Was this a DDOS attack?

Discussion in 'Security' started by jazzie142, Nov 5, 2007.

  1. #1
    My website has been online for about 7 days, today when I went to my website the page said that my account had been suspended. I contacted my hosting company and was told that my account was suspended for too many queries per second. I asked if they were sure it was my account since it had only been online for a week. This is their response:

    "Yes we can check the site which is requesting too many queries per second. Unfortunately it was yours and it sent the load beyond sky limits. We will have to close your account, sorry to see you go as a customer".

    They made a backup of my website for me. I just looking through the logs and I don’t see any abnormal traffic (927 visitors). They only thing I can think of is some type of DDOS attack. Where can I look to see if my website actually had beyond sky limits traffic?

    Thanks
     
    jazzie142, Nov 5, 2007 IP
  2. jazzie142

    jazzie142 Member

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    These are the stats from my stat meters:


    Feedburner: 1,062 visitors

    Sitemeter: 1,042 visitors

    http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f278/jazzie142/serverphp.png


    Stat Counter: 1,121 visitors


    Monday 5th November 2007 74
    Sunday 4th November 2007 1,121
    Saturday 3rd November 2007 859
    Friday 2nd November 2007 92
    Thursday 1st November 2007 66
    Wednesday 31st October 2007 76
    Tuesday 30th October 2007 0



    My hosting package:

    3 GB Storage
    80 GB Bandwidth

    I don't think this is enough traffic to overload a server or is it?
     
    jazzie142, Nov 5, 2007 IP
  3. Ladadadada

    Ladadadada Peon

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    I would ask for my money back if I were you.

    I would also look in the Apache logs. Bots tend to request pages but not supporting elements so tracking images and javascript can't track bots. It's possible that you did get a lot of traffic that didn't show up in your other traffic tracking methods.
     
    Ladadadada, Nov 9, 2007 IP
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    jazzie142 Member

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    Thanks Ladadadada.
     
    jazzie142, Nov 13, 2007 IP
  5. inworx

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    This can be shown up easily in webalizer stats or any other raw stats.
     
    inworx, Nov 13, 2007 IP