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? 
>
>

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