Does anyone here know their servers really well? HELP

[Steen]

Hi there,


I cannot contact my webhost for 2 days now (today and yesterday) and it's seriously affecting my sales, among other things. I have access to cPanel, WHM and I can get into the server via that "putty" program as well (SSH?).

The problem is PHP and or MySQL running wayyyy too slow. An example: www.buffononline.