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When: Jan 2nd, 2018: 10:07 am
Why: RChain was plugged on CoinMarketCap by Ian Balina - and we received over 18K new visits to the site.
Technical Cause: Still looking into but .. either high burst of traffic triggered event in intrusion mitigation system and a back-off period began or high iowait existed on host due to lack of resources.
Event log
10:06 am: Kitblake reports in Discord #admin channel that a Tg user is reporting that Rchain.coop is down and confirms outage. Notifies Patrick727
10:07 am: Nash Foster sends telegram notification to Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed) : RChain website down
10:20 am: Patrick727 confirms that the site is back up.
Info
site: https://www.rchain.coop/
squarespace.com uses a load-balancer or ADC(Application Delivery Controller) (probably NGINX). I would think it caches site in ADC and plays it from memory but maybe not
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