Linux simultaneous

[Lectrician]

If you host a website on a linux platform, how many people can access that site at once?

Reason I ask - I run a forum, which has run for a very long time with no trouble at all.

Recently the forum is down from time to time, and when it is, I still have DSL access outward from my home, but the forum and site just do not respond.

I was wondering if too many BOTS where viewing, causing the linux to prevent further viewers so to speak.

Is this plausable?

 

[tlarkin]

If you host a website on a linux platform, how many people can access that site at once?

Reason I ask - I run a forum, which has run for a very long time with no trouble at all.

Recently the forum is down from time to time, and when it is, I still have DSL access outward from my home, but the forum and site just do not respond.

I was wondering if too many BOTS where viewing, causing the linux to prevent further viewers so to speak.

Is this plausable?

no, unless it was a denial of service attack

if you have a website, pay someone to host it, hosting it yourself on a DSL connection is not good. Also, you are leaving out a lot of details so I am not sure what your question and what your problems are.

You need to use many more words describing exactly what is happening, what you use, apache, php????

 

[Lectrician]

The server runs Apache, and on this I have YaBB2.1 running.

It has run for years (previously YaBB1.4).

Only recently having problems.