article_snippet.sent: The user might see an HTTP 403 reply -- "Sorry, you're not authorized to see this page.
article_snippet.sent: Their browsers mercilessly fired requests at both sites and paralyzed Their browsers.
article_snippet.sent: At the time of writing Their number 2.6 billion requests per hour," GreatFire.org wrote during an outage in March.
article_snippet.sent: Websites are not equipped to handle that kind of volume so Websites usually 'break' and go offline.