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Jun. 24th, 2009 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonfareWell, I guess AL is toast.
Here's an exerpt from what Jen, my host's owner, sent me. (And what a wonderful person she is, to answer me literally within minutes, at this hour of the day!) ~
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....At this point, the site really can't be on a shared host.
[here she gave me some figures on my usage]....in other words, you use 1 Gigabyte of memory on average per day for your site.
....Because the server's been running ok, and we had a special deal, I let it go - but this is not new. These images are being remotely loaded from all over the Internet, the site is attacked once every ten seconds, and your site alone needs 1 Gigabyte of memory all on its own each day - the site needs to be on a very robust VPS, or a Dedicated server. The resource usage has gotten so out of control that its taken down apache 3 times in the past 48 hours, and it was suspended - even suspending it, however, didn't stop the issues, as your images were being remotely loaded from so many places the hits on the server continued we had to terminate the account just to get the server to come back into normal operating parameters.
...in my opinion, this site cannot be housed on a shared server due to its resource usage.
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Since I don't have a dedicated server - and wouldn't know how to protect one or what to do with one if I had it - I really don't think I have a choice. I think I'm going to have to end AL now, just after its 10th anniversary.
It's breaking my heart.
Here's an exerpt from what Jen, my host's owner, sent me. (And what a wonderful person she is, to answer me literally within minutes, at this hour of the day!) ~
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....At this point, the site really can't be on a shared host.
[here she gave me some figures on my usage]....in other words, you use 1 Gigabyte of memory on average per day for your site.
....Because the server's been running ok, and we had a special deal, I let it go - but this is not new. These images are being remotely loaded from all over the Internet, the site is attacked once every ten seconds, and your site alone needs 1 Gigabyte of memory all on its own each day - the site needs to be on a very robust VPS, or a Dedicated server. The resource usage has gotten so out of control that its taken down apache 3 times in the past 48 hours, and it was suspended - even suspending it, however, didn't stop the issues, as your images were being remotely loaded from so many places the hits on the server continued we had to terminate the account just to get the server to come back into normal operating parameters.
...in my opinion, this site cannot be housed on a shared server due to its resource usage.
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Since I don't have a dedicated server - and wouldn't know how to protect one or what to do with one if I had it - I really don't think I have a choice. I think I'm going to have to end AL now, just after its 10th anniversary.
It's breaking my heart.
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Date: Jun. 25th, 2009 02:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Jun. 25th, 2009 02:36 am (UTC)If it's the transfer (and it sounds like it is) there might be a way to bring the transfer down.
She says "images being remotely loaded"...does she means OUTSIDE of your site? As in people linking to your images from other sites? If so, there's a small bit of code in a file that you can put on your site to cut most (if not all) of that out.
It's like when someone links to a picture and instead of the picture, they get a broken image, or an alternate image stating they can't link? I have my site set up that way (on everything but one folder I use). That way if someone tries to use your transfer/bandwidth, nothing is transferred. Does that make sense?
(Apologies if you already knew all this, I don't know what all you've learned since the site started.)
If that sounds like something that might help, here's a link explaining the file, code, and what it does. The file can also be used to do things like customize your 404/403 errors, passwords and the like, but I digress:
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess10.shtml
I can help you with it if you decide to do it. You might also run the idea of an ".htacess" file by your server lady to make sure that would help (hell, in some cases they can do the equvilent of a .htaccess command straight from the server).
Good Luck!
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Date: Jun. 25th, 2009 03:02 am (UTC)I must say Mirana has some good ideas too but I too don't know if you're already using those.
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Date: Jun. 25th, 2009 12:44 pm (UTC)Have you put a big thing on the main page begging for someone to help do the dedicated server thing? Maybe you could put up a temporary page to ask for that, to warn the site can't live without it.
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Date: Jun. 25th, 2009 03:16 pm (UTC)I know I'm not usually one for looking on the bright side (especially now), but to have a site with that kind of activity, you've really created something big and special. So, go you!
I just wish I had the tech knowledge to help you keep it where it is. There must be SOMETHING that could be done. I'll be honest though, I'm not even entirely clear what a dedicated server is.
*HUGS* I can't make chat tonight because I'm at the evil place, but tomorrow maybe if you need to talk!
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Date: Jun. 25th, 2009 05:39 pm (UTC)Are you okay, Kat? I know that this must have been a huge blow.
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Date: Jun. 26th, 2009 05:05 am (UTC)There has to be some way around this ... AL has too much useful info to let it go down....
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Date: Jun. 26th, 2009 06:30 am (UTC)Poking around Google, it looks like a server computer isn't much different in price than a regular desk or laptop pc, it's the software that will kill you. But I bet they already know about that stuff and can answer your questions, because they are in the business anyway. Talk to them... See if they have any ideas....
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Date: Jun. 26th, 2009 12:26 pm (UTC)