Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Why Do Websites Just STOP Working?”.
Wouldn’T it be nice of everything in life, we’re a hundred percent reliable. I mean your car, your computer, your flaky girlfriend who swears there’s no one else in the picture. Unfortunately, few things are truly reliable and that includes the websites that you count on to be around when you need them, even though sometimes go down but Riley, don’t most big sites live on powerful geo replicated servers dedicated to web hosting? How does this happen? Well, there are plenty of reasons, a simple but common issue is that some websites aren’t actually set up to deal with tons of traffic. You see just like your home, PC and internet connection. A web hosting server only has so much bandwidth on its incoming connection and also only has so much processing power to handle all of those requests.
So if a smaller website isn’t equipped for a sudden influx of visitors, because some celebrities compromising photos got posted there, you might have a hard time accessing it, and you also might want to think about your life choices. A similar but more malicious cause of website difficulties is the dreaded DDoS attack. So the idea here is to do what we just described, overwhelm a server with requests, rendering it effectively inaccessible except it’s on purpose. The first D in DDoS stands for distributed, meaning many connected devices, some of which may be part of a botnet attack a server at once.
The motivations behind these types of attacks vary greatly as wise old, Alfred put it. Some men just want to watch a well pone, and you can learn more about them right up here, but a server being too busy to handle requests is just one reason it can go down. Sometimes there can be problems with the hosting service itself, which can be caused by anything from a hardware or software problem to a malware attack to even a natural disaster. And that’s where things really hit the fan. Because if one of the web’s major hosting providers is affected, the outages can be widespread, for example, CloudFlare handles hosting for a billion IP addresses and 10 % of the Fortune 1000. So a problem with a service like that can cause outages or slowdowns all over the Internet, as it did on July, 2nd 2019, when a ton of sites went down due to high spike in CPU usage.
Another common issue is a problem with the site’s address. Sometimes a website will need to change its IP address, which you can learn more about up here, so trying to punch in the domain name that you’re used to will result in the browser being pointed to the wrong IP address and likely a page not found error. Until the domain name system or DNS gets updated to reflect the new address, other kinds of simple user errors are surprisingly common. A system administrator can forget to renew the domain name: leave a cable unplugged, miss configure ports, neglect to set up backups and even just spill. Their diet, coke onto a server rakion klutz and finally, sometimes the issue doesn’t stem from a problem at all. Sites need maintenance to update code or hardware, and often times they have to be taken offline for a short while, while this happens now many organizations have plans for this to minimize downtime, such as performing maintenance at times when they’re not expecting much traffic and larger companies, Like Google can serve users from an alternate location if one of their other servers needs to be worked on.
However, if an error occurs during an update, downtime can last much longer than expected, and a final tip is that if you can’t access a website but you’re not sure whether the site is actually down or not, there’s a great site called down for everyone, or just Me calm that you can use to check in on all the most important hotspots on the web. Speaking of checking in you’re gon na want to check out today’s sponsor drop they’re collaborating with Sennheiser on the PC 37 X gaming headset. It’S got an open back design with the same driver design used in the HD 598 and HD 6000 headphones to get clear audio for gaming and music. It’S mic is optimized to handle unpleasant pops and hisses and also features a noise canceling.
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