Is the community broken/slow to anyone?

joereiber · 2013-04-03T13:05:14.000Z

I’m getting constant timeouts and such, and even have a website checker saying the community is down. Is anyone else experiencing this?

richyaydon9621 · 2013-04-03T13:32:09.000Z

It’s been down for a while. Looks like there might be signs of life now!

joereiber · 2013-04-03T13:35:39.000Z

It just threw up a “Down for maintenance” for a while, then came back up to the intermittent connections. How long has it been down?

seanwolsey · 2013-04-03T13:35:41.000Z

They’re running some kind of maintenance.

aaron-m-spiceworks · 2013-04-03T13:40:38.000Z

We’re working to resolve this, sorry about the inconvenience.

justincredible · 2013-04-03T13:42:36.000Z

Awesome Aaron to save the day!

maxsec · 2013-04-03T13:45:45.000Z

yeah - was a message on the google+ account saying they the sites broke and they were ‘looking in to it!’.

richyaydon9621 · 2013-04-03T13:47:51.000Z

Meh, shit happens Aaron, no worry to me! just so long as you guys get to the bottom of it eventually!

Any ideas what caused it yet or was it “planned”?

anthony · 2013-04-03T13:55:46.000Z

First that massive bill and now this? What is Spiceworks coming to???

ericlampert1869 · 2013-04-03T13:57:05.000Z

Spice Rex is taking a personal day…

Huw3481 · 2013-04-03T14:13:19.000Z

In a true bit of genius, it appears that they DDOS’ed themselves

gregfrancis6968 · 2013-04-03T14:13:33.000Z

Is it April 1st?

joereiber · 2013-04-03T14:22:15.000Z

Huw3481:

In a true bit of genius, it appears that they DDOS’ed themselves

This, this is really funny. Also, he is serious.

chamele0n · 2013-04-03T14:23:55.000Z

I wasn’t able to get to it about an hour ago, but now I can.

martinpeverley · 2013-04-03T14:28:31.000Z

Twon of An:

First that massive bill and now this? What is Spiceworks coming to???

Maybe if you’d paid your bill this wouldn’t have happened.

I still can’t get to it, by the way.

luigi · 2013-04-03T14:33:55.000Z

It seems like it’s back up now.

Limey:

Twon of An:

First that massive bill and now this? What is Spiceworks coming to???

Maybe if you’d paid your bill this wouldn’t have happened.

I still can’t get to it, by the way.

LOL - I must admit that was the first thing that came to mind: “OMG - I didn’t pay that bill …”

kurtm · 2013-04-03T14:41:00.000Z

Luigi The Cat:

It seems like it’s back up now.

Limey:

Twon of An:

First that massive bill and now this? What is Spiceworks coming to???

Maybe if you’d paid your bill this wouldn’t have happened.

I still can’t get to it, by the way.

LOL - I must admit that was the first thing that came to mind: “OMG - I didn’t pay that bill …”

I Tried to pay but apparently there was a problem with my Nigerian issued credit card.

aaron-m-spiceworks · 2013-04-03T14:54:20.000Z

The best explanation is at https://twitter.com/Spiceworks/status/319477135192514560

Generally we don’t intend to do maintenance on Wednesday mornings

richyaydon9621 · 2013-04-04T08:54:23.000Z

Aaron M (Spiceworks):

The best explanation is at https://twitter.com/Spiceworks/status/319477135192514560

Generally we don’t intend to do maintenance on Wednesday mornings

DDOSing yourselves? Nicely done! haha Ah well. That’s what happens when you make an app and a community that’s as good as this is!

aaron-m-spiceworks · 2013-04-04T12:01:58.000Z

Here’s an even better explanation from our director of IT http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/320917-spiceworks-community-outage-04-03-2013