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Jono
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12 Aug 2016, 4:58 am

Okay, so in the last 20 minutes or so, there've been a few times when I tried to come to WP and I get an error on the Cloudfare page saying that the connection between Cloudfare and the Wrongplanet host timed out. I've noticed that this occasionally happens quite a lot, especially at this time. Is there something to be worried about or is this normal?

Edit: This just happened again as I was posting this. What's going on?



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12 Aug 2016, 2:24 pm

I get this occasionally. There's something goofy going on with CloudFlare, and I don't know what it is. This happens on other websites that use CloudFlare, also, not just Wrong Planet.



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12 Aug 2016, 2:26 pm

That's an issue with our server getting temporarily overloaded with requests. It happens when a lot of people are all trying to access the site at once. It usually will only last for at most 30 seconds.


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