[projectaon] Re: Fwd: [jonblake 81157683] Followup regarding your site projectaon.org
- From: Nicholas Jankowski <jankowskin@xxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 10:08:58 -0500
agree with David's suggestion. My guess is you could ask them for the usage
profile over the past few months, and try to identify whether it was a
sudden traffic increase and when that started.
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:20 AM, David Davis <feline1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> oo-er!
>
> It wasn't me :/
>
> Usually in these kind of situations, it turns out the site has been hacked
> in some way, and is being used as a relay for spambot traffic or something
> similar.
> Can you not get the hoster to check their logs and tell you where all the
> bandwith is being guzzled to?
> David
> On 7 November 2013 13:51, Jonathan Blake <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The website has been disabled. Does anyone know of a reason that the
>> bandwidth to the website would have increased dramatically in the last
>> while?
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: DreamHost Customer Support Team <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:28 AM
>> Subject: [jonblake 81157683] Followup regarding your site projectaon.org
>> To: jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Hello Jonathan,
>>
>> Unfortunately, due to the amount of traffic still trying to access your
>> site after we disabled the web directory, we were forced to disable it on
>> our end to prevent it from causing further issues on your shared server.
>>
>> In order for us to re-enable your site, please reply back with any plans
>> you have to lower the amount of usage your site is currently receiving,
>> or you may want to consider upgrading to a VPS. I'm afraid with the usage
>> being what it is currently, we're not able to keep it active in its
>> current state as it is causing severely high loads on your shared server
>> which is affecting other customers.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Chalise
>>
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