[Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org down

[Tomasz Zielonka]

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 09:58:02AM -0400, Paul Hudak wrote:
> Thanks Don.  I alerted our IT staff this morning, and they seem to have 
> things working again, although here is their final response:
> 
>    The web server had over 150 client connections which exceeded
>    its limit. I restarted the web server and all is well.
> 
>    I'll keep and eye on it and see if someone is trying a denial of
>    server attack, or it could be you need a newer faster machine. :-)
> 
> So either Haskell is getting really popular (on a Friday night?) or 
> there's something fishy going on.

Yesterday there was a link to haskell.org on reddit.com,
precisely to http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Simple_unix_tools .
The server experienced something like a slashdot effect.

Best regards
Tomasz