I'm sure you've noticed a lot of '502 Bad Gateway' errors with Petopia and Warcraft Mounts lately. It looks like these have been fixed for now!
The owner of our server originally believed it was because our server is old (which is definitely is) and dying (which is going to happen someday), but he later found out our server was actually being hammered by some subnodes on another network. Whether this was a deliberate malicious attack or just something else he can't say. But he's blocked them for now and the issues immediately stopped. Hopefully they'll stay that way!
We still have to find a new home, but at least there's no immediate rush now. Our server owner has only been hosting us as a favour (he's a friend of Mania and her husband) and he understandably no longer has time to maintain the rapidly ageing server. Nor would I want him to.
Moving isn't a trivial change, especially since I have no experience in setting up a website on a new server from scratch. But I'm seeking good advice and hopefully I'll have help. It's times like this I miss Mania more than ever.
Also, in my effort to clean up the disk today (in case having more space helped) I accidentally deleted this forum database, which is why the forums were down entirely for some hours. But fortunately we had a very recent backup. I'm not sure if any posts are missing, but if so it should be very few and hopefully nothing too important. I'm sorry for all the inconvenience and doubly sorry if any posts are gone
In my defense, the database was named "wowpetopiaforums_old" which was very misleading 
