Every few hours, I keep getting a message about server being busy.
The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later.

It happened seemingly with no regard to the source I was trying to access the forum from, be it home or work.

Is there an issue for anyone else, and is it a problem the administration is aware of? Maybe there's an over-flood of the invisible Sorting Hat forum, or some other bot related traffic, since I don't believe there should be an increased number of members logging in compared to the usual traffic?

The approximate times (allow for a couple hours of miscalculation) were, in order of happening:
GMT 10:00 (21-04-2014)
GMT 23:00 (22-04-2014)
GMT 5:00 (23-04-2014)
GMT 15:00 (24-04-2014)

The might have been a fifth event, but I'm not sure about the exact time. Each period lasted for at least ten minutes. I think the GMT 10 "incident" took the longest, since I was amidst writing a post, and had to copy it and post an hour later.

Of course, there might be something in forum log.


As a side-note, we did have a couple of updates for popular fics in recent days, and a few new stories posted in For Review subforum. That might explain an increase in traffic, but I doubt that it's enough to make much of an impact.

 

I actually had the same problem, around 14:30EST(US) and 14:50EST(US). I thought it was just a small issue that occurred due to my work's own server issues and a few internet issues we had here.

Weird.

 

I've had this problem a few times over the last few days or so. It hasn't lasted very long though.

 

Also seen this several times yesterday, pretty sure at 1600 PST...

 

This morning, there might have been a longest period of server overload yet.

Got the first warning at GMT 5:08, and when I arrived at work at GMT 6:04, I got the very same message. At GMT 6:25 it worked as usually. I have no information on the server status between these three attempts, since I didn't have time nor a need to keep rechecking every few minutes.

Do you need me or anyone else reporting the times, or are the server logs sufficient source of information? I don't want to spam the administration with alerts from this thread, but at the same time, I could try to catch some debug information if it could help.