I keep getting a 500 Internal Server Error about half the time I try and log onto the site. I wonder if others are having this same issue. Normally, I just think of it as a nuisance, one of those bugs that we have to deal with in life on the net, but with the site going down last weekend, it has had me wondering if the two are connected.

I have the same issues Ame. At one point it can take a number of tries to get the site back again. I had hoped with the site going down like it did, that these problems would have been solved at the same time, but it obviously hasn't been the case. I just hope that whatever is causing them doesn't make the site go down again.

Yup, happened to me couple of times.

I have been having that same error for ages and as someone said it can even take a number of attempts before the site returns. When we were completely shut out, I asked someone what a SQL error was and he said they tended to occur when a site has too many errors. A couple of days after he mentioned that, like Amethyst has now wondered, I wondered if the 500 errors could have been an indicator that a SQL error was going to happen.

I get the same thing- I can get in about half the time...I usually just keep trying...or wait a while to try again.

I used to get those a lot, but haven't seen one since the site went back up. Maybe I've just been lucky?

An SQL error is typically a database error of some sort, and a lot of a site's content is stored within a database.

I was about to quote TJ and mention something about dumb luck -- I haven't seem to be getting those errors as often as everyone else -- but then I started getting it when I tried to post this! Now I'm debating if it's luck or if it's God's slightly sarcastic side I'm dealing with...

I guess the God of the Internet didn't like your recent post in Lockout...

I just got the error again about 15 minutes ago. Did anyone else get this or is it just my computer.

I kept having that problem this morning, but it cleared up by noon. (Just in the nick of time, too -- I was going from being concerned to panicking.)

Okay, so its not just me. That's a relief. I thought it was just me.

I get it once in a while, so its a random bug. Rolls the dice to decide which one of us its going to bother next.