Why not just whitelist the ip and be done with it?
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On May 13, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera@theingots.org
wrote:
It would help if I knew what the CPU usage actually was. Perhaps my site is just very badly configured (e.g. I didn't even have caching enabled).
Also, the problem is not *technically* that I'm hitting a CPU quota. What happens is that we have a lot of requests coming from the same IP address (which is used by a number of schools, which are our customers). So the firewall at the server decides that this IP is mounting a DOS attack, so it blocks the IP, hence blocking our customers.
I spoke with support, and they said if the CPU usage went down, it would reduce the chances of that school IP being blocked in the future. And that's how I ended up here asking about CPU usage.
Cheers, Daniel.
Steve Power wrote:
ask them to move you to a less busy machine? On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera@theingots.org mailto:daniel.carrera@theingots.org> wrote: Greg Knaddison wrote: A cheap VPS is $20/month and will likely solve the problem. I am not a very good sysadmin and I hate sys admin work. I cry at the thought of having to configure Mailman (I have no idea how) or spam filters, or Apache, PHP and MySQL, or handle backup and recovery. I speak from experience. I have been the sys admin of a non- critical Drupal site and I know I would not like to do the same for a mission critical site. I chose this host as a way to get a balance between getting my fair share of resources while having someone else do the day-to-day admin work that I have neither interest nor aptitude for. Debugging a slow site on shared hosting is an exercise in futility. Regardless of the value you place on your own time, it doesn't take much time troubleshooting before a low cost shared hosting plan becomes a false savings. I did not choose the present shared host based on savings. I chose them because they have the best reputation for excellent support and uptime that is second to none. So far they have lived up to their reputation. My support requests receive an intelligent and useful response in less than 2 or 3 minutes. My top priority is reliability. I don't have enough confidence in my admin skills to believe that I can achieve better reliability myself than I can with United Hosting. Daniel. -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
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