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[[Image:CPUquota.png|thumb|right|260px|The dread event.]]
The '''Grey Screen of Annoyance''' refers to a once-common phenomenon on [[MafiaScum.net]]. Our forum gets a lot of traffic, and at peak times of the day we sometimes exceed the bandwidth provided for us by our hosting service, [[bluehost]]. When that happens, the entire site becomes unavailable for 5-10 minutes, replaced with the grey message shown to the right.

This was much more common before we upgraded to a higher-bandwidth server in early 2007; now it seems to happen once every few weeks, rather than several times a day. Of course, the new hosting package costs more money, so users may wish to [http://www.mafiascum.net/donation.html donate] to help defray [[mith]]'s costs.

See also [http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2467 this thread] for a history of our recent growth, which led to the greater prevalence of this problem.

In early 2009 we switched to a new host, which has completely solved this problem.

Update: And now we deal with the White Screen of Senility. Grrarh.

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