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by Santosh83 1644 days ago
During the first crash immediately after the initial start of the tournament, the entire site did indeed go offline for a few minutes. Even address resolution failed. Then things went smoothly for about an hour after which the 2nd crash came. This one just seemed to affect the particular tournament (participants couldn't get fresh pairings) while the rest of the site was still working, as the article mentions.
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Ah I see. That makes sense.

Would be interesting to know what caused the entire site to go down in the beginning. Wonder if it was just too much traffic.