UPDATE: As of 10PM PST, RC is back up and running, no mention of the outage though – Anthony
I figured I’d better note this since a number of people have brought it to my attention. Trying to reach realclimate.org was giving a 502 error much of today, which is likely due to an internal problem with their database used to run WordPress. They run a custom version of wordpress code and theme on a LAMP configuration, and it appears the PHP code can no longer communicate with the MySQL database.
After several hours of that 502 error, realclimate.org is now giving a 503 error:
Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Here’s some background on these codes:
- Error: 503 Service Unavailable
- The server is currently unavailable (because it is overloaded or down for maintenance). Generally, this is a temporary state.
Error: 502 Bad Gateway
A 502 Bad Gateway error occurs when the front-end web server cannot communicate with the application responsible for responding to the request. To resolve this error:
- Confirm that the application is running. If the application crashed, was terminated, or has not yet started following a system reboot, the application must be restarted to respond to requests. If the application was terminated, you will receive a notification email with additional information.To restart the application manually, please see your application type’s documentation or control panel entry for instructions.Most stopped applications are automatically restarted during periodic cron jobs. Please see the application’s entry in the control panel for details.
- Confirm that the application is listening to the correct port. Check your application’s configuration to make sure that it is listening to the port assigned to the application in the control panel.
Gavin is probably pulling out what little hair he has about right now.
This is why I use wordpress.com – I don’t have to worry about maintenance, hacking, updates, or other server related issues.
Based on the return codes, the issues at RC today are likely due to internal code or maintenance problems, so I wouldn’t speculate beyond that.
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Tragic.
I still find it amusing that given how much they deny the sun’s influence on climate, they have the sun in their banner and you dont….
I wonder if they have tried to apply their world-famous coding skills…
And what a bad pseudo gateway it is to climate science.
Still down …
It is not as if they have many viewers to disappoint …
Hi Mike – all they care about is giving the impression of great heat – and hope people don’t do something really radical like think about it.
Given the high traffic of your site, does it ever get overloaded? Or do you solve that by buying extra bandwidth?
Mike Lorrey… interesting observation…
Yes RC has a sun… but the solar influences deniers’ sun is an “angry sun”…. Anthony has a much nicer soft reflection of our beautiful life giving sun…
503’s are frequently authentication errors too. Might be as simple as someone fat fingering the new password in a script or the password/shadow file. BTW, it’s back to a 502, which likely implies they’re not troubleshooting methodically and logically…
I guess my hack worked its magic. ;’)
Usually I’ll see a sign that says “Wet paint” and won’t touch the paint to see if it’s still wet.
Why did I rush right over to RealClimate to see for myself?
I can connect, but I don’t get anything back.
I wonder if they use the – oops, just got 504 – Gateway Timeout – Phil Jones backup method. “I know it’s here, somewhere.”
Yep, still wet.
LAMP with MYSQL makes for a fairly nice web platform until it doesn’t. At that problem you have a major project on your hands fixing it. Musta been the global warming that got to his CPU or something.
@Bradley, the major problem is the core database and its server. You have to do transactions to it and not get locks. Bandwidth turns out to usually be the least of your problems in the long run.
You know, Anthony, a truly decent human being would contact Gavin and offer to host all his posts until he’d resolved his issues. Kind of in the spirit of Trenberth meeting with skeptics…. Uh… your moderators would, of course, continue to handle the moderation duties.
Paul Westhaver says: October 17, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Mike Lorrey… interesting observation…
Yes RC has a sun… but the solar influences deniers’ sun is an “angry sun”…. Anthony has a much nicer soft reflection of our beautiful life giving sun…
Just my feelings too. Like a Freudian slip they show the sun and like a second Freudian slip they show it as angry. Truth will out.
Real WHO?
Oh, gosh, Betsy must be pulling out her hair about now. Maybe now she realizes solar hosting might not be such a great idea after all.
RC is green technology. Only works when the wind blows government grants in their direction. The green you see is your $$ going down the toilet to help “the Team” live large.
omnologos says:
October 17, 2011 at 5:28 pm
“I wonder if they have tried to apply their world-famous coding skills…”
Yeah, the ability to code for a supercomputer makes a mere webserver a piece of cake. I don’t know how many times Warmista have implied that they understand their supercomputer code so well that reading it is as easy as reading a physics text. What could go wrong?
Maybe their part of the stimulus ran out and they won’t be back up till the “Jobs act” is passed so they can get their jobs funding.
“This is why I use wordpress.com – I don’t have to worry about maintenance, hacking, updates, or other server related issues.”
Yes, but Gavin doesn’t have to worry about traffic….
Maybe their proxy server is upside down.
Theo Goodwin says:
October 17, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Yeah, the ability to code for a supercomputer makes a mere webserver a piece of cake. I don’t know how many times Warmista have implied that they understand their supercomputer code so well that reading it is as easy as reading a physics text. What could go wrong?
Theo, as most of their released code has proven to be Matlab, FORTRAN, or other codes which have been readily duplicated by non-progammers (Steve McIntyre is a mining engineer not a programmer, but has duplicated Team studies repeatedly in R), you need to be careful throwing that supercomputer coding idea around. People have been duplicating their “supercomputer codes” on desktop PCs all over the world.
Hmmm … time yet for a sidebar category titled “Down” ?
Probably only if they lose their posting-database for the x number of years they’ve been in existence …
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I hope they have a good (recent) backup of their database file or the are going to lose everything if they need to rebuild their site. What a shame 😉
Does Mr. Soros get a refund or a credit note?