Technical issue: Stuck in an infinite login loop

I’ve been noticing this weird glitch where the server starts tripping whenever things get busy—usually right around 8 AM, midday, or during that evening rush at 5 or 6 PM. It keeps throwing errors with login requests.

Basically, you log in just fine, but the second you actually try to post something, the forum kicks you out and asks you to log in again. It’s a total loop! You can’t do anything, not even check your DMs. The only way to fix it is to basically walk away from the computer for about 15 minutes, and then somehow it just "fixes itself." It’s incredibly annoying.

It looks like the issue might be tied to those Akamai cache servers that most US internet service providers rely on. If you run a quick netstat, you’ll see this address popping up constantly:

(ip adresa).deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com:http

Everything only goes back to normal once that connection hits a fin_wait state. Since these are supposed to be cache servers meant to lighten the load, it seems like when the main site gets slammed, the server isn't communicating the connection status properly to the cache servers.

You guys should probably double-check the cache forward protocol settings on your server and make sure everything is syncing up correctly with the ISPs.

Things are finally looking up.

But now, every single time I try to log in or shoot someone a DM, it just kicks me out and asks me to re-log. It’s a total loop. Endless.

Seriously guys, can we get those Black Knights sorted out? This guy's opinions are pretty ridiculous to begin with, and clearly he's struggling to back them up in public.

Seriously,

At 5:00 AM, you're hitting that exact same login loop. It’s ridiculous—you have to log back in 2, 3, 4, or like, a million times just to get one single thing to stick. Literally every single post requires a re-login.

Someone needs to give those Black Knights a serious wake-up call. They're out here living off our misery because they clearly don't have anything better to do with their own lives.

Ugh, here we go again. I tried adding a comment to this post and got kicked right back to the login screen. Seriously, you guys need to fix this site.

I was just trying to quote or reply to some threads over in the Politics section, right? But every single time I try, it forces me to re-log, and then—bam—it won't let me type a single thing. Total nightmare.

Maybe this explains where the whole mess started:

http://www.reddit.com/showpost.php?p=59090687&postcount=2
The user you’re talking about actually has 338 posts on Reddit. You can't find them because the internal search tool is broken (we're dealing with some issues there), and since his handle is "Anonymous," you probably just typed the wrong thing. Plus, we did end up deleting some of his stuff.

Look, it's not like I typed the wrong thing into the site's search bar—I don't even bother using the built-in search because, let's be real, it's been useless for years. Long story short, someone is pulling the owner's leg, but hey, that's not my circus, not my monkeys.

I used Google, which—believe it or not—indexes basically everything you type onto your search/cache engine within seconds. Usually, spider-bots crawl websites once every 24 hours, so why on earth would Reddit be so special that it needs to be scanned every single minute? Don't ask me.

And then, suddenly, Google shows that "Anonymous" doesn't exist on Reddit, his posts are gone, and the argument I had with him is nowhere to be found. Then, out of nowhere, I get slapped with a couple of warnings for an argument with Anonymous that I can't even prove happened anymore. Then the mods tell me they were "cleaning up" some of Anonymous's posts, which supposedly explains why I couldn't even log in for a few hours (it's all documented in the official complaint logs). So yeah, just a few hours of being locked out and unable to log in normally.

Google is smart enough to show results for both "anonymous" and "anon ymer." But I can't prove it because, honestly, I didn't think taking a screenshot at that exact moment was necessary. And even if I had, it wouldn't really count as proof anyway.