hi guys,
this morning I got complains from website owner and tons of visitors -
nobody was able to access the website. it will just timeout.
I contacted hosting company for more info but they said the virtual
privet server, where the website is, has a lot of traffic and 512MB of
RAM is not enough and I have to make an upgrade to at least 1GB etc.
it does a make a sense.
though, at 4pm I, nor 10 other people I asked for help, was able to
access to the website.
it was a little bit fishy about BIG traffic whole day long (the website
is far from it) and, since I don't have a problem accessing WHM/cPanel
of the server, I downloaded apache access file (stupid, I supposed to do
it in the morning) and found 20-30 IP addresses, repeatedly were trying
to access one (only one) page (something like article.php). and they
were requesting the same page so frequently - nobody else was able to
access to the website. it looked to me like a little DOSS attack - where
attacker wanted just to make the website busy, not to crush the server.
I contacted hosting company again. they said there is nothing they can
do about this- even I'm paying them to manage my virtual server (I can
manage this way by my self too). of course they can if I pay extra :-(
now, my question is: is there anything I can do to stop these attacks
using php? something? anything?
thanks
L
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