Web Dev's Crawler Took Down Major Online Bookstore By Buying Too Many Books
The Register, Friday, December 5th, 2025
Forgot one setting, for one subdomain, and caused an hour of severe errors
Thank you, dear reader, for tearing yourself away from Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales long enough to visit The Register, just in time for this fresh installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of unforced errors, and how you bounced back afterwards.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Jim" who in the early 1990s worked for an online bookstore.