Update on the “too many requests” error message
I’ve been hard at work trying to find the culprit. Along the way I’ve tweaked the site several times in several ways and the problem seemed to get better. For the last few days, no error messages at all. I thought maybe I was home free, and then about a half-hour ago: BOOM. It happened again.
And so although I don’t think I’m all the way back to square one, the problem seems to be persisting at least somewhat. One tip – if you happen to get the error message – is to wait about a half-hour and it should clear up. It also doesn’t seem to happen to everyone all at once, because when I’m getting the error message, I can see by my site traffic meter that some people are still getting through.
Hope they’re not bots.
Now my host has escalated things and supposedly the higher-ups are working on fixing the glitch. We’ll see. I hope they don’t tell me to just get a much more expensive hosting service.
I’ll keep you posted.
See? It IS the ballet posts…
I got through. Obviously.
I thought it was me.
I don’t understand it at all, and I just wait half an hour and try again. Good luck!
Sennacherib:
I guessed it! It was you! :0
Rarely but happens, not in some weeks I think.
I have nothing to contribute in terms of technical assistance, but just an FYI that I have yet to encounter this error.
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I wish I was that good.
FWIW. I run into it sometimes when I refresh a page in order to view the latest comments. That seems to be when the site puts me in a 30 min timeout. Other times it works normally.
For the last week or two I’ve been getting the “Too many requests” error nearly every day. Once it happens it persists for an hour or so. Early this morning I got the “Server unavailable” error.
FYI.
mkent:
As far as I know, the “too many requests” message has only occurred once in the last three days. Before that, for a week or two, it was happening several times a day.
As for the “server unavailable” error, that might have been some sort of maintenance at the host rather than anything connected with the blog.
Tech stuff can be very frustrating.