Something wrong with the WebService?

[Alfg]

Are there problems with the load on the server? The web site is slow responding and from the web service I get the message “your request are exceeding the allowable rate limit.”
It’s no fun to add new releases to MusicBrainz.

[Freso]

Yep, MusicBrainz is currently way overloaded; see

State of things, Q2 2016

I would like to applaud @bitmap, @Gentlecat, @chirlu and @zas for keeping the site up and running! The fact that we’re up and running despite the challenges we’ve had in the past few weeks, it is sheer amazing to me! Given all of the challenges we’ve faced in the past two years, I’m really happy that we haven’t had any serious failures. But, there is still plenty of time for those to his us before we’re out of the woods! There are many things happening that can be a bit hard to see, but if you…

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Rate limiter has changed?

The rate limiter has not changed, but over overall traffic has and this causes more 503 errors to be thrown. At peak times like last night we’re hitting our 30mbit/s committed traffic limit. We could buy more bandwidth, but then we would likely need to buy more servers to handle the capacity. We’re currently trying to get away from operating our own servers and instead rent servers from some other provider. In order to do that we need to finish establishing our EU presence (a few weeks more, sa…

[Alfg]

Thank you for the answer and good luck for establishing the EU presence

[Deleted_Editor_1409249]

The problem I’ve noticed the last few days is that the error seems specifically targeted at the user of a given app rather than saying the global limit has been reached. Worst case scenario, I could be hitting you with up to 5 requests spaced 1.5 seconds apart every 3-4 minutes yet I’m getting the same message as the OP.

I know the API has been sketchy for some time now but at least before, it said the global limit had been reached and I fully understand that and it’s reassuring to know it’s not just me. The current error is making it look like I’m doing something wrong when I’m not.

[rob]

This is a recent change as we’re trying to eek out the last remaining bits of capacity we have in our current hosting setup. Once we’re done with the schema change, we’re all going to focus 100% on working to get ourselves to a new hosting company.

Along the way we’ll keep making minor tweaks to try and improve the current service, but if you see the link to my lengthy explanation that was posted above, you’ll see that we’re in a tricky situation.

Thanks for your patience!

[Deleted_Editor_1409249]

^Since I forgot to say it before, thanks to you and everyone else for your efforts.