Error messages when trying to upload files to the NW forum.

Yes, comes and goes. Usually three tries unless I get tired of it...

 

This too shall pass. At least at this point things are getting addressed! :)

Not seeing any progress with error message in NW forum. More error messages than successful uploads this morning. Got three #$%@ error messages while trying to complain about error messages.

I'm not on the tech side, but I believe we've outgrown our current server set up and that is what is causing this recurring issue. DevOps is looking into our current config and I'm hoping it reveals that this is our problem. My theory is that we're maxing out on our concurrent MySQL connections. I will stay on them to either confirm or deny it.

Still getting error messages when trying to upload to the NW forum.

Still getting error messages when trying to upload to the NW forum.

I'd wager that nearly everyone does on occasion - I certainly do. I simply close the warning box & immediately try again. Frequently, three times is the charm.

Having to try three times is not a charm. It's a disaster. For me, it often requires more attempts and a relaunch of my browser. That said, yesterday I had no trouble at all. But with PN, I keep Scarlett O'Hara's words always close at hand: "Tomorrow is another day."

Sandy, I was not suggesting that I was the only person having troubles uploading.

I wanted to let Glen know that whatever fix the tech team had tried was a failure as I am getting no fewer error messages.

I'm not on the tech side, but I believe we've outgrown our current server set up and that is what is causing this recurring issue. DevOps is looking into our current config and I'm hoping it reveals that this is our problem. My theory is that we're maxing out on our concurrent MySQL connections. I will stay on them to either confirm or deny it.

 

Glen, I thought PN was using Cloudfront with EC2. Is our 'server' not EC2, but a dedicated (and non-scaleable) blade(s) somewhere like Rackspace hosting the LAMP stack?

 

If so, has the dev team considered EC2? We did this shift from dedicated about 9 years ago at qrz.com (which runs XF also) when I was the GM there. It worked well, as the consideration we needed to meet was over a million SQL lookup calls every day--and this was in addition to the forum side of operations.

 

P.S. Thank the team for implementing the "Timeline" functionality. I have configured for redirection straight to the forum and it makes me a happy camper... :cool:

SUCCESS - FINALLY. Just thought I'd share the solution I found this am. I use Firefox as a browser on a Linux system, and until recently had no problem uploading images to the No Words foum. Starting about a month ago I could no longer do so, the button to attach images would black out. I tried resetting my Firefox preferences without success. This am I disabled PN's use of the Flash uploader and everything instantly worked again. Obviously Firefox and PN's flash uploader don't like each other.