Comments on: Design Contests 2.0 to Launch without Servers

By: createabit

createabit — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:46:20 +0000

Hello Again,

I received these 3 errors trying to access the contest area, login, and shortlist.

The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://contests.sitepoint.com:8080/users/login?

The following error was encountered:

* Zero Sized Reply

Squid did not receive any data for this request.

Your cache administrator is serveradmin@sitepoint.com.
Generated Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:36:57 GMT by domU-12-31-35-00-3D-14.z-2.compute-1.internal (squid/2.5.STABLE14)

Second Error

( ! ) Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0
Call Stack
# Time Memory Function Location
1 0.1053 1311612 Sitepoint_ErrorHandler->handleException( ) ../ErrorHandler.php:0
2 0.1066 1323252 Sitepoint_ErrorHandler->_showErrorPage( ) ../ErrorHandler.php:68

3rd Error

The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://contests.sitepoint.com:8080/contests/3240/shortlist

The following error was encountered:

* Zero Sized Reply

Squid did not receive any data for this request.

Your cache administrator is serveradmin@sitepoint.com.
Generated Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:41:22 GMT by domU-12-31-35-00-3D-14.z-2.compute-1.internal (squid/2.5.STABLE14)

By: Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:49:15 +0000

Thanks, createabit. We’re aware of this error and are working on it.

By: radesign

radesign — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:16:05 +0000

Looking cool.. :)
Working fine from south east Asia… congrats!

By: createabit

createabit — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:14:22 +0000

Tried to access the contest area and received the following message:

An Error has Occurred

Unhandled exception: No database connections available for the role of ‘reader’

An unexpected system error has occurred. Our customer support team has been notified and someone will investigate the problem shortly.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:43:02 +0000

Are you guys using Cruise Control for your automated build process? If so, what do you think of it?

By: createabit

createabit — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:53:03 +0000

I haven’t been able to access the contest area for 6 hours. I am located in South Carolina, US.

By: Mark Harbottle

Mark Harbottle — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:34:17 +0000

We’re in the process of launching it now!

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:48:51 +0000

and now the contest area is down ;)

By: andrew.k

andrew.k — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:43:36 +0000

klassicd: Thanks for volunteering, but were very lucky with beta testing — we had far more volunteers than we expected and they unconvered less bugs than we expected. Now we’re ready for the next step :D

By: babyboy808

babyboy808 — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:58:03 +0000

Sounds ubber complex… looking forward to the unveiling