Load spike
Posted on October 29, 2008
Filed Under Incidents
Earlier this afternoon, Melvin experienced a slight load spike due to an exhorbitant amount of Apache processes running on the server. During this time, domains were experiencing a 500 Internal Server Error when accessing the website(s). We restarted the Apache process and the load was restored to normal.
While websites were not “down” in a traditional sense, there was a period of about 30 minutes where users would experience the above error.
No data was lost.