Overunity.com is coming unglued

[PaulLowrance]

Stefan, your web site is coming unglued and becoming next to useless.  Your forum is reporting database errors left and right.  Is your site under attack or what???

I've been a system admin for nearly 10 years and never seen anything this bad before.


Best wishes,
Paul Lowrance

[Dingus Mungus]

I'm also a sysop for a major corp and I would have to agree.

Someone is attacking your database...

I would suggest watching the logs to see who's been hitting the server so often. I would guess its a guest account(s) hammering it with requests from a spoofed IP. If you get the users IP its probably faked, but please make it public so we can further investigate.

I hope this is resolved soon as it is greatly reducing the ease of use.
(that and I keep losing messages)

~Dingus

[hartiberlin]

Well,
I am already working on this problem now and
the problem is, that I have to find out the IP
number, which is doing the most traffic.

As my ISP has unfortunately only a basic
Stats package, which does not show IP numbers,
this is now a major problem to find out the IP numbers,
where the most traffic is generated.

It could also be, that the 100 most recent postings
now on the frontpage cause such a huge database queries
calls...

I will reduce them now to 10 to see, if this helps...

Regards, Stefan.

[PaulLowrance]

Personally I would recommend using a web host that at least has cPanel. I've used really good and highly recommended inexpensive host http://www.bethehost.com for years. They offer tons of bandwidth for a few bucks a month, cPanel with extensive logging, server IP banding, etc.

[Dingus Mungus]

Hopefully who ever it is will go away and start using their bandwidth
and proccessing power for something else... Why bog down a forum?