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votingfemale on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

votingfemale — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:44:18 +0000

@ raincoaster

To that I would preface it with "click somewhere within the text of your blogpost first, then do a Control-A & and Control-C. otherwise they might copy html on the editor page unrelated to their blogpost.

I have done that sort of manual backup when using unstable platforms but in the two years of wordpressing and not doing a manual backup first, I have only lost a blogpost once.

All in all I find WP is stable, in my experience. A bit annoying at times what with my pingbacks to my own previous blogposts getting auto-moderated and the occasional throwing of a security certificate invalid pop-up and the like.

I am pleased with blogging at WordPress but I don't want it to go to their heads lol

raincoaster on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

raincoaster — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:59:59 +0000

Just a word of warning to prevent future issues like losing drafts:

I used to work on a very very crashy system and this is what I did and what you can do if you don't want to compose offline:

Just before hitting Publish, select everything in the Write box. Copy it. I do Control A, Control C. Then hit Publish. If you lose everything, you can still paste it into a text doc or another post, because it's on your clipboard.

mattar12 on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

mattar12 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:08:47 +0000

ok well....they are back up now...disregard.....THANKS!

mattar12 on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

mattar12 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:07:53 +0000

So, about 2 hours ago, I made some changes to one of my sights and it went off line. I thought I messed it up, but then I realized all of my wordpress sights are offline...so it must be wordpress? Is everything working now? A couple of my sites that I know are down are clevansville.com riordans.org & theriordans.org

Any idea???
Thanks!
Matt

votingfemale on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

votingfemale — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:00:35 +0000

@ atropos77

I was composing a blogpost when the outage occurred. My draft was auto-saved as normal as I composed it.

I don't know how much you know about computers but "stuff happens" from time to time.

These wordpress guys work hard to keep things ticking smoothly.

If you dont like WP, go over to blogspot or something.

Have a nice day :)

accessiblenorth on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

accessiblenorth — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:56:40 +0000

@hanni
I came back this morning to tell you I think you did a great job last night. In fact, I think the whole crew did a great job. Thank you.

@atropos77
The trick is to save your work periodically. The autosave feature is nice, but it doesn't refresh every time you make a keystroke. You have to make sure you save each iteration that's important. WordPress does back up our data. That's why all our published blog posts are still there for anyone who cares to read them. And, yeah, the FREE part--that's pretty good too. There are lots of platforms out there. Maybe a different one would be more suited to your needs.

ic2064 on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

ic2064 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:13:42 +0000

@hanni, @macmanx, @designsimply -

Thanks to the three of you and everyone else on the team for getting the crash handled yesterday. When I signed up for a WordPress.com blog, I certainly never anticipated this level of feedback and attention to issues from a FREE web host. It's pretty unbelievable, if you ask me.

Despite your great service, I'm going to keep on drafting my posts in Notepad++ and just pasting them into the editor before I publish, though, because it's great HTML editor (and not bad for XML, C#, VB and quite a few others) and because working off line is just the smart thing to do. I hope y'all won't take offense!

Thanks again, and let's hope we don't have to have this little party again any time soon.

atropos77 on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

atropos77 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:05:56 +0000

That's incredible. So anybody who was in the middle of typing a post before having the chance to publish it basically lost all of their work. Either that, or I managed to be the only unlucky one. I can't believe that. I'm going to be writing every successive blog post wondering if WP is just going to crash again and delete everything that I wrote. Or maybe I won't. If I can't trust WP to work properly, I might just move over to Blogger or something. Are there are not backup systems for your users' data??? Unbelievable...

designsimply on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

designsimply — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:59:33 +0000

@atropos77 I'm so sorry to hear about the post you lost! If the post data never made it into the system because of the server issues then drafts would not have been autosaved and there wouldn't be any post revisions to recover. If you can't find revisions, then I'm afraid the data may have never made it into the system in a case like this one. So sorry for the trouble!

atropos77 on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

atropos77 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:11:44 +0000

I looked up page revisions on posts and apparently since the post I was working on that disappeared was only in 'draft' form, there are no revisions. I've looked at one of my published posts and the bare bones of my draft and there is no revision box on the page of my draft. So I guess it is gone for good. That's f'n awesome. Thanks a bunch, WordPress. Half my afternoon down the toilet. Unbelievable.

