# Website Down

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-down/659920>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [June 2, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-down/659920 "2013-06-02T04:00:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![IceQube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@IceQube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IceQube)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-down/659920/1 "2013-06-02T04:00:22Z")

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I have the SD bookmarked. The bookmark URL is simply [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com). However when I use the bookmark, I noticed that recently, a lot of time it’ll lead me to a page saying that the SD is down for maintenance. If I simply type in [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com) into my address bar or visit the SD via Google and not my bookmark, I can always get to the site just fine. What’s up? :dubious:

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**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-down/659920/2 "2013-06-02T04:09:04Z")

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Maybe the bookmarked page is linked to a cookie gone bad.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-down/659920/3 "2013-06-02T04:34:07Z")

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> **[Board performance problems](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=692185)**
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> Rising board traffic (currently ~14M pageviews/mo) coupled with the increasing frequency of outages, error messages and other glitches has led the STM tech staff to conclude we’ve outgrown our current server capacity. We’re getting estimates and...

Sad to say, until we get this corrected there will be times when you try to access the board in any number of ways and you will not get there.

As Ed said “it appears we have outgrown our current server capacity.”

And llike Ed also said, “Till then we request your patience and apologize for any inconvenience.”

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-down/659920/4 "2013-06-02T07:55:17Z")

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Clear your internet cache.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-down/659920/5 "2013-06-02T15:04:17Z")

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There were database errors which took it down for about 20 minutes around 12.30 am CST this morning.

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**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-down/659920/6 "2013-06-02T16:00:47Z")

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> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#):
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> Clear your internet cache.

This is the correct answer.