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Eternity in an hour
Pretty much. The idea is that so many people will want to download the mod from here that it will overload the server, causing slow loading times if you can even get the website to load at all.So anyways back to the idea of SA-Sonic crashing the message board, what does that even mean? I'm assuming it means everyone will wanna use it. That's a watered down version of my interpretation anyways.
A watered down version of how it works is that when someone tries to connect to a website, their network sends a request to the server to access the website and download necessary data to do so. The server then sends back the ok, and then uploads the necessary data to display the web page. However, when many people are flooding the server with these requests all at once, it has to split it's work giving out the necessary information among all of them, slowing the upload speeds and thus limiting download speeds, and eventually it can even get so overburdened that it ceases to work entirely.
Because this can be exploited maliciously, many websites also have special protections to help safeguard against this.