More Exabyte woes
Got closed down by Exabytes again. This time it was for CPU overload abuse and the website is my main chess website - www.GilaChess.com. I have been warned and my website temporarily disabled a few times before and after reducing my Wordpress plugins, I have been pretty confident that I’m not threading on broken glass. However today I got a rude surprise seeing the following message when I visited GilaChess.com. My traffic for that website is only 200-300 visits a day. So I just couldn’t believe I got shut down for that. This time however, Exabytes screen shot of the CPU usage actually helped me pin point exactly who the culprit was. The CPU bandwith hog was my sub domain news.gilachess.com. Apparently I installed Pligg (a DIGG clone) sometime back and forgot about it. It was an old version of PLIGG and there were spam bots written to take advantage of some weaknesses in the application. As a result, repeated hits from automated bots overloaded Exabytes server. I’ve been a loyal customer of Exabytes for 5 or 6 years now and I really hope they will allow me to immediately fix things. I am prepared to delete and drop the domain news.gilachess.com to solve the problem. It’s that simple. Just sent email to Exabytes support and hoping for a favourable reply.
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