What are the causes of website crashed down?

[blowee]

Companies all over the world have created their own website.A lot are not yet created their sites and registered into different web hosting companies.But some of the website had crashed down due to some reasons.

Anybody knows some of the reasons that makes a website crashed down? I would appreciate your help.

[harrie]

Crash down- can you please elaborate a little more what is your definition of crashing down?

Is there a error when you visit a website?
Are you being taken to a different website?
Does the website even open?


Usually if the website is working fine before, there are chances that some one might have changed some files and now it is not working.

Again, if the web hosting is very slow, you may not be able to load up a website properly and you might not see the entire posts or images.

[johnoxx]

I don't have much more knowledge about it if you receive some useful information share it.

[theshawnchin]

According to me a server problem and other and rather then for your sitecan be use Google Penallty

[blowee]

There are some error in visiting the website.What might be the possible causes of that problem? Can you suggest some remedy on that matter?Thanks a lot.

[harrie]

There are some error in visiting the website.What might be the possible causes of that problem? Can you suggest some remedy on that matter?Thanks a lot.

Errors- are the pictures not being displayed?

Or the home page is not opening up?

There is a good chance that some one messed up with the coding of the website.

[jamsen]

1. Cable tripping – Someone who probably shouldn’t be walking around in a server room trips on a cable.
2. Jolt Cola – Someone spills coffee or Jolt Cola on the web server, or, if things are really bad, beer.
3. DDoS attack – An angry, angst-ridden teenager launches a DDoS attack on your website.
4. Police raid – It happened to The Pirate Bay…
5. Bandwidth – Your web host decides you have consumed enough bandwidth this month and cuts you off.
6. Burnout – Your web server decides to spontaneously combust.
7. Blame it on the weather – The next big hurricane hits the US East Coast.
8. Web server upgrade – Your web host upgrades the web server. Nobody told you and now nothing works. This is strongly connected to point 4…

[blowee]

Thanks a lot everyone. You've given me nice suggestions.

[bidaddy]

Hacker attacks.
Viral traffic (also known as the “Digg effect”)
Deliberate DDOS attacks.
Natural disasters wreaking havoc on your data centers.
A minor mistake in your website's code.
Scheduled server maintenance by your web host.

[manoharparakh]

Take a look at the most common causes of website crashes so you can stay on top of them and keep your website running.

1. Code Errors
2. Virus Attacks
3. Hackers
4. Plugin/Extension Errors
5. Service Provider Error
6. Hosting Error
7. Domain Error
8. Traffic Error

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[stubcreator]

Plugin Error
Code Breaking/Errors
Server/Hosting Provider Error
You Need More Hosting
Massive Traffic Spike
Brute Force Attacks
Expired Domain

[onlinepaystub]

Webmaster Errors that cause website crashes
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS attacks)
Server/Hosting Provider Error
Massive Traffic Spike
Protect Your Website From Downtime

[stubcreator]

Plugin Error
Code Breaking/Errors
Server/Hosting Provider Error
You Need More Hosting
Massive Traffic Spike
Brute Force Attacks
Expired Domain

[Hostfinch]

There are endless reasons why a website could go down. There could be a problem in the code or perhaps there could be a problem with the server.
Websites run on machines and every machine requires a downtime. You can set backups in place. You can take extra precautions. But with a list of a billion things that could go wrong, something is bound to succeed in bringing your website down sooner or later.
Then there are also human errors that need to be considered. People operate and update websites. People maintain the servers your site is hosted on. Just one mistake made by an individual and everything comes crashing down.

[davidsmith21]

There are various causes of website crashed down are given below:
1. Webmaster Errors that cause website crashes
2. Distributed Denial of Service
3. Server/Hosting Provider Error
4. Massive Traffic Spike
5. Protect Your Website From Downtime

[Simi123]

Bad plugin or incompatible plugin. Always add one plugin at a time just in case it messes up your site. If you add a number at once, you won’t know which one is the culprit. Sometimes it can be that two plugins don’t work well together but are fine on their own.

Plugins that take up too many resources or too many plugins. When I was on a shared server with Hostgator, they shut down my site because I was using too many resources. They made me deactivate a number of plugins that they said were a drain on a site’s resources.

Web crawlers. I literally just went through this nightmare 2 days ago. A web crawler from 80legs.com (used by PR and Advertisers according to their site) sent over 300 bots to my site at one time! Even Google would only crawl a site like mine ONCE every 24 hours. Why they had 300 bots on my site I do not know. We told them to lay off and put me on the do not crawl list and my host blocked them.

Hotlinking. I dealt with this issue the day before the web crawler debacle! This is where someone takes an image off your site and puts it on their site without saving it to their own host. I had my grab buttons saved to my server (silly me) and a popular site grabbed my button still hosted on my server and it crashed my site.

Too much traffic. If you get a surge of traffic, it can bring your site down. For instance, one of your posts goes viral on Stumble Upon or you have an extremely popular giveaway that everyone is trying to enter at the same time.

Your hosting plan isn’t enough for your site’s resource usage. You get lots of traffic or use many plugins, you might find your site won’t function properly on a shared server. My site has a large amount of posts so it was too much for the shared server at my host to handle. That’s why I moved to VPS in March. Those unlimited hosting plans are never really unlimited. Read the fine print.

Your hosting company isn’t the greatest. I had a horrific experience with Fat Cow where my site was going down almost every day last year.

Shared server. If another site that you are sharing your server with is taking too many resources, it can cause your site to be slow or go down.

Hacking/malicious pinging. A friend of mine had her blog hacked by an adult website who was stealing her bandwith! It’s terrible that people do that to others.

Your domain expired. Some registrars don’t email you reminders so make sure you keep tabs on when your domain expires and renew! You don’t want to risk losing all your hard work if someone buys your domain.

[dljetarora]

The website crashed due to Hacker Attacks, Virus Attack or in server error

[Sean9568]

The common causes of website crash are:
1. Hosting provider error
2. Expired domain
3. Plugin error
4. Virus attack
5. DDoS attack