LCR Down

Same thing as last week. LCR won’t load and then an error message shows. Is there too much traffic for the servers? I was able to get on last night.

jacobcjensen wrote: Sun Jul 09, 2023 11:57 am Is there too much traffic for the servers?

It is my understanding that routine Church traffic is not the issue. There is plenty of server power to handle requests coming from Church units, even on busy Sundays.

I understand server capacity is stated to be quite sufficient, but it is interesting that these outages do seem to occur quite frequently during the magic hours on Sunday mornings when all the Church units in Utah are in session (I know LCR is out many other days of the week). We accessed LCR fine early morning EDT, then had a few hours of no access, then mid-afternoon EDT it came back. Just an interesting coincidence that seems to recur from time to time!

I have absolutely no knowledge, but if I were to ask my evil twin when is the best time to launch a DDoS attack, it wouldn't be in the middle of the night when no one is using it. Nor would it be launched ahead of time because it would give the defense team time to organize.

That said, something seems to have happened Friday. So a DDoS may not be what happened - this time.

We have been told in the past that many of the developers are clerks in their own wards, so it's not like they don't know what's happening. As a community, we have no options to "fix" the problem.