Any of you forum 'engineers' wanna chime in and tell me if there is ANY way that I can retrieve my post, or am I just pretty much screwed?

shakhawat on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

shakhawat — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:56:48 +0000

No, wonder my self-hosted blog http://www.kavkisfile.com/key
stats are gone by 400/500 views

But happy to see it's back

atropos77 on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

atropos77 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:35:42 +0000

I can't find any box anywhere that says 'Revisions' or anything like it, either on my Dashboard or on the post itself (what's left of it). Sigh...

dlager on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

dlager — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:26:30 +0000

atrropos77,
down on towards the bottom of the post page is a box that should say "Revisions".
that is where you autosave should be int HTML form.

atropos77 on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

atropos77 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:21:52 +0000

Wrote an 800-word blog post when WP decided to explode. Site kept telling me that it was regularly saving drafts of my blog post (lies). Tried to save it when I was done and got about 50 '404' messages. Now the site's back up. Checked my draft so I could finally publish it after trying half the afternoon and it only remembered 69 out of my 800~ word post, even though you 'engineers' have repeatedly said that no data was lost. Uh, it was actually. An entire post of mine is down the drain. Thanks a lot. Real great.

dlager on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

dlager — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:17:42 +0000

A handy tool for us users who also use twitter:

https://twitter.com/wordpressdotcom

A source of info if WordPress.com is unaccessible due to tech issues.

niecey456 on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

niecey456 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:15:22 +0000

Thank you to all that worked so hard to resolve this issue for us. You are greatly appreciated. My site is back to normal.

davidderrick on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

davidderrick — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:52:52 +0000

Stats are definitely not fully back yet: there's still a big gap from the downtime.

designsimply on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

designsimply — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:48:55 +0000

Indeed, dashboards should be back up and running. If you see any lingering issues please try clearing your cache and cookies first.

moshesharon on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

moshesharon — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:44:01 +0000

We're baaaaaaaaaack! Thank you wordpress angels!

madpatski on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

madpatski — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:26:55 +0000

Thank you very much for your hard work.

lurkerm3 on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

lurkerm3 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:23:52 +0000

Thanks for all your hard work to restore the site!

universalgeni on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

universalgeni — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:15:21 +0000

Than you for bringing WP back, all you nice staff folks!

sagcosgrove on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

sagcosgrove — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:11:30 +0000

Thanks for all the updates. Glad to have it back.

macmanx on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

macmanx — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:11:18 +0000

Stats will come back, don't worry, we're almost there.

akg1 on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

akg1 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:06:34 +0000

I hope my stats come back...

merovee on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

merovee — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:03:44 +0000

Having my best day ever . Normally average about 250 per day and was up to 680 for the day , then stats lost . Aaaaargh .

shakhawat on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

shakhawat — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:59:40 +0000

Guess it's back, but have I lost the stats of my self-hosted blog during the "downtime"?

sagcosgrove on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

sagcosgrove — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:53:04 +0000

Any word yet when dashboard is going to be up and running again? Been trying to get a few new posts up since 4 pm EST. Would really appreciate any help/timeline about repairs or at least some idea about partial admin functions...

Thanks!!

teennewslook on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

teennewslook — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:56:38 +0000

really annoyed wanted to get a post out before bed as i have school in the morning and now its nearly 11pm next time if your not close to solving the problem dont say you are

teennewslook on "504 Gateway Time-out - nginx"

teennewslook — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:56:37 +0000

really annoyed wanted to get a post out before bed as i have school in the morning and now its nearly 11pm next time if your not close to solving the problem dont say you are