[Az-Geocaching] Geocaching.com server issues

[Brian Cluff]

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.
> 
> Been getting this error all morning:
> 
> 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.

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek