FFmpeg trac server frequently 503'ing

[varenc]

Right now this trac server is returning 503 errors half the time for me.

Screenshot: ​https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/wgszvysgpcuyx68/Screen%20Shot%202021-08-03%20at%202.15.48%20PM.png

You can also check this by running this a few times:

curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{http_code}\n" https://trac.ffmpeg.org/

Seems like the server needs a capacity upgrade? Or database rebuild?

Alternatively, I imagine the majority of traffic is to the ffmpeg wiki documentation pages from logged out users, meaning they're just accessing static content that's identical between viewers. Some more aggressive caching might relieve the load from these views. It would require setting the right caching headers, but something like Cloudflare could even be used to cache that static content for logged out user and relieve the load from the trac server. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Balling]

Same here. Really irritating. It is actually more often 503 than not.

Also why it says "Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at trac.ffmpeg.org Port 80" even for https??

[Balling]

No longer happens, nice.

[Balling]

Started happening again.

[varenc]

I can also report it's still happening. Got 503'd when trying to login.

[hydra3333]

Yes almost all of the time yields a 503

[hydra3333]

503 still occurring, took 4 tries to get up the list of tickets :(

[Balling]

Did not happen for a couple of days, hope this is over.

[Balling]

Started happening again.

[Balling]

Started happening again.

[Balling]

Fixed again.