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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SavageRobby" data-source="post: 3706180" data-attributes="member: 51573">That totally depends on your level of technical expertise, how much planning time you had, and what your server (both hardware and software) architecture looks like. Some setups are relatively easy to scale - alert your hosting company (most do burstable bandwidth), slave a few reader databases, clone some web servers, throw a load balancer in and your good to go. Some are poorly designed for scalability, and incrementally adding capability takes an act of Congress (and even then, is about as effective). After the many and various civil disasters/bombings/terrorist acts, a number of the news sites, even after recording record traffic, manage to stay up (even if just barely) - all the while serving far more video than usual.Given that they claim this has been in the works since 2005, that Gencon has been a known date for quite awhile, and that these are the technological whizzes that couldn't manage to keep the search function working on their forums for something like 2 years I'm guessing is has to do more with poor ability to scale than anything else. What is interesting from a technological perspective is that only the D&D portions of the site (and just the content portions, not the forums) are down. The Magic, Star Wars and Dreamblade portions are all up.</blockquote>