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why was the website down

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"It was down" is very vague. Also, when was this? I didn't notice anything.

Hive's servers go down because computers are not perfect and they can fail at times.
The server could also go down because of maintenance, power outage or system overload (too many users online) etc.

It could also be your internet, unless you got a message specifically saying that the site was down.
 
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Yeah. For the past few hours or so, i kept getting "Sending Request" when trying to connect
 
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Why do you want to know?
Hive's servers go down because computers are not perfect and they can fail at times.

He's just curious, what's with the hostility?

And for the last 2-3 hours Hive has been going offline (And then back online a few mins later) periodically for me, browsers being unable to find/locate it as if it wasn't even there.
 

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I mean, I don't know, back in 2007 or 2008, we used to have a server problem caused by someone (or multiple people) hitting the site with «multiple connections» (I think that's how it was called back then). I noticed it happened when I opened multiple tabs for the Hive. We have an increased flow during the weekend, but I'm not sure if it's really about excess traffic, we've had over 1700 users viewing the website and it seemed to work fine then, as far as I know.
 

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I cannot remember any dates, but last time the site was flakey was an issue with DNS servers at Namecheap, they had something going on there.

Before that, there was a time where we were doing something and by mistake took down the servers network connection so we had to get support to help us :D

But aside from that, the server has been running stable the last year.
 
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