Hello I still have an issue with my hosting provider the vps provider refuse to allow access to my website ... The technical support send us that the website has a huge volume of visitors and page requests are avrage 144 page request per minute we receive only 150 to 200 visitor aday according to google analytics and our statistics too .. how can this huge number of requests happen this is the suppot answer i discovered some spam entries in webforms as i use drupal all webfor entries stay on the website but it is very old andwe removed it so what can cause all these requests that consumes server resourses
never rely on G analytics for serious work use your OWN access_log statistics for real details in addition to your hunan visitors you may have an unknown/unlimited DDoS or bad bot traffic multiple of your real human traffic such bot traffic of course never shows up in G analytics
Agreed. It's most likely bot traffic (which will usually cause a high load). Check your logs for an abnormally high amount of requests coming from a particular IP address and block that IP if necessary or ask your provider to help you block it.
what kind of site that you host inside your vps and if possible a quick solution for now is to install apf (since its a vps i guess the main node didnt have any firewall hardware attached else this wont be any issue). check your log.. you should be able to see where the problem come from.