{"id":1402,"date":"2005-03-06T06:47:19","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T14:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/06\/alas-may-be-having-an-unexpected-hiatus\/"},"modified":"2005-03-06T06:47:19","modified_gmt":"2005-03-06T14:47:19","slug":"alas-may-be-having-an-unexpected-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Alas&quot; may be having an unexpected hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, our server is shaking us off like fleas &#8211; either because &#8220;Alas&#8221; has attracted a Denial of Service attack or because it&#8217;s too popular and the bandwidth is too high, I&#8217;m not sure which is going on. (You can see the email we got &#8211; which is all the info I have &#8211; below the fold).<\/p>\n<p>The alternative arrangements we were making have fallen through, so we need to find a new server for &#8220;theennead.com&#8221; and also for &#8220;amptoons.com.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Until that happens, it&#8217;s possible&#8221;Alas&#8221; will be down for several days.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone would like to recommend a good not-too-expensive server, or to let me know what the heck the computerese stuff below the fold is about, feel free. :-)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From: &#8220;Lunarpages Helpdesk&#8221; <support@lunarpages.com><br \/>\nTo: <em>[censored]<\/em><br \/>\nDate: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:11:41 +0000 (GMT)<br \/>\nSubject: Account suspended and moved to Quantz [4842-ETPK-4878] [052db701] Question Created<br \/>\n==== Enter your reply ABOVE this line ====<br \/>\nDear Elkins,<\/p>\n<p>The following ticket has been created by a member of our staff for you<\/p>\n<p>Your question&#8217;s details:<\/p>\n<p>============== Title: ==============<br \/>\nAccount suspended and moved to Quantz<\/p>\n<p>============== Message: ==============<br \/>\nHello,<\/p>\n<p>we suspended and moved your account to &#8220;Quantz&#8221; server because of the<br \/>\nfollowing reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Too many php processes and mysql connections caused Europa to hang.<br \/>\nHere are the log files from Europa:<\/p>\n<p>Processes running while server had load issues:<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nfreedo15  9616  0.0  0.1 14940 5728 ?        S    Feb24   0:01<br \/>\n\/usr\/bin\/php<br \/>\ntheenn2  29054  2.3  0.1 14556 7156 ?        S    17:09   0:00<br \/>\n\/usr\/bin\/php<br \/>\ntheenn2  29062  7.8  0.2 15128 7800 ?        S    17:09   0:00<br \/>\n\/usr\/bin\/php<br \/>\ntheenn2  29134  3.0  0.1 14408 7080 ?        S    17:09   0:00<br \/>\n\/usr\/bin\/php<br \/>\ntheenn2  29191  3.5  0.1 14420 7080 ?        S    17:09   0:00<br \/>\n\/usr\/bin\/php<br \/>\nroot     29266  1.0  0.1 12796 4576 pts\/2    S    17:09   0:00<br \/>\n\/usr\/local\/bin\/php -q \/etc\/lunarscripts\/menu\/shell_runp<br \/>\ntheenn2  29289 15.5  0.1 14904 7500 ?        S    17:09   0:00<br \/>\n\/usr\/bin\/php<br \/>\ntheenn2  29301  8.0  0.1 14520 7068 ?        S    17:09   0:00<br \/>\n\/usr\/bin\/php<br \/>\ntheenn2  29325 15.0  0.1 14420 7076 ?        S    17:09   0:00<br \/>\n\/usr\/bin\/php<br \/>\ntheenn2  29466  2.2  0.1 14540 7152 ?        S    17:09   0:00<br \/>\n\/usr\/bin\/php<br \/>\ntheenn2  29534 11.0  0.2 15132 7748 ?        S    17:09   0:00<br \/>\n\/usr\/bin\/php<br \/>\ntheenn2  29537 12.3  0.2 15128 7748 ?        S    17:09   0:00<br \/>\n\/usr\/bin\/php<br \/>\ntheenn2  29542  3.3  0.1 14416 7080 ?        S    17:09   0:00<br \/>\n\/usr\/bin\/php<br \/>\ntheenn2  29644  0.0  0.1 14424 7080 ?        S    17:09   0:00<br \/>\n\/usr\/bin\/php<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>MYSQL log:<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;+<br \/>\n| 2073 | theenn2_amptoons | localhost | theenn2_MT  | Query   |<br \/>\n4    | Copying to tmp table | SELECT alas_posts.*,<br \/>\nMAX(comment_date) AS max_comment_date FROM alas_comments,<br \/>\nalas_posts WHERE alas |<br \/>\n| 2078 | theenn2_amptoons | localhost | theenn2_MT  | Query   |<br \/>\n4    | Copying to tmp table | SELECT alas_posts.