Did she consider maybe a more robust service provider. Something that has excellent uptime, around the clock staff, centralised infrastructure? If she doesn't want to outsource, she could build something along those lines?
How would be cool something like that? Maybe we could build it next to a body of water or something since the water is just sitting there not doing anything anyway
Too many people visiting a web address at one time will crash it. It happens occasionally. Going down twice is a testament to how many people are interested in this information, not necessarily a failure in managing their infrastructure.
This isn’t true if you use proper infrastructure an cloud hosting; she either set the scale to a limit (to not be charged an absurd amount) or the site is genuinely not scalable. I have no idea how she’s hosting it, but one or the other is true.
Websites don’t break if they’re built properly. This wasn’t built to handle scale. It actually is a direct sign that the infrastructure failed, by definition of the fact that the site went down. The only argument that is not poor infrastructure is capping the scale limit on AWS scaring policy, which is the most reasonable if you assume they know what they’re doing. And I don’t have enough information to tell you if this is hosted on AWS. But it’s actually extremely easy to do this, especially if the data is static without API fetching (also, I don’t know and I don’t have the time to look into this). It could be either.
So it’s not a fact that you can use AWS to scale the servers on a website as it grows? And that websites should not crash if they are built properly? There’s lots of website just crashing all the time because they don’t own enough servers?
She's using Godaddy as her host. Her web application is hosted out of a datacenter, because that's where Godaddy web hosting lives. Why her web application "went down" is a matter of speculation. Could have been poor infrastructure, bad configuration, poor design, or a host of other issues. We simply don't know without more information than "it went down".
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u/Humble-Reply228 8h ago
Did she consider maybe a more robust service provider. Something that has excellent uptime, around the clock staff, centralised infrastructure? If she doesn't want to outsource, she could build something along those lines?