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So, the forums are back up now. Just wondering why they were down.

  • 12.04.2006 8:19 PM PDT

Well, basically everything was down. PM system was down, My Xbox feature on Xbox.com was also down...

  • 12.04.2006 8:21 PM PDT
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Yeah, as far as I know, we didn't get any advanced warning. That's unusual for this site, they always warn us about these things. Must have been an emergency or something. They probably moved the site to another server again or something.

  • 12.04.2006 8:21 PM PDT

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Posted by: xTr1GGeR HaPPYx
Well, basically everything was down. PM system was down, My Xbox feature on Xbox.com was also down...



The internet died did it?

  • 12.04.2006 8:22 PM PDT

WARNING: HALO 3 FORUM OVERLOAD. That's basically what I thought of it.

  • 12.04.2006 8:26 PM PDT

It was going slow a little before the h3 commercial. I'm guessing it was due to the traffic trying to post.

  • 12.04.2006 8:27 PM PDT

I'd guess the site got overloaded

Right Before The site (parts) went down It was really laggy and there were hundreds, I kid you not, of "H3 Commercial" posts. The site probably temporarily took itself offline to lower traffic and save itself from what would take weeks to untangle. (Database Chaos). The site was really laggy just before the features went down. Now it's fine.

In the H3 forum the commercial threads take up the first 6 pages!

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  • 12.04.2006 8:27 PM PDT

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My gamertag is SHADOWRIDERJP.

It could have been an overload. I don't know though.

  • 12.04.2006 8:30 PM PDT
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I'm glad that the Beta thing is being hosted on another site. I would hate to think what all that traffic might do to the bandwidth here.

Maybe the webmaster returned from one of his research missions (drunk as usual) and stumbled into the server room. He probably fell and pulled out a bunch of essential cables or something. Damn alcoholics. Oh well, I can't stay mad at him. He's just too cool.

  • 12.04.2006 8:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: evilcam
I'm glad that the Beta thing is being hosted on another site. I would hate to think what all that traffic might do to the bandwidth here...


*shudders*

Our account's would be purged. Were not that important anyways.

:-(

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  • 12.04.2006 8:41 PM PDT
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You can thank those fools in the Halo 3 Forum.

  • 12.04.2006 8:53 PM PDT

Posted by: DeeJ
Why don't you just give me ONE SECOND!

ICEMAN said it was all the H3 stuff.

  • 12.04.2006 8:54 PM PDT
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I'm also thinking it's excessive posting about the commercial.

I haven't seen a more active forum in my life!! About 50 new threads in a matter of minutes.........

*edit* Halochick beat me to what I was gonna say.......sorta..LoLz

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  • 12.04.2006 8:55 PM PDT

If the announcement trailer posting didn't overload the site, then the commercial posting didn't either.

  • 12.04.2006 8:58 PM PDT
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I havn't gone into the H3 forum yet so i don't know how much content there was. But we survived Eon8 and 7thwar.net with no problems, and there was a lot of crap being posted when those emerged. If those didn't kill the site, and a little commercial about h3 did, we are in trouble when the game actually comes out.

  • 12.04.2006 8:59 PM PDT

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Posted by: ICEMAN ASSASS1N
I'm also thinking it's excessive posting about the commercial.

I haven't seen a more active forum in my life!! About 50 new threads in a matter of minutes.........

*edit* Halochick beat me to what I was gonna say.......sorta..LoLz


were you here when the H3 forum was opened. It coincided with the Knowledge of H3 going public.

it was 200 pages of crap in less then 24 hours. Never again do i wish to see this happen.

  • 12.04.2006 9:03 PM PDT

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I don't think it was a traffic issue. This kind of thing has happened before, like when the I love Bees thing came around. The forums were changed a little bit to help deal with the spam.

  • 12.04.2006 9:04 PM PDT
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This site should easilly be able to handle the traffic. When this site was created (new hottness) there was over 1000 posts on the first day, and it took it all just fine. That was a while ago, so I don't think that the bandwidth would actually get any worse as time goes on (and now that Bungie games have made over $600,000,000).

But again, IDK.

  • 12.04.2006 9:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: Reiginko
Good to see at least somebody takes this place seriously

I am sincerely disappointed in everyone except JIMH. JIMH, have a gold star.


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Posted by: SpaceGhostFlyer
WARNING: HALO 3 FORUM OVERLOAD. That's basically what I thought of it.

Me, too. I think the Bungie servers weren't prepared for this. It wasn't a complete shutdown. Sometimes I could navigate just fine, then it would just go to a standstill.

  • 12.04.2006 9:17 PM PDT

I wonder why... I think it was the overload of too much Halo 3 commercial threads.

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  • 12.04.2006 9:26 PM PDT

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or you know what could have happened.

Bungie could have been like "it's about to air, lets slow down the forums"

then it aired and the bugnie guys are like " HOLY ZOMGWTFBBQ that salot fo people's watching, lets shut off teh forumzorzs to sea wut twill happned!!1!!one!!!eleven!!!"

It's the ultimate plan.

And yes, they spoke in typos as well.

  • 12.04.2006 9:30 PM PDT

I have no idea why, but it annoyed me.

  • 12.04.2006 11:14 PM PDT