Correction Appended

University President Lawrence H. Summers was not the only one feeling a bit of pressure yesterday. The Harvard Computer Services (HCS) website server crashed last night, preventing students from logging on to websites hosted by HCS.

“As far as I can tell, the server has gone nuts,” said Seth Flaxman ’08, the webmaster for the Harvard Democrats. “It appears it’s either out or extremely slow.”

The Harvard Democrats are just one of the many student groups whose sites are hosted by HCS. Other groups include Harvard Hillel, Harvard Model Congress, and Harvard Black Men’s Forum.

“I’ve gone to other club’s sites, and they all seem to be having the same problem,” Flaxman said.

As of 1 a.m. this morning, however, the issue appeared to be resolved, with all websites accessible again.

The HCS website crash comes on the heels of widespread e-mail problems last week, although yesterday’s problems do not appear to be related to those that occured last week.

Also unclear is whether the rumours of Summers’ resignation and the web traffic it generated is responsible for the crash.

“The highest level of traffic should be on the e-mail lists,” Flaxman said. “I don’t know why that should affect the web server.”

HCS’s e-mail system was apparently unaffected by the high volume of e-mail last night. This included group open lists that are hosted on the HCS server.

Correction

The headline and body of the Feb. 21 news article, "Harvard Computer Services faces more digital upsets," incorrectly stated that Harvard Computer Services experienced technical problems with its website servers. In fact, it was the Harvard Computer Society, which maintains the websites of many student groups on campus, that faced the problems. The Crimson regrets the error.