I haven’t gotten any 504 errors that I can recall, but the entire Fediverse, and even the entire Internet, often comes under attack by things like bot scraping DNS attempts these days.
Here we are not the big boys like Google, Facebook, etc. to swat them aside so easily with our dedicated (and paid) team of expert professional IT support professionals.
These Fediverse instances are more like hobbies, outside of the largest ones like Lemmy.World, so some small amounts of downtime is to be expected.
Edit: the Fediverse Explorer shows uptime stats if you are interested - e.g. PieFed.ca shows 99.63%, which is exactly in-line with the other most populated ones. Hint: sort by decreasing Active Users to see that it is the #3 most popular PieFed instance.
Could it be that the big boys don’t want minnows in the market ??🤔🤔🤔
Thanks for that link. Piefed.ca is working fine.
Oh yes I see. feddit.online reports a significantly lower uptime than PieFed.ca. Looking at that table, it seems quite rare among PieFed instances to have an uptime stat be that low - all of the other instances in the top 10 instances have >99.5%, and most other instances too. I do not know why.
I’ve been using piefed.social for about a month now, and I’ve never gotten any errors.
Welcome!
I have but assumed some server issue. never last long. like a whole day or something.
This has been going on chronically since the past two three days. For example, right now it’s fine. After one hour, all of a sudden it’s likely to show 504.
is it piefed.ca specifically?
No, a different server. I’m working on piefed.ca right now, as l don’t how that instance is going to behave right now. Since the day before, it didn’t open for hours. Something seems terribly wrong over there.
you asked if it was the software though. si the instance your having issues with not using the same version then? it might be good to make clear the instance and what version of software and such. Assuming you do know it should be otherwise functioining and notsomething specific to the instance.
So piefed has different versions ??
I mean I don’t look at git but its software that gets updated. Like my version says “PieFed v1.6.24 is free and open source” at the bottom of every page which I can only assume is the running version for the instance.
My other account is barely a week old. Mine is Singapore cloudflare. It works fine. The browser is going great. The host has all the issues.
It’s not the code, it’s something with feddit.online. We haven’t had problems on piefed.zip
As a user on nord.pub, I almost never get any 5xx status code errors. Not sure if that helps
What does 5xx status code errors mean basically ??🤔🤔🤔
To greatly oversimplify,
400-499 = you did something bad (404 not found, 401 not authorized, etc.)
500-599 = our server did something wrong meaning something in the server side went wrong ( either an issue in code or one server can’t reach another)
4xx can also be caused by bugs (such as a bad request error because a dev broke something with what you are requesting), so it’s a little complicated to explain in very basic terms
It depends on the specific error, but errors starting with 5 are errors on the server side.
I know you have been told more than once before, this belongs in !piefed_help@piefed.social
