I am a bit of a loss so I am coming to Hacker News in the hopes someone has seen anything like this.
Approximately 6 hours ago we started getting a very strange error back from our site, that appears intermittently:
"Error 500 (Internal Server Error)!"
This error is a little bit strange, with only an HTML title and no body and a '!' being used. From a Google we can find no other references to this error, I did a search on Twitter and found 1 other reference to it, which is from a users complaining they can't get access to "https://beta.character.ai/". We verified that they are also seeing the same issue. The interesting this is that our site, also has the word beta in it which seems a bit suspicious.
We are running our site behind Cloudflare which is pointing to a Google Cloud Load balancer, from investigating the headers on "https://beta.character.ai/" we can see they are running a similar setup.
We have struggled to 100% identify if the issue is sitting with Cloudflare or Google but my current suspicion is Google.
If anyone has seen anything like this before, or can provide any assistance I would be very grateful.
Thanks, Stephen