Bitfloor back up, but no trading

[NikolaTesla]

https://bitfloor.com/

Entire site replaced with this message:

The servers are misbehaving.

Our engineers are looking into it.

Makes me a little less worried about the fiat I have deposited there.

[simplydt]

https://bitfloor.com/

Entire site replaced with this message:

The servers are misbehaving.

Our engineers are looking into it.

Makes me a little less worried about the fiat I have deposited there.

Sometimes by misbehaving servers they mean someone accidentally dropped a database

[NikolaTesla]

I'm sure they are smart enough to set up permissions do everything via stored procedures. Besides, what are the odds someone would actually do a DROP DATABASE without knowing? It's not the kind of thing you just accidentally do...

[ErebusBat]

I'm sure they are smart enough to set up permissions do everything via stored procedures. Besides, what are the odds someone would actually do a DROP DATABASE without knowing? It's not the kind of thing you just accidentally do...

I did an unconstrained DELETE FROM TABLE in a production DB one time.

Luckily it was Oracle and I was able to kill the connection which caused the TX to roll back...

[Hawker]

So the increase in volume from mtgox being down caused them to fall over as well.

It seems the exchanges are not able to scale up as bitcoin increases in popularity. 

[NikolaTesla]

Well one thing is for sure. Once the dust settles, the bitcoin community is going to have to have a long hard look at what needs to be done in order to make sure this never happens again. It may be a simple matter of creating more exchanges that are more reliable, or it may be a matter of needing to tweak the rules a little it for how coins are mined and how many, which I know isn't a very popular opinion around here, but we can all agree some things need to be done.