I always find this to be a good resource of reasons to why there is a problem:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl :) On Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 10:42:21 AM UTC-4, Jasonbartfast wrote: > > My favorite bit of trivia about computer systems: particles coming off of > the sun can actually cause bit changes in RAM, which can make your computer > do all kinds of random things (but usually just crash). > > Servers almost always have error-checking memory to account for this. But > sometimes when your home computer seems to crash or break or flip out for > no reason, it is actually the sun's fault. > > Improbable? Yes. But it does happen. > > On Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 10:16:19 AM UTC-4, 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.
