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Discover LudwigThe phrase "server offline" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation where a computer server is not functioning or accessible. Example: "I'm sorry, I can't access my email right now. The server is offline."
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UCSD's Zhang adds that Google, Facebook, and other Web services could greatly amplify the impact of an attack, perhaps helping to knock a target website or computer server offline in a denial-of-service attack.
In the parlance of network security, digital deception is known as a type of "active defense," a controversial and sometimes ill-defined approach that could include techniques as aggressive as knocking a server offline.
There are several ways to ensure fault tolerance for ISA servers in the event of a server crash or the necessity of taking a server offline for maintenance or upgrade.
With no contact information for the spammer — surprise, surprise — we asked the hosting provider, Awknet, to pull the server offline.
One blogger recently investigated what had sent a mail server offline only to discover mistakenly re-routed traffic was the cause.
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As the company had rejected all offers, it decided to close us down immediately and take the servers offline the day the decision was made.
The worker was supposed to take a small number of servers offline, but made a mistake and took more servers out than intended including two that were used to power fundamental processes used across the entire system.
A team member was doing a bit of maintenance on Amazon Web Services Tuesday, trying to speed up the billing system, when he or she tapped in the wrong codes — and inadvertently took a few more servers offline than the procedure was supposed to, Amazon said in a statement Thursday.
But when a web site is under attack, its only viable defense may be to take its servers offline, which, in the short term, can cost it money in lost revenue and productivity and, in the long term, could hurt its credibility.
We're bringing the servers offline for emergency maintenance.
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