A self-killing web site requested by a customer (2011)
> The load now rebalanced to four remaining machines is just far too big, and they all die as a result.<p>Perhaps I'm missing something terribly obvious here, but why would that happen?<p>I can understand requests being dropped and processing-times worsening, but a full system-wide crash?<p><i>edit</i> My bad, I'd missed this in the article:<p>> they could have rewritten their web site code so it didn't send the machines into a many-GB-deep swap fest. They could have done that without getting any hosting people involved. They didn't, and so now I have a story