technical issue What's with this 502 bad gateway nginx error recently?

[Metallic Strings 185]

This has been happening to everyone and it must be stopped. Sometimes, it won't let us on the forums or poniverse and will say 502 bad gateway nginx on the screen. Is there an explanation to this, it's starting to bug me and everybody else on the forum.

[Raini Skies 78]

It's just an error with nginx they're trying to work out. Trust me, I get them almost randomly on my website.

[Jeric 46,866]

I apologize the site was down. No one dislikes outages more than I do. A 502 Error is a server error. Nginx is what we use.

 

Note that large and largish sites do have load based outages and the occasional downtime, especially complex sites like ours. Even the most stable and non volunteer maintained systems are not immune to outages and server issues.

 

Anyway we apologize for the lack of Pony and the inconvenience that it caused.

[Metallic Strings 185]

  On 2015-02-19 at 2:09 AM, Jeric said:

I apologize the site was down. No one dislikes outages more than I do. A 502 Error is a server error. Nginx is what we use.

Note that large and largish sites do have load based outages and the occasional downtime, especially complex sites like ours. Even the most stable and non volunteer maintained systems are not immune to outages and server issues.

Anyway we apologize for the lack of Pony and the inconvenience that it caused.

Also, why was it down? Bug fixes? Hackers? Etc.?