Was BYC down, or was it just me?

[earlybird10842]

Was BYC down About 5-ish central time?? I got an error message when trying to get online. Reloaded--nothing. This has happened once before, a few days ago. The site logo also changes from a chicken picture to some blue square when this happens. It wasn't down for long either time, but instead of getting the cute "The sky is falling" page, I got an error message.

ETA: I am using a reasonably recent version of chrome, and will try and get screenshots/exact times next time.

 

[enola]

Same here

 

[earlybird10842]

Same here

So it wasn't just me or my computer!

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

I had trouble today as well. It is possible that some maintenance was being done to the site, or maybe just some server issues.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Hmm... we didn't have any maintenance and no reports of problems from our server team. We'll keep an eye on it and hope it was just a quick fluke.

How long did it seem like the site was unavailable? Any error messages or anything?

 

[ivan3]

It was brief: https://www.backyardchickens.com/error.php?c

Noted some other `upstream' `transient ischemic insults' (server errors on large sites), today. Glitch in the Matrix.

 

[subhanalah]

]I've been having problem s off and on since I became a member, more the past couple of days though, for sure.

 

[sumi]

Rob, I had the same problem, for about 10 minutes @ 00:05 to 00:15 (my time) last night. I couldn't get anything done, I kept getting error messages. Everything seems to be fine now though.

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

Seems to be working ok for me as well. It was maybe around 6 eastern time and lasted on and off about an hour.

I agree that it was a glitch in the matrix.

 

[earlybird10842]

I have also been having some issues with other sites--so maybe as ivan suggested, there is a matrix issue, versus a BYC issue. The next time it happens I will record times and take screenshots--I should have done that yeasterday, as it was the second time that happened.
ETA: Feedback system link on error page works in link provided by ivan, but it didn't while the site was down.