when scratch wiki is down
display [Error 503 v]
play sound [Error! v] until done

when green flag clicked
broadcast (I hate this error. Also, it happened to me with the 500 error! v)

TytoMifa122 wrote:

Can anyone help me?
I try to open te scratch wiki and it says this: “503 service unavailable. The service you requested is temporarily unavailable. Please try again in a few minutes.
If this continues, please let us know in the Wiki forum topic.
(Request URI: /)”

This happens every time and I don't know what to do.

• Why have you not been more responsive? There really isn't much more for us to say beyond “we're aware of the issue and looking into it”. That's been the status for weeks.
  
• Can I set up my own alternative? No. The Scratch Team has placed a level of trust in us to maintain the Wiki to their standards, a level of trust they very rarely give to third-party sites, and I strongly doubt they are interested in passing that on to someone else. In addition, for the levels of traffic we get you will likely find you are going to be dealing with the same problems we are.
  
• Can I have a database dump? No. The database dump contains emails, deleted revisions, and a lot of other information we cannot give out.
  
• So is this the end of the Scratch Wiki? We don't know. It depends on the response I get from the folks in charge of our hosting.
  
• Can I join on the engineering side? No. We appreciate the offer, but we have really maxed out what we can do with our current server stack, and you need a much higher skill level for this than a lot of you probably think you do.
  
• Can you just implement (whatever solution I just thought of)? Probably not. We have done pretty much everything we can on our current server stack. Short of the changes I have requested, anything else would be mostly ineffective, and for why we can't just magically change our server stack, see the next FAQ.
  
• Why can't you just get better servers? Servers cost money, and we are also stuck with what we have for legal and administrative reasons that are out of our control.
  

mrschoollover wrote:

why does the wiki not load? ?

jvvg wrote:

Can I have a database dump? No. The database dump contains emails, deleted revisions, and a lot of other information we cannot give out.

GratefulGamer9398233 wrote:

jvvg wrote:

Can I have a database dump? No. The database dump contains emails, deleted revisions, and a lot of other information we cannot give out.

What if I said I wanted a database dump without that information?

BarBar2016 wrote:

If there is a page about the “New Scratcher Status” then should there be a page for every other status?

ispretty wrote:

mrschoollover wrote:

why does the wiki not load? ?

read the post above yours

supersonic61223 wrote:

The wiki has been down for hours now… Is this maintenance or is the server extremely overloaded? I haven't been able to research anything on the wiki in the last couple of days without seeing a 503 error. By the way, if anyone wants a silly way to learn about http responses then check out HTTP Cat! The owner is really cool. If the link goes against the rules then I'll delete it.

cybersteve547 wrote:

supersonic61223 wrote:

The wiki has been down for hours now… Is this maintenance or is the server extremely overloaded? I haven't been able to research anything on the wiki in the last couple of days without seeing a 503 error. By the way, if anyone wants a silly way to learn about http responses then check out HTTP Cat! The owner is really cool. If the link goes against the rules then I'll delete it.

I mean if it wasnt allowed, then you prolly wouldn't be able to post that.