Why were the forums down yesterday.

[FishandChips]

I just want answers.

 

[PencilVoid]

The servers ran out of bandwidth. This happens when too many people are accessing the site.

 

[Icarus]

The servers ran out of bandwidth. This happens when too many people are accessing the site.

What is the theoretical limit?

 

[clairebun]

What is the theoretical limit?

From what I can tell from Alam's comments, we hit 5 terrabytes

 

[cozyraf]

From what I can tell from Alam's comments, we hit 5 terrabytes

Wow, thats actually a lot! o_0 Does this repeat that much, or it's rare to have?

 

[clairebun]

wow, thats actually a lot! O_0 does this repeat that much, or it's rare to have?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ♫

 

[Hacker 101]

Holyshred that a lot of data

 

[Unknownlight]

(Clearly, it was caused by too many people downloading Roger's map.)

5 TB over what period of time? Weekly? Monthly?

 

[Icarus]

From what I can tell from Alam's comments, we hit 5 terrabytes

I'm sorry, I meant what is the maximum number of users on the forum at the same time?

 

[SSNCaleb]

I'm sorry, I meant what is the maximum number of users on the forum at the same time?

I'm not sure what you mean by total ammount of members or members that are online.

 

[Icarus]

I'm not sure what you mean by total ammount of members or members that are online.

By this I mean

This happens when too many people are accessing the site.

So, how many people accessing the site is the limit before the error happens?

 

[amperbee]

It depends on how much total information have the servers sent to every user rather than how many people have connected at once.
Loading the website itself counts as information.