*,<br \/>\nMAX(comment_date) AS max_comment_date FROM alas_comments,<br \/>\nalas_posts WHERE alas |<br \/>\n| 2079 | theenn2_amptoons | localhost | theenn2_MT  | Query   |<br \/>\n2    | Copying to tmp table | SELECT alas_posts.*,<br \/>\nMAX(comment_date) AS max_comment_date FROM alas_comments,<br \/>\nalas_posts WHERE alas |<br \/>\n| 2083 | theenn2_amptoons | localhost | theenn2_MT  | Sleep   |<br \/>\n                                   |<br \/>\n| 2084 | theenn2_amptoons | localhost | theenn2_MT  | Query   |<br \/>\n2    | Copying to tmp table | SELECT alas_posts.*,<br \/>\nMAX(comment_date) AS max_comment_date FROM alas_comments,<br \/>\nalas_posts WHERE alas |<br \/>\n| 2607 | theenn2_amptoons     | localhost | theenn2_MT<br \/>\nQuery   | 6    | Copying to tmp table | SELECT alas_posts.*,<br \/>\nMAX(comment_date) AS max_comment_date FROM alas_comments,<br \/>\nalas_posts WHERE alas || 2608 | theenn2_amptoons     | localhost | theenn2_MT<br \/>\n      |<br \/>\nQuery   | 6    | Copying to tmp table | SELECT alas_posts.*,<br \/>\nMAX(comment_date) AS max_comment_date FROM alas_comments,<br \/>\nalas_posts WHERE alas || 2610 | theenn2_amptoons     | localhost | theenn2_MT<br \/>\n      |<br \/>\nQuery   | 5    | Copying to tmp table | SELECT alas_posts.*,<br \/>\nMAX(comment_date) AS max_comment_date FROM alas_comments,<br \/>\nalas_posts WHERE alas |<br \/>\n| 2612 | theenn2_amptoons     | localhost | theenn2_MT<br \/>\nQuery   | 5    | Copying to tmp table | SELECT alas_posts.*,<br \/>\nMAX(comment_date) AS max_comment_date FROM alas_comments,<br \/>\nalas_posts WHERE alas |<br \/>\n| 2613 | theenn2_amptoons     | localhost | theenn2_MT<br \/>\nQuery   | 3    | Copying to tmp table | SELECT alas_posts.*<br \/>\nMAX(comment_date) AS max_comment_date FROM alas_comments,<br \/>\nalas_posts WHERE alas |&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Your account&#8217;s STATS before we suspended your account:<\/p>\n<p>theenn2 theennead.com<br \/>\nAverage cpu usage : 6.66%<br \/>\nAverage memory usage:1.63%<br \/>\nAverage  Mysql Usgae : 0.6<br \/>\nTop Process%CPU 72.0\/usr\/bin\/php<br \/>\nTop Process%CPU 63.0\/usr\/bin\/php<br \/>\nTop Process%CPU 50.0\/usr\/bin\/php<\/p>\n<p>Hence we moved you to Quantz first to solve the issue of the degraded service<br \/>\non Europa  and second as a courtesy in order to prevent any downtime on your<br \/>\nsite to allow you time to rectify the situation.  Currently, your site is not<br \/>\nsuitable for a shared hosting environment.<\/p>\n<p>Quantz is not a production server and is not guaranteed to run in the same<br \/>\nmanner as your old server nor will it support all functions you may have.<br \/>\nThis is a transitional server only and is not intended to be a permanent<br \/>\nplacement.  Please make a decision on how you would like to proceed within<br \/>\nseven (7) days.  After seven (7) days, your account will be suspended if no<br \/>\nother arrangements are made.<\/p>\n<p>You have the following options:<\/p>\n<p>1.You may take steps to correct the problem.  This must be done before the<br \/>\nseven (7) days are up.  You will need to let the technician know the steps you<br \/>\ntook to correct the issue and get approval before being returned to a<br \/>\nproduction server.<\/p>\n<p>2.You may look for a dedicated server or other hosting solution.  Please<br \/>\nremember that propagation takes up to seventy two (72) hours so if you decide<br \/>\non changing hosts you should allow enough time for propagation.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.  We value you as a customer and<br \/>\nwant to work with you toward a solution that is mutually beneficial.  Please<br \/>\nlet us know as quickly as possible how you would like to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>Please Let us know, If you have any issues!<br \/>\nWe are at your service and Our mission is to serve you better!<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>\nRamarajan.V,<br \/>\nJRSA, Support team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, our server is shaking us off like fleas &#8211; either because &#8220;Alas&#8221; has attracted a Denial of Service attack or because it&#8217;s too popular and the bandwidth is too high, I&#8217;m not sure which is going on. 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