The phrase "server went down" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
It typically refers to a system malfunction which causes the server to become unavailable. For example: "Yesterday, our server went down for several hours causing significant disruption to our operations."
The two spent nine hours talking online that night until the game's server went down for maintenance.
Last December, when his French host server went down without warning and the station was de-listed from iTunes, he was forced to beg again.
Finally, Flowtab's server went down, scuttling the entire operation.
And then Wikipedia decided to wuss out today and our backend server went down".
Gordon recounted one night when "something happened… a server went down… and the rockets [from Facebook] were on the radar".
If a CnC server went down, the coders would update a new binary with the new IPs.
People were made of tougher stuff back then – we complain when our internet server goes down.
If a web server goes down and takes your site with it, or if an order is lost because your apparently smooth web shopfront has only the most tenuous connection with your back office, there is no hiding place.
"I learned a ton in college, but I'm a hyper-practical person in a lot of ways, and you're dealing with the day-to-day challenges of things like, 'How do you help a student across the country?' Or dealing with the pressure of the server going down while you're in the middle of a sociology lecture".
If one server goes down, students are passed to a server in one of the other seven locations.
The problem, he argues, is that DNS is a finicky system, and when a DNS server goes down, it can shut down the connection for an entire network.
