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Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by siraxi, May 9, 2006.

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    I just discovered that all my sites are down due to
    Does anyone know why it happened?

    The server status on is "Server Load 12.84 (4 cpus)" - red button.

    I really getting sick of this Site5 webhosting. I have a quite popular forum on one of the websites with about 40 posts/day and it gave 2 mysql errors (damaged tables) due to server overload within days. Are these errors connected?

    Could anyone please give me a hint if changing servers would help? I'm paying around $5/mo here, but I'm willing to go much higher, just to have my websites running smoothly. I heard "a small orange" webhosting is good...

    Thanks!
     
    siraxi, May 9, 2006 IP
  2. Mystique

    Mystique Well-Known Member

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    means that your server is running but you do not have an index page in your root directory, otherwise you have a wrong configured .htaccess

    Related to MySql, most errors are caused due limitations imposed by hosting providers. Definitely could be a better solution move your site elsewhere because server overload is not guarantee in the long run.
     
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  3. siraxi

    siraxi Peon

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    Thank you. But how could .htaccess be misconfigured on all my sites?! (about 10)

    Anyway, what I should I do about this .htaccess thing?

    Edit: I just checked - .htaccess has no content on either site, 0 bytes.
     
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    QiSoftware Well-Known Member

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    Have you checked your e-mail from your webhost? By the way-- what kind of files are being uploaded and could this be putting undue stress on your server?

    Q...
     
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  5. siraxi

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    No email so far, not even from support - 2 hours have passed.

    The upload script used allowed supported exe files, but alleged offered protection against malicious uses. I'll remove that option, just in case; thanks.
     
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    hmm How about the bandwith allotment for your sites? had you checked it?
     
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    Thank you very much - to all respondents. Update: it turned out that the webhost choosed this way to temporarily suspend my account for an alleged bulk email report, which I certainly did not do, without any prior or posterior email notification whatsoever.
    I suspect that it was a guestbook flooded with spam entries, of which I was automatically notified by email, but lazily choosed to delete instead of adding a flood control mechanism to the guestbook, that was taken as "bulk email".
     
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    sadd an image verification or security to your forms, because flood bots of these kinds are rampant these days
     
    theblight, May 11, 2006 IP