Off-the-Air.com incident

[reflectionofpower]

What was this all about? I came on here and BOOM, no talkchess.com?

[Raphexon]

So we could realize just how pathetic we would be without!

[Guenther]

What was this all about? I came on here and BOOM, no talkchess.com?

http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.p ... 38#p874848

[Eelco de Groot]

Good to see Lonnie back! There might be a relation with people searching old posts as CTF was pulled. I could not access Talkchess temporarily , before any crashes happened, with "Too many connections" and I happened to use the search function at the time. It did not crash and probably this was just the server trying to limit load, but still. I was using one account on a very slow computer. Maybe 5 HTML pages in all. Hardly a big load. As this is not the first time, even with more servers, I think it might happen again. The combination of a shop and the present state of antiquated software for this board is IMO fragile and that is just based on my own experiences.

[reflectionofpower]

Good to see Lonnie back! There might be a relation with people searching old posts as CTF was pulled. I could not access Talkchess temporarily , before any crashes happened, with "Too many connections" and I happened to use the search function at the time. It did not crash and probably this was just the server trying to limit load, but still. I was using one account on a very slow computer. Maybe 5 HTML pages in all. Hardly a big load. As this is not the first time, even with more servers, I think it might happen again. The combination of a shop and the present state of antiquated software for this board is IMO fragile and that is just based on my own experiences.

I am always around here ... just lurking and if something strikes me fancy I'll make a comment on it. Thanks for the info on what happened.