 4:28 PM ^
Whichever soul posts a Harbaugh hire on MGoBoard (if and when) will pass Wolverine Devotee's MGoPoints ... even if he/she starts thats day at 100.
October 31st, 2014 at 4:34 PM ^
Don't try to pin me down to an exact time. I'm not real detail oriented.
October 31st, 2014 at 4:37 PM ^
WD has earned every MGoPoint he has. It can be reasonably argued that his letter, which was the first one in the media food chain, played a role in hastening the departure of David Brandon. Brian's subsequent piece on DB letters to fans was great, but WD started the ball rolling.
October 31st, 2014 at 6:42 PM ^
bad gateway for more than a few days now. What a beautiful sight!
October 31st, 2014 at 6:42 PM ^
Go Blue!
October 31st, 2014 at 8:32 PM ^
Well, it was severe enough today that a couple people, so I noted, stepped forward to help Brian potentially alleviate these issues, both on this site as well as on Twitter, so hopefully in the future MGoBlog can handle its elation and misery without being next to impossible to access for long stretches of time. Pretty sure I hosed a few people opening multiple tabs earlier and hogging connections.
October 31st, 2014 at 8:41 PM ^
I thought Dave Brandon paid some East Quad hackers with Domino's pizza and a few liters of coke to perform a DoS attack on the site.