Site Admins vanished or just dont care ?

[Bengoodall]

Kaine, you have under 100 posts, to me, thats a starter account, yes theres a problem, how much did you pay again?

I dont seem to have that problem at all, sometimes, I come back after a day away, and its still logged in, sometimes not.

This is a site run by volunteers, and they do their best, its one of the best mini sites on the net, with the friendliest bunch of people.

Dont mess it up for the rest of us.

 

[Kaine]

I may not have many posts, but i started paying almost immediately, mainly because i hate ad\'s.

I\'d happily pay more for an ad free site.

Its not the fact the issue has occurred, i understand things break.

Its the fact i\'ve sent emails to the admins, posted in the webmasters forum, and spole to the moderators.

None of these things have resolved the issue, which you\'ll see from the number of people in this post is effecting alot of members who \"support\" this site.

All i\'m after is a post from the admin (that will take, what 5mins ?) stating they are aware and looking at it.

We are, afer all paying for an ad free site.

I\'m just hoping this post will actually prompt them to do something about it for all of us.

 

[borg]

I have also pinged Chern. We shall see what happens. He fixed the auction problem so he seems to be around.

 

[spazzy]

Access denied for user \'nobody\'@\'localhost\' (using password: NO)

This is the message I seem to usually get when browsing the forums.

 

[Shadzar]

Originally posted by spazzy
Access denied for user \'nobody\'@\'localhost\' (using password: NO)

This is the message I seem to usually get when browsing the forums.

That is a database error with SQL not running the script correctly.

can happen anywhere, but unless you are runnign your own server rather than having hosting rented nothing much can be done.

maybe too many ocnnections to the databse at once or something. some things can be changed by admins, but a rented serveer might have other sites on it.

the admins themselves would need to figure that out and tell you at their descretion, but it really has nothing to do with your account, but the actual forums/gallery/etc trying to connect to the database. SQL, or whatever other DB CMoN may be using.

the PHP program tried conencting to the database and the database told it it couldn\'t connect, so the PHP gave the error message to the web user as the page output.

server problem and not one that a single account could or should experince, so you are more than likely logging in fine, jsut a server glitch.

TOLD YOU i saw borg around somewhere lately so there! the admins have not forgotten or forsaken the site.

 

[spazzy]

??? huh?

Sorry, that\'s just not my language! I did catch though that there\'s nothing I can do about it, soooo... I\'ll just complain to myself.

 

[Shadzar]

Originally posted by spazzy
??? huh?

Sorry, that\'s just not my language! I did catch though that there\'s nothing I can do about it, soooo... I\'ll just complain to myself.

oh you can complain until your heart is content. i jsut meant it wasn\'t you messing up. it wasn\'t human error, but computer error. you didn\'t do anything wrong to get the nobody@localhost using password:no error.

telling what the error was did about as much as you really could do as the admins have to track down the problem and fix it to see why this part of the website isnt wanting to talk to the other part of the website some times.

 

[freakinacage]

shadzar, you are speaking foreign!

 

[matty1001]

Scorchio!

 

[Springbok]

I almost always visit the site using my 3G phone, i can block all the pop-ups and banners, but not on my work pc? Weird!

 

[Undave]

Originally posted by Shadzar

Originally posted by spazzy
??? huh?

Sorry, that\'s just not my language! I did catch though that there\'s nothing I can do about it, soooo... I\'ll just complain to myself.

oh you can complain until your heart is content. i jsut meant it wasn\'t you messing up. it wasn\'t human error, but computer error. you didn\'t do anything wrong to get the nobody@localhost using password:no error.

telling what the error was did about as much as you really could do as the admins have to track down the problem and fix it to see why this part of the website isnt wanting to talk to the other part of the website some times.

It happens every night at 10:30pm (BST) and lasts for about 5 or 6 minutes. Would that mean it\'s something to do with the server or with loads of people logging in at the same time or what?

Either way it happens regular as clockwork so just leave the site for a few minutes and try again later.

 

[MPJ]

Originally posted by spazzy
Access denied for user \'nobody\'@\'localhost\' (using password: NO)

This is the message I seem to usually get when browsing the forums.

Yep, that\'s the one I get quite a bit.

Mac with Safari here so let me chime in with the others saying it\'s not a Microsoft thing (totally Microsoft free machine and happier for it).

BTW, Apple holds about 4% of the PC market yet it\'s looking to me like more than 4% of us run Macs. Good on us CMoNers, a special breed. :drunk:

 

[Shadzar]

Originally posted by Undave
It happens every night at 10:30pm (BST) and lasts for about 5 or 6 minutes. Would that mean it\'s something to do with the server or with loads of people logging in at the same time or what?

Either way it happens regular as clockwork so just leave the site for a few minutes and try again later.

i can only hypothesize as i do not have access to the server records. i know there is some kind of script that handles broken images. i am sure we have all seen them. there is probably a script that cleans up deleted images also. if these do not run immediately when occured, it may be timed to do so on a schedule, or at least to check to make sure they were done, or some other sever daily function like getting a new list of ads, or something...

a daily occurence could easily cause the database to be unavailable. it coudl also be as you said many people trying to get on at once, or maybe some DDOS type thing where some bot is trying to connect but cannot. some databases have a limit set to the number of users connecting at a time. the acutal time it takes for PHP to conenct to the database depends, but usually isnt very long. like when you make a post it takes only a part of a second to interact with the database and you are done. so odds of too many people are few and far between, but can be possible if the limit is reached when a bunch of people try to do something at once.

not sure how the random image script works ont he voting side, but people viewing images coudl easily reach some database limit if MANY people try to hit the site up at once.

otherwise PHP could have stalled. not knowing the version used on the site i couldnt diagnose any problem that may be relevant. PHP does have an option to the maximum amount of time for a script to run before it locks up and is cancelled.

say the PHP script to record a broken image got stuck because the page doesn\'t load or cannot find the image. maybe it alreayd made a conenction to the database and did not close the conenction yet. this would mean one less user to connect to the database as the broken image script may is stuck using it until its (30 seconds by default) maximum execution time.

this is all just saying CMoN has its own dedicated server. if the server is shared with other sites, then maybe one of them having a problem connecting to their database could be slowing down the database software, or could have some daily script running on the server itself to backup the database that means it cannot be connected to by the CMoN scripts.

if that error comes at the same time each day it is surely not user error, but server doings. maybe not error, but its doing something, whether it is supposed to or not.

that is just my guess.

i would check if i new the UTC of your BST time given. +1 UTC?

either way it is the PHP trying to conenct to the database using the password and username hidden within the PHP script (not connected to any user account) that normally causes a \"nobody@localhost using password:no\" error.

something in dbconnect.php or whatever script just didn\'t run right.

that is my best guess.