Comments on: Site5 shut me down!

By: GBMINI

GBMINI — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:45:53 +0000

Likely, Ken – spambots looking to flood your weblog with comment spam. They don’t seem smart enough to realize (a) they’re not getting through and (b) I have “nofollow” active so the links don’t work for Google anyway!

Go to your “awstats” and look at where the page hits are coming from – half of all Junes hits came from a single IP for me (so I blocked it)!

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:41:15 +0000

Yeah, this wasn’t the first time for me either. Usually they shut me down (i.e., IP block my site). I don’t do anything since I can’t figure out what the problem is (outside of upgrading WP if there’s another revision) and after they lift the block everything returns to normal for a few more months. This is the first time that I’ve been shut down back-to-back-to-back. I temporarily disabled my WP blogs and I haven’t gone down for a 4th day in row (yet). My unproven suspicion is that some bot is running around hitting my blogs too quickly.

By: GBMINI

GBMINI — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:21:48 +0000

More than a year – and they’ve majorly collapsed at least three times …

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:38:53 +0000

Have you been w/ Site5 for a while? Funny thing is that the same thing happened to me as well with Site5 this week–three days in a row!! I suspect something is up with WordPress/MySQL, but I’m not sure. Good luck.

By: =:Â¬)

=:Â¬) — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:15:48 +0000

thought of considering my host, never been down, BlueHost? The few times I needed help, while setting up Twisty, they were very responsive.

http://www.bluehost.com/

By: GBMINI

GBMINI — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:12:21 +0000

Down again this morning – I think because they shut it down again!
Stats say daily bandwidth in June is 200MB, from 10,000 hits to 5000 pages – 1500 visits.

No idea if that’s a lot or a little.

By: GadgetGav

GadgetGav — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:57:29 +0000

I thought the whole point of paid hosting was to avoid things like that…
When I got the ‘server timed out’ error, I just assumed that Site% was down again, so it’s not good for them either.

By: Josh Wardell

Josh Wardell — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:07:58 +0000

50 connections is pretty unreasonable. I used to run that limit when running a server off of my own computer in college. A dedicated server should handle several hundred. And when that limit is reached, you should be given a simple “Too Many Connections” error page, not no response. Furthermore, on a shared server I’m not sure they can even tell which connections are specific for your site. I would request they raise that limit or threaten to leave. Unless it is something they added to the newer plans, I’ve never seen a connection limit mentioned in any of the hosting features/agreement.