Outage - Feb 3rd 2005

[Adi007]

Hi all!

Just thought I'd make a quick announcement because I've been fielding a lot of PMs and emails about the outage we experienced last night.

The outage was caused by the load on the server that bcUK is hosted on hitting +80% load (normal load in the region of 1 - 4%) and the plug was pulled to prevent this causing problems. Preliminary investigations lead us to believe that this was caused by a flood of search engine bots hitting the site and possibly causing a script to loop out of control.

No data was lost and no user accounts were affected. All services should be back up and running now and you should see little to no difference.

We have taken steps to hopefully make this issue a thing of the past.

Enjoy! :biggthump

 

[Paganwolf]

:shock: something from star trek springs to mind!! well done for holding us together guys!! :biggthump

 

[tomtom]

there were 214 spiders on the other night.. i wondered if that would have any effect!? :spider:

 

[bambodoggy]

Nice one Adi....what you said is pretty much gobbledy gook to me but nice one for sorting it out... You techie's Rock! :You_Rock_

 

[hootchi]

Nice one Adi....what you said is pretty much gobbledy gook to me but nice one for sorting it out... You techie's Rock! :You_Rock_

Me too :rolmao: What is a spider? :?:

Thanks all :super:

 

[Kath]

Me too :rolmao: What is a spider? :?:

Thanks all :super:

:spider: Spiders are the programs search engines use to 'crawl' around the Internet. They send everything they find back to the search engine, which uses a lot of the computer's resources, there's usually one or two on at any time but sometimes they descend in droves! Slows everything down for ALL the websites on that computer (not just us!) and generally spoils our fun! :?:

 

[bambodoggy]

Sounds like you need to invent a cyber spider eating bird type thingy! :rolmao: I'm so not technical is unreal!!!!

 

[Kath]

Sounds like you need to invent a cyber spider eating bird type thingy! :rolmao:

:rolmao: If only ... !!

 

[tomtom]

maybe we should hire this guy to scare them off....

 

[Adi007]

Sounds like you need to invent a cyber spider eating bird type thingy! :rolmao: I'm so not technical is unreal!!!!

:rolmao: :biggthump

 

[Adi007]

maybe we should hire this guy to scare them off....

He'll do! Just what we were looking for. Gimme his address and he can be Admin!