Horribls Front Page Error Message!!! Help!!!

My guess is the forums are on different servers or don't use the same database as the front page.

In anycase it looks like it can't connect to a machine, it's a LAN ip so I couldn't ping it to see if it was actually a machine down.

Oh well at least the forums are still up


Sites that are down:
http://macbytes.com/
http://macrumors.com/

Yup, I'm getting it too.

Not sure what it means, but here it is:

I received the error message as well. Navigating directly to the forums seems to work fine.

I can't get on macrumors

I have tried from my 2 macs and the 2 pc's in my house, but everytime I go macrumors.com I get "Warning: mysql_connect(): Host 'xxx.xxx.x.x' is blocked because of many connection errors. Unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts' in /home/macrumor/public_html/csspvt/cssdbinit.inc on line 8
Unable to connect to database" Anyone have any ideal?

Not sure, but it happens with me too.

I have 15GB of free bandwidth on my server that I am not using right now, so if they go to a text-only front page like they usually do for big events maybe that could help them out?

mms said:

Not sure, but it happens with me too.

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I've got the same problem--I think it's a server problem.

Strange to see the front page crashed while the forums are still running.

Sun Baked said:

Strange to see the front page crashed while the forums are still running.

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So I'm not the only one with this problem? I was thinking it was something my connection did that caused my ip to be blocked.

upperblue79 said:

So I'm not the only one with this problem? I was thinking it was something my connection did that caused my ip to be blocked.

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I thought that as well ;-) Glad to see it's not just me.

Sun Baked said:

Strange to see the front page crashed while the forums are still running.

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The main page and the forums are hosted on different servers.

There is also a discussion going on here.

Mod note: The two threads are now merged.

damn



(all i could think of saying really\0

I've got 64GB. But I don't think that is the problem I think something just crashed. The site load shouldn't have been that high. Normally it's the forums that slashed.

Yep,

Macrumors front page is down. Funny that the forums are still up.

Anyway, I guess they fix it soon.

CmdrLaForge said:

Yep,

Macrumors front page is down. Funny that the forums are still up.

Anyway, I guess they fix it soon.

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they're on separate servers, so they stay independent of one another.
We're looking into it...

not just macrumors

macbytes is also affected too.

The page is down, could this mean . . . . updates are here when it goes back on!! Oh, wait, this is macrumors.com, not apple.com. Da**

glad to see it wasn't just me, had me concerned at first

Looks like Arn fixed it.

w00t

The server was probably trying to send out too much data too quickly due to WWDC craze.


I got the error too.

Got the same error message, but now it's working. I was on my PC, so I figured it was just Windows . Seriously though, sometimes I just can't navigate anything on the internet on my desktop and then I pull out my PB and everything is fine .

Oh well...

JOD8FY

cjc343 said:

The server was probably trying to send out too much data too quickly due to WWDC craze.


I got the error too.

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Damn! And we still got 3 days till WWDC, MacRumors will probably be down the whole week....