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Originally Posted by honeychile
And then, there was the whole Prune Tacos scenario!  |
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Originally Posted by *winter*
I didn’t even know about Prunetacos…one day I was randomly reading an article about Ivins and I saw “Greekchat!” It was a weird moment.
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Originally Posted by Benzgirl
Prune Tacos was by far the Creepiest thread.
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For me the prunetacos news was probably the absolutely most jaw dropping moment with GC.
I recall checking on things with GC after having not been on the site for a few days. Nothing was working at all. Not a single page or image would load.
So, I got ready to work on fixing whatever server problem was causing this. But, I couldn't even login via SSH to work on things. That got me thinking maybe it was some really bad hardware failure, maybe all the hard drives were trashed & irrecoverable or something like that.
I ended up having the datacenter pull the plug on the server to see if it would restart & get going again, which it did. Fortunately there was no major hardware issue to deal with that time. Looked like it was just a big traffic burst which completely jammed the server up for a bit.
After that had happened I remember thinking that maybe some major site linked to GC or maybe GC was just growing more site traffic wise.
Some GCer, probably a moderator although I don't recall who, mentioned that I need to search the news for GreekChat.
So I went to Google News, searched for GC and...
That was quite a shocking jaw dropping moment to see/learn that.
I recall there being close to 4000 news article results returned in that Google News search. Newspapers all over the US, probably mostly their digital editions, had short articles mentioning GC and referencing the larger story reported by The Washington Post. There must have been so much traffic from all those articles that it completely seized up the server for a while.