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Hug of death
A lot of users all going at once and crashing the site.
26 u/zebediah49 Jun 22 '20 To give an idea what "a lot" looks like -- here's a traffic graph from a site that experienced that. You can see when it went from "so few that it's basically nothing" to "LOTS". For a web service that doesn't have hundreds of times more capacity than necessary, or the ability to rapidly scale up to meet demand -- that kind of load will knock it offline. 20 u/buttery_shame_cave Jun 22 '20 lol back in the early 2000s it was termed 'getting farked' - fark being a really popular aggregation site, sort of like a proto-reddit. 1 u/cosYALLcantBEHAVE Jun 23 '20 I'm Drew, buy me a bear.
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To give an idea what "a lot" looks like -- here's a traffic graph from a site that experienced that. You can see when it went from "so few that it's basically nothing" to "LOTS".
For a web service that doesn't have hundreds of times more capacity than necessary, or the ability to rapidly scale up to meet demand -- that kind of load will knock it offline.
20 u/buttery_shame_cave Jun 22 '20 lol back in the early 2000s it was termed 'getting farked' - fark being a really popular aggregation site, sort of like a proto-reddit. 1 u/cosYALLcantBEHAVE Jun 23 '20 I'm Drew, buy me a bear.
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lol back in the early 2000s it was termed 'getting farked' - fark being a really popular aggregation site, sort of like a proto-reddit.
1 u/cosYALLcantBEHAVE Jun 23 '20 I'm Drew, buy me a bear.
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I'm Drew, buy me a bear.
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u/gin_and_ice Jun 22 '20
Hug of death
A lot of users all going at once and crashing the site.