#70145
03/30/2001 4:15 PM
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Interesting story, just happened to the site I used to work on.. They moved servers, and somehow, within a week, apparently managed to cause thousands of dollars worth of damage to the server, apparently by accident.. Now, the idiocy of the site admin not withstanding, how is it possible? I heard a few mumbled things about too much traffic for Virtual hosting, (which makes no sense, since that's what they did on the old server too).. Interesting speculations anyone?
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#70146
03/30/2001 5:56 PM
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It would be hard to do without using bad scripts, memory hogs, dangerous programs, strain, etc.
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#70147
03/30/2001 6:04 PM
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I type Like navaho
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It sounds impossible to cause actual physical damage to a server, tho you can delete software, corrupt software, etc, but that's just a matter of re-installing it again, it's isn't really gone forever. They must be talking about wages spent to repair the software, databases, etc.
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#70148
03/30/2001 7:08 PM
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You don't server on macs. I can tell. Just a thought 
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#70149
03/30/2001 9:39 PM
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Yeah, I have a couple of theories as to what it could be, but I dunno really.. just thought it was weird.. I mean, the site wasn't exactly huge (around 2600 hits a day), wasn't running anything special in terms of scripts, just a news publisher and ubb... Yet somehow they managed to apparently cause a lot of damage, presumably in down time for other sites.. or something..
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#70150
03/30/2001 9:51 PM
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I type Like navaho
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that makes more sense.. downtime can be hazily related to dollars, especially on a server that hosts e-commerce sites.
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#70151
03/31/2001 9:45 AM
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But still, don't know how it could happen, that one site pulled down an entire server?
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#70152
04/01/2001 9:52 PM
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Hey...
maybe they physically damaged it.. with a sledge hammer or something..LOL...
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#70153
04/01/2001 10:55 PM
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Had to have been. I let one of our servers sit at over 100 load avge for over an hour and after a reboot it was fine. And yup, it was just one site that did that. Something about putting a script into an endless loop or something like that. 
Picture perfect penmanship here.
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#70154
04/02/2001 7:38 AM
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#70155
04/02/2001 8:08 AM
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I'd challenge them if i were them, lucia. Make them prove it was them, and if they can't, maybe the judge in a federal court can.
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#70156
04/02/2001 8:17 AM
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Lol, well it's not my problem, given that I left the said site due to the idiocy of the co-webmaster, so it's his problem now  .. I was just curious because I just couldn't figure it out..
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