As many users have noticed, RPoL has been having some issues responding to all the requests its receiving at peak usage times. This is generally late afternoon and into the evening in eastern North America (GMT -5).
This problem most commonly manifests as time-out (e.g., "server not found") errors when trying to view RPoL pages, or as the partial loading of a page with a mySQL error response:
Warning: mysql_connect(): Lost connection to MySQL server during query in /data/rpol/webdocs/lib/rubb.php on line 29
Could not connect: Lost connection to MySQL server during query.
This is a known issue caused by too heavy a load on our server. It's being worked on, as noted by jase earlier today.
Over in the General forums, jase:
The server is under too much load, getting nearly 1 million hits a day. Please be patient while we organise new hardware for the site.
We'll update this thread should we get any new information.
This message was last edited by a moderator at 20:57, Wed 13 Feb 2008.