Why is Twitter down?

Twitter went down today because of a DDoS attack. Distributed Denial of Service attacks are requests that hit a server continulously until they overload the server. When a flood of requests comes to a website they bog down the server and mixed in with normal visitors, this usually causes the server to crash.

Most servers have switches to transfer, what appears to be legitimate traffic and I would think Twitter does too. But with the amount of traffic it looks like is hitting the server, it just can’t keep up.

While this post was to tell you what happened in simplified terms – I should have titled it, the day 1000s got their work completed.

About SEOWebHelp

SEOWebHelp was created to help you gain SEO knowledge to help catapult your business to the top of the search engines.
This entry was posted in Twitter and tagged . Bookmark the permalink.

One Response to Why is Twitter down?

  1. Pingback: Web Designer SEO

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*


*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>