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Yes, been getting it intermittently over the past 10 days or so. Glad to hear it's not just me.

The site comes back up after a few minutes but it's annoying because it's been happening a lot lately.

Happening to me as well.

Me too.

Ditto, but not for the last 3 days or so

Seems daily.

Frequently for about a week

Yes, thought it was just me, but apparently not.

Yes, about every third time I come to the site!

God Bless
Bill
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...closed.614419/

Constantly.

About every third or fourth time I log in

Yep. Bad server

Yes, I have been getting the same message. I check back on and off.

Yes, same here. Intermittently over the past few weeks. Comes and goes.

AMES ordering site has been down - like completely down. Only affecting this forum site at times.

Yesterday they had nothing at all at the shop - everyone there had to take phone orders and write them all down. Entire system was down.

/\ oof.

I have enjoyed this site, and have been wondering for the past week or so, if the days are numbered because of the frequency of Database Error's.

I hope Ame's get's things ironed out on their end;
I hope issues with this site also get figured out - without it becoming a casualty of the constant need to update (often required in the background).

The site I used to oversee was a casualty of the host(?) ceasing to support the installation of vbulletin that we were running;
We had no warning - just a "Database Error"...
It took quite some time for me to figure out the root cause - in the meantime I was spinning my wheels trying to figure out how to bring the site back using a backup... which absolutely was for naught.

Yes. I try and get that message. I try less than a hour later and connection is ok. Figure?

Yep. Could not log on the last couple of days.

Yes

Last night was the first time I’ve seen it in months.

Having this quite often on my computer. I use Firefox. Can't log on now. But I can on phone.

Keeps on ticking here....

Getting this database error message for several weeks pretty much on the daily.

Such is life.

Same message. Couple of weeks now.
Within 1-3 minutes it clears up.

Anytime it gets weird I blame it on the guest bots.
Could just be some crypto miners in new hampshire causing it.

I was good for a few days until today.

Get it approx once a day.

George

I guess this is just the norm now? Was good for a while, for me, but the last couple days have been more no go than go.

Me too.

Irritating when I'm needing my PY gix!

every time this becomes commonplace, I worry that we may be loosing this forum.

More often than not.Tom

I've seen it happen many times. Once the site becomes unstable, people start leaving. It doesn't happen all at once, but slowly over time. Then the forum becomes a ghost town.

A story as old as forums themselves.

Funny it seems AM nothing say after 3pm ok.

Site has been offline for me for two days now.

On a lark I disabled my adblocker and it loaded fine.

I am having trouble as well!

Can only get on once every five or six times I try.

God Bless
Bill
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...closed.614419/

I gave up trying for a few days.

I just got in now after a few days. But here is what is different. I don't often log in, I just come in as a visitor and look at "Today's Posts".

It has been at least weekly where I am getting the database error, so I am not convinced it is a "login" issue. I just plain can't get on the site.

This place is a wonderful resource so I hope it continues well into the future.

Working fine here

Still running like garbage.

This is terrible , I dropped a 350 sbc in my goat because I have no supervision!

Could not get on all evening last night.Tom

Couldnt log on for last 2 days... what is the issue causing all these "database errors" lately??

Im on many other forums like this for other hobbies... never experience this kind of problem or the others the PY forum has had lately like the slow posting or not being able to edit a post without waiting 5 minutes like its on dial up service from the 90's. & all the spammers & scammers, never or very rarely see that on other forums.

The comments about losing the forum due to data base errors etc might be or hopefully are a little overkill... Ive watched 2 or 3 very popular forums die recently that didnt have any technical problems, the activity dropped a lot on one and the owner just decided it wasnt worth the costs to keep it going & the other one had good activity for being a smaller niche crowd but then without any warning or indication it was going away, it just didnt work one day and never again, all the years of info were just gone & the owner is nowhere to be found (hope hes doing well). Point is, antiquated web forums can & do die without warning, hopefully this forum with the large number of members & activity wont end up that way.

first time through today.I think it has something to do with http in the link,https is the links that seem to work better.Something about security I believe?Tom

Was just able to get on first time in two days

It would be a travesty if all the 25 years of searchable data here was lost due to the forum dying. All the knowledge, wisdom, part numbers, builds etc lost. Like the Library of Alexandria burning down.

Haven't been able to access the site for the past 3 days until now

I agree 100%... it happened a few years ago to another smaller pontiac niche forum... tons of info & knowledge over 10-15 years just gone...

Unless anyone knows how to use one of those "archive" website retrievers things. Another forum for home audio Im a long time member at just went through some drama from the admins or host company that banned all talk of "modifying or upgrading" their products which was just as popular as doing that to classic cars, and some members mentioned a archive software or program or web service that can retrieve deleted threads. Imagine admins here banning all talk of how to modify or upgrade or increase horsepower on pontiac engines for the sole reason that they thought all Pontiacs should be kept original as they were made on day 1... any mods or change of parts made them, & I quote, "no longer a Pontiac" That literally happened on a long time well know audio brand forum with 2-3 decades of how to improve or upgrade their products. Ridiculous.

So if something were to happen to PY, there are ways to retrieve & save the majority of threads or info... Im just not 100% sure how to do that but its a pretty common thing.

PS, I am able to log in OK as of now but had problems earlier this morning... I was automatically signed out without doing it myself, then when signed back in, the site seems to be working good again... knock on wood. ;)

I check the forum regularly. It’s been a great help for me. I reached out to Eric today. Left a voicemail, sent a message thru their contact link and even spoke with Wendy. The forum is working for now. Hopefully fixed. If/when Eric returns my call, I’ll relay the information. He might be bombarded with messages like mine.

Bots/ Spam

Previously it was just an intermittent delay for me once in a while.
But the last 3 days I was getting nothing - not even the error notice - like it was lost in space.

And no email notices of new posts either during that time.