Before revision: In 1999 eBay suffered a database crisis when a single Oracle database running on the fastest Sun machine available (these tracking Moore's Law in this period) was not enough to cope with eBay's growth.
After revision: In 1999 eBay suffered a database crack up when a single Oracle database running on the fastest machine available (these tracking Moore's Law in this period) was not enough to cope with eBay's growth.