Or DoS back at em. :-D On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 16:38 -0600, LAMP wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > There's nothing you could do with PHP to fix this really, as trying to > block IP addresses from there would be expensive for the processor and > memory of the server. > > You could use the cPanel to block access to the offending IP addresses > though. > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
