Author: Brian Cluff Date: To: listserv Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching.com server issues
Brian Casteel wrote: > By now I'm sure most of you have noticed the crawling speed that the gc.com website has been running at for the last few weeks. Being /.'ed didn't help either, and now the site is completely down, due to either DDoS or they've finally tapped out the server's capabilities.
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> Been getting this error all morning:
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> HTTP Error 500-13 - Server too busy
> Internet Information Services
My guess would be that Jeremy either has a runaway process that slowly
eats the machine alive, or the site is getting some form of Denial Of
Server (DOS) attack.
I'm betting on the run away process myself. I know that it's happened
to us more than once.
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