Happened to me too. Pretty sure it's a quota thing, although the lack of an informative message is puzzling... just give it a while.

If you can't wait, at least some of the files are available on the Wayback Machine, although navigation is broken in the archived version. 😉

I'm trialling some anti-abuse mechanisms, based on IP and some other client fingerprinting stuff.

I've shortened the timeout and increased the number of downloads threshold.

If you still can't download files, DM me your IP and I'll suss it out.

VileR wrote on 2020-09-01, 11:02:

Happened to me too. Pretty sure it's a quota thing, although the lack of an informative message is puzzling... just give it a while.

If you can't wait, at least some of the files are available on the Wayback Machine, although navigation is broken in the archived version. 😉

Yep, there is supposed to be an actual message with the 503 error, but I haven't been able to get it to work properly.

SquallStrife wrote on 2020-09-01, 11:58:

Yep, there is supposed to be an actual message with the 503 error, but I haven't been able to get it to work properly.

Since you are using an Apache webserver, I guess the easiest way is to call a custom "503.html" via the".htaccess" file:

1ErrorDocument 503 /path/to/503.html

You can set this up for HTTP error "403" and "404" as well 😉

SquallStrife wrote on 2020-09-01, 11:58:

I'm trialling some anti-abuse mechanisms, based on IP and some other client fingerprinting stuff. […]
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I'm trialling some anti-abuse mechanisms, based on IP and some other client fingerprinting stuff.

I've shortened the timeout and increased the number of downloads threshold.

If you still can't download files, DM me your IP and I'll suss it out.

VileR wrote on 2020-09-01, 11:02:

Happened to me too. Pretty sure it's a quota thing, although the lack of an informative message is puzzling... just give it a while.

If you can't wait, at least some of the files are available on the Wayback Machine, although navigation is broken in the archived version. 😉

Yep, there is supposed to be an actual message with the 503 error, but I haven't been able to get it to work properly.

Ah that makes a lot of sense, thanks! I was worried I messed up some data quota. Probably a good thing to have those anti-abuse measures in place.

Tbh, I got a bit OCD and wanted to archive all of the SB 16 drivers haha. Under normal use, I would probably only download 1 or 2 drivers at a time, and rarely would I need to I am sure.

I'll test it tonight with another needed download, and if it is still giving me the 503, I will DM you for certain. Thank you for clearing things up, I appreciate that! This site is great.