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NYUCCL / psiTurk

An open platform for science on Amazon Mechanical Turk.
https://psiturk.org
MIT License
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Psiturk Ad Server is down due to heavy load #296

Closed fredcallaway closed 6 years ago

fredcallaway commented 6 years ago

https://ad.psiturk.org/

gureckis commented 6 years ago

yes, self-hosting ads is the solution until this is resolved:

from @deargle: Herkou is your best bet for quickly self hosting, but there's a bit of setup required. Start reading here : https://github.com/NYUCCL/psiTurk/issues/254#issuecomment-282862588

gureckis commented 6 years ago

hesitantly, it is back online. i didn't do anything but perhaps the process was put in time-out for overuse and is set free again.

gureckis commented 6 years ago

for reference, the error message comes from Passenger (https://github.com/phusion/passenger) which runs the web server application stack on behalf of Flask. i’m not sure how the hosting company configures it but it can get overloaded if too many workers are viewing and completing hits at the same time. it might be wise to take it easy with the size of your assignments until cogsci deadline passes on Feb 1.

deargle commented 6 years ago

I just updated https://github.com/NYUCCL/psiTurk/issues/254#issuecomment-282862588 to be more self-contained. For those who want to use heroku, you only need to read that comment, and this one for a convenience python script (also available here)

gureckis commented 6 years ago

:+1: