The Sigil
Mr. 3000 (Words per post)
Technical difficulties...
By a quirk of fate, I happened to be on the site about 5 min before it was shut down... some of the php database calls were breaking (I am not super-familiar with PHP, but it appeared to me that a call had been made to the database that locked into an infinite loop - you could view products but could not lock in or purchase)... also, some of the product info (dynamically loaded onto the front page) was not showing up but instead returning PHP file calling errors. I tried logging in and couldn't.
When I checked back 2-3 min later, the "we are having technical difficulties page was up."
Again, I am not a PHP programmer, but my guess is that somehow their database and/or PHP goofed (Whether that was bad code, a server flaw, a hacker, or whatever I have no idea) and/or they inadvertently put themselves into an infinite loop... which may have required a complete shutdown of the server (and if they are hosted off-site from their offices, that can take some time).
That's all the extra info I can add as someone who saw the site start to break down.
--The Sigil
Cergorach said:
By a quirk of fate, I happened to be on the site about 5 min before it was shut down... some of the php database calls were breaking (I am not super-familiar with PHP, but it appeared to me that a call had been made to the database that locked into an infinite loop - you could view products but could not lock in or purchase)... also, some of the product info (dynamically loaded onto the front page) was not showing up but instead returning PHP file calling errors. I tried logging in and couldn't.
When I checked back 2-3 min later, the "we are having technical difficulties page was up."
Again, I am not a PHP programmer, but my guess is that somehow their database and/or PHP goofed (Whether that was bad code, a server flaw, a hacker, or whatever I have no idea) and/or they inadvertently put themselves into an infinite loop... which may have required a complete shutdown of the server (and if they are hosted off-site from their offices, that can take some time).
That's all the extra info I can add as someone who saw the site start to break down.
--The Sigil
