The witching hour

[pipsqueak]

That's what I've come to call the time period between 11:30pm and 11:45pm EST (aka 4:30am and 4:45am in the UK). The reason is that on several occasions I've been taking a last look around Brit-Gen at that time, just before retiring for the night and been faced with an error message and no Brit-Gen to be found. It always comes back [phew] but I wonder why this happens. I am guessing that there is some sort of scheduled maintenance at that time, but if not, then maybe there are gremlins....

[Diane Grant-Salmon]

Hi Both,

Although I get up everyday between 4.45a.m. - 5.00a.m. (UK time) ...... no, I'm not volunteering!

Think Zombie and that's me ...... just manage to have two cups of tea and then watch the birds having breakfast in the garden. I usually *come round* one hour later, then I turn on the computer.

[MarkJ]

I am sometimes still about at that sort of time (depends on how clear the sky is!). If I am about, I will check up what is happening. It could be the server doing a backup job causing the loss of access for a short time I suspect - it may be worth asking the tech chaps if they have a cron job set for 4.30am. It would fit with the 15 minutes downtime perhaps.

Mark

[susan-y]

Maybe its your server that's doing something. I'm in the same time zone and I haven't had troubles at that time of night.


Sue

[pipsqueak]

Maybe it is - and I can't say it happens every night, but when it happened again last night I had to ask...

Right now it.s 11:09pm so we shall see.

[susan-y]

I'm watching, too!!!

Sue

[Diane Grant-Salmon]

One zombie checking in.

At 04.26a.m. clicked bookmark for GB and got this:



so uploaded to photobucket, then tried agaon ... got in straight away to main page.
Clicked New Posts and got the above page again (twice). So have scrolled down page main page and clicked on witching hour message itself and got in to write this.

[susan-y]

Pipsqueak
...YOU'RE RIGHT!!!
only it happened a little sooner. At 11:24pm EST I went to submit a reply to another thread and I got a notice that said DATA BASE ERROR and proceeded to say that the Brit-Gen forum tech staff have been notified of the failure. it suggested I go out of the site then go back in and try another link. I tried that also... I could log in to the home page, but could not open any links...got the same message.....
11:32pm EST I was able to link back in, but I've lost the other post I wanted to submit.

Sue

[susan-y]

One zombie checking in.

At 04.26a.m. clicked bookmark for GB and got this:



so uploaded to photobucket, then tried agaon ... got in straight away to main page.
Clicked New Posts and got the above page again (twice). So have scrolled down page main page and clicked on witching hour message itself and got in to write this.

DIANE...
You're much more talented than I am, but that's exactly what I got!!! Just happened again, but only for a minute and right after I sent the previous post.
Sue
AND again when I went to send this. Now its 11:43 EDT, now 11:45 EDT

Please note I should have put EDT in my last post instead of EST.oops

[pipsqueak]

Well it happened briefly at 11:31pm so I grabbed a screenshot.



It is now 11:38 and each time I try to post this - I get the error message again. I am now going to do a copy and paste so that I can post this when it comes back!

Am I alone???
...........................................

OK - I'm back! It's 11:46 and I can post again!

I am SO glad I'm not the only one! Hubby thinks that somewhere between here and there there is a server or something undergoing routine maintenance. Clearly not here since the teenagers and me are all online!