This could happen. The vast majority of web servers run Linux, and Linux gets wonky when certain things fill to capacity. Also, unlike the longer Windows reboot, a Linux system can boot in well under half a minute. Can't speak for what thedonald.win runs on, but if I had to put money on it, it would be on it running Linux.
One of the Linux directories that can fuck up a system if it fills is /var. One of the /var subdirectories is /var/log, which holds all the system's log files. If /var/log isn't placed on a separate mount, and it fills /var to capacity, a lot of weird things can happen. I don't know what happens at the user end, as I have only definitively seen this at the backend, but from a sysadmin standpoint I've seen a lot of weird behavior I don't exactly understand, as well as stuff I do, when /var is full. The inability to print or send mail I do understand, as both those functions are firmly rooted in /var/spool/lpd and /var/spool/mail respectively, I have also seen an inability to escalate to root from the server itself, which resolved once /var had space (can't explain that readily). You literally have to logon to the server as root to even fix the problem (a fairly huge security risk in any sensible company). Of course, I have also seen /var full and still been able to escalate to root as well.
It literally happened to me yesterday when one of our new devs decided that the root filesystem looked like just the PERFECT place to install a bunch of new bullshit, filling it all the way up! Weirdness started to happen, but my lightning fast super awesome sysop powers somehow enabled me to clean up the mess before anything crashed or got eaten by OOMkiller.
Shadilay, fellow sysadmin! I guess we're called sysadmins or something these days. I still think sysop sounded better. More wizardly somehow...
I think it's a DDOS attack. Multiple pro-Trump websites went down at the same time. Seems coordinated.
Or some log file grew too large and used up diskspace crashing the server for a minute or two before getting manually [or automatically] cleaned up.
Or it was the aliens again. DEPORT THE ALIENS!
This could happen. The vast majority of web servers run Linux, and Linux gets wonky when certain things fill to capacity. Also, unlike the longer Windows reboot, a Linux system can boot in well under half a minute. Can't speak for what thedonald.win runs on, but if I had to put money on it, it would be on it running Linux.
One of the Linux directories that can fuck up a system if it fills is /var. One of the /var subdirectories is /var/log, which holds all the system's log files. If /var/log isn't placed on a separate mount, and it fills /var to capacity, a lot of weird things can happen. I don't know what happens at the user end, as I have only definitively seen this at the backend, but from a sysadmin standpoint I've seen a lot of weird behavior I don't exactly understand, as well as stuff I do, when /var is full. The inability to print or send mail I do understand, as both those functions are firmly rooted in /var/spool/lpd and /var/spool/mail respectively, I have also seen an inability to escalate to root from the server itself, which resolved once /var had space (can't explain that readily). You literally have to logon to the server as root to even fix the problem (a fairly huge security risk in any sensible company). Of course, I have also seen /var full and still been able to escalate to root as well.
It literally happened to me yesterday when one of our new devs decided that the root filesystem looked like just the PERFECT place to install a bunch of new bullshit, filling it all the way up! Weirdness started to happen, but my lightning fast super awesome sysop powers somehow enabled me to clean up the mess before anything crashed or got eaten by OOMkiller.
Shadilay, fellow sysadmin! I guess we're called sysadmins or something these days. I still think sysop sounded better. More wizardly somehow...
"You knew I was a snake when you took me in." Cloudflare shut down 4chan, they'll do it here.
i bet you it's mostly due to such increase traffic due to trump's rally so many people using this site right now
That's this site being down, not cloudflare. It literally said that in the image.