Urgent help needed!

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by digital2006, May 3, 2007.

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    My host is going to shut my sites down in 24 hrs if I dont resolve a CPU issue. I went from using an average of 0.90 CPU to over 23.50 CPU?!? And my sites havent gotten any new traffic? I must be under attack some how.
    What can I do to resolve the issue? If I dont fix this they will shut my sites down.

    Help needed URGENTLY
     
    digital2006, May 3, 2007 IP
  2. cyanide

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    If your host had some brains... and some competency, they would tell you why you're eating up so much cpu.
     
    cyanide, May 3, 2007 IP
  3. chilli_source

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    Agreed, any decent host would be a little more helpful and possibly point out the specific file/script which is draining the resources.

    It seems you will have to try and eliminate the possibilities as to whats causing the load issue, although you have nothing to lose by asking the host for further info.

    Do you have any webstats which you can check to see if its a sudden surge in traffic/hits? If it's not that then its probably a poorly coded script.. have you made recent changes or uploaded anything new into the site?
     
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    Actually, one thing you can check is for hotlinkers.
    That tends to use up alot of cpu
     
    cyanide, May 3, 2007 IP