Can lack of capacity planning destroy a web page?

Question

Can you link the information on the page that is gone to a new page?

Instead of link to a new page I meant copy to a new page.

Up until last week there were two Web pages for a scientific paper that was published by the Chinese Medical Journal. Probably hardly anyone accessed the pages, but recently people were informed the paper and tried to read it. At first the link was intermittent, then it was unavailable but listed in yahoo and google and now it is completely gone. So could the page be destroyed because people were trying to view it? It is from Beijing.

Thank you thebestnamesarealready!

Answer 1

what you are describing saounds like the server was not set to cope with the high volume of traffic that the link provided and as such it may have crashed the server.
or the server could simply be blocking access to that web page fom all external sources. or the publisher may have removed the page from the server.
there is no real way of knowing without forst contacting the publisher or the server on question.
only they will be able to help you.

and as for underestimating demand for a web page or site then it can not destroy the data on the server but the high volume could cause a system overload and so crash the internet connection.

and if you have a copy of the paper you could post that to another server and submit the link to the paper to the search engines with one of the many submission tols/utilities on the market some freeware, some share ware some just available to buy.

the remedies and solutions to this problem go on.

good luck.

Answer 2

No not destroyed however if too many people access the page it is possible it might have been taken down or the websserver that hosts the paper was overloaded.

However if the link does not work, there are many, and more probable solutions, such as the paper having been moved, the webserver can not resolve the direct link you try to use to the article (so try going through the pages to find the link to the actual article om the webserver which might have been updated or something)

Easiest is to just do a google search and if you still see the link see if it isays Cached, if you only need it to quickly reference something. (when citing though be sure to use the date google tells you they got the information not you)

Answer 3

A few things could have happen.
1. Alot of traffic could case the page not to load.
2. The website owner took the page down.

Answer 4

I'm not sure I understand the question, could you rephrase it please?