Oh, so many ways. Someone could be running many intensive searches through the API, burdening the system for everyone else. This can be done maliciously, even.
A log or other file could simply have kept growing in the file system from the small few lines per day to today filling up all the hard drives/other space. Such a small file, who would have thought it would have grown... Similarly, when there are crashes, a system can save a bunch of information for the IT folks to diagnose after the fact what happened and make adjustments. If the crashes happen frequently enough, suddenly the problem again becomes one of space...there's no room to run the appication/services. Components age. Suddenly that CPU decided it was too hot.... Through an ingenious usage of hacks and bots, the primary path through the Internet to BGG now leads to Russia, China, New Jersey and South France which are dutifully sniffing for credit card data, and trying to keep the rerouting to their own servers as the Internet Traffic Cage Match continues. Little Timmy and/or Spot the Cat is at the main server keyboard.... Someone said 'Hey, this is neat, let's put it public!'...and the logical flaw in the code logic when scaled up to BGG's size has now been discovered. ...the list goes on.... On Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 7:16:19 AM UTC-7, desertfox2004 wrote: > > As someone who is not IT savvy, I'm genuinely curious how a site like BGG > develops errors in its operation that bring the site down. For you IT > geeks, what are some of the ways that a site can go off the rails? Is it > usually due to human activity, or can there be flaws in software that > finally manifest? Can it be hardware related? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
