I took my host down for 14.5 hours straight. [Archive]

mike475

03-07-2008, 08:45 PM

Epic.

They couldnt handle the traffic on one of my forums.
Server over heated.

Around 5000 sites went down,
Hundreds of people annoyed.
869 minutes.

Hehehe.

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iUnknown

03-07-2008, 08:52 PM

Epic.

They couldnt handle the traffic on one of my forums.
Server over heated.

Around 5000 sites went down,
Hundreds of people annoyed.
869 minutes.

Hehehe.

Who is your host? Simply using your forum made their server physically overheat?

IDontKnow

03-07-2008, 09:10 PM

This isn't REALLY something to be proud of now, is it?

mike475

03-07-2008, 09:21 PM

It's Hosting Puppy.

"Hi,

Your account had to be suspended. Your site has been utilizing excessing resources - MySQL in particular - causing the CPU on the server to overheat which is bad news. We saw that it was mainly due to your PHPBB forum as we found several of these MySQL process..."

Not really, but I found it amazing it was like, because of me lol.

Flisker

03-07-2008, 11:27 PM

"PHPBB" explains it all to be honest, That is some bloated software. But what kinda of CPU were they using? P3?

dotMark

05-07-2008, 10:05 AM

They host around 5000 websites on 1 server? What type of spec machines have they got going there? lol.

le harry

05-07-2008, 12:01 PM

OH MAN THIS IS EPIC STUFF... too bad i have no idea about any of this server crap

today

06-07-2008, 03:07 PM

OH MAN THIS IS EPIC STUFF... too bad i have no idea about any of this server crap
Lol.

Ditto :(

Well done mateee!!!!!

Josh-H

07-07-2008, 06:22 PM

Hmm.. Sounds fishy to me.

VPSwow

07-07-2008, 06:26 PM

What host was this?

Hitman

07-07-2008, 06:29 PM

It's Hosting Puppy.

"Hi,

Your account had to be suspended. Your site has been utilizing excessing resources - MySQL in particular - causing the CPU on the server to overheat which is bad news. We saw that it was mainly due to your PHPBB forum as we found several of these MySQL process..."

Not really, but I found it amazing it was like, because of me lol.

What host was this?

Hosting Puppy, he said.

Well done... :eusa_clap Although I wouldn't be exactly proud of it.

VPSwow

07-07-2008, 06:34 PM

Aha ;) Im blinde Sorry.

Stephen08

07-07-2008, 07:11 PM

A server with that many websites running from it? :S I bet no one actually told you that loads of sites went down bit dramatic of you to say that lol

mike475

07-07-2008, 08:43 PM

A server with that many websites running from it? :S I bet no one actually told you that loads of sites went down bit dramatic of you to say that lol
well i estimate.

then again, i cant estimate good.
:D

Stephen!

07-07-2008, 08:46 PM

It's their fault for not provided adequite cooling for the machine.