Getting a lot of "502 - Bad Gateway" errors recently

[Mat]

When trying to load the forums, it seems to be a crapshoot as to whether I get this error or not, and this is both at home and on the work wifi.
I've just changed my work wifi connection to use Google's DNS servers, which seems to have gotten rid of the error.
But loading threads is still very slow.
Is it something wrong at my end, or is there something going on with the forum server?
This has ben going on for a couple of weeks now.

[Harlequin]

I have also noticed an increase in such problems recently.

[Whiteball]

Yeah, i've seen one or two of those lately as well.

[Misfit]

I wouldn't say it's been running slowly, but there have been regular Gateway issues.

[gilesgoat]

Same here 502 .. 504 .. "Bad Gateway" errors .. who's actually responsible for the forum hosting/server(s) ? Is any other alternative way to get in touch with him/her/they when the forum is down ? ( email ? IRC ? Discord ? )

[RiK]

who's actually responsible for the forum hosting/server(s) ?

Gaz.

I've got admin to the forum, but no access to the hosting / back-end stuff.

[gilesgoat]

who's actually responsible for the forum hosting/server(s) ?

Gaz.

I've got admin to the forum, but no access to the hosting / back-end stuff.

Is there any way to contact him ? It's been really YEARS last time I ever spoken to him in any way, I have not a clue where he is, what he's doing, how to get in touch with him.

[RiK]

Dude, none of his contact details have changed...

[skab]

502 is the backend (PHP) being too slow. When you get bombed by AI and shit there is more and more load on the machine, effectively giving you a DoS attack.

If you're using PHP-FPM you could try to reduce, not increase the max number of servers for the site, that cleans up the pipeline. It's faster to serve 5 out of 100 requests at a time instead of trying to serve all 100 at once.