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Is there anything regarding the piefed software that it shows error 504 pretty often ? (piefed.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by MastKalandar@piefed.ca to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] MastKalandar@piefed.ca 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Could it be the big boys don't want minnows in the market ??🤔🤔🤔

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago

It very well could be, yes. Or else simply do not care one way or another. That is a large problem with the current state of AI is how irresponsibly it is very often trained - i.e. ignoring the concept of consent, as the scrapers e.g. disregard the robots.txt declarations.

[–] MastKalandar@piefed.ca 2 points 22 hours ago

Thanks for that link. Piefed.ca is working fine.

[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 7 points 1 day ago

It's not the code, it's something with feddit.online. We haven't had problems on piefed.zip

[–] Watermark710@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've been using piefed.social for about a month now, and I've never gotten any errors.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Welcome!

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I have but assumed some server issue. never last long. like a whole day or something.

[–] MastKalandar@piefed.ca 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

is it piefed.ca specifically?

[–] MastKalandar@piefed.ca 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MastKalandar@piefed.ca 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

So piefed has different versions ??

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MastKalandar@piefed.ca 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You're from piefed social, right ?? The instance that l'm talking about also shows v1.6.24 is free and open source.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

yeah. so assuming the instance your talking about is different as I still don't know the effected one. Maybe I missed it but it souds like its not piefed.ca. Anyway assuming that then its likely the specific instance and has nothing to do with the software.

[–] MastKalandar@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] farmgineer@nord.pub 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

As a user on nord.pub, I almost never get any 5xx status code errors. Not sure if that helps

[–] MastKalandar@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What does 5xx status code errors mean basically ??🤔🤔🤔

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] farmgineer@nord.pub 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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