"The server is too busy at the moment"

[WHBM]

Just wondering how the PPRuNe server can display this message that it is too busy, but each time it manages to serve fresh advertising messages.

[planecrazy.eu]

I think it may well be that the forum database server is to busey, but apache or whatever they run can still serve the basic / static pages, the adverts would be hosted remote or via a different db to the forum one.

Or the forum has been set to display that message when x people are on it in order to keep it moving fast and error free...

[WHBM]

OK, the ads originate from a different server but presumably the main PPRuNe server is what integrates it all into the html page that gets served out to the users.

Not a criticism, just a technical query for how it gets done.

[NotTheOrganGrinder]

Or the PPRuNe server uses the same url for the image source, and the webserver that serves the ad up sends a random piccy each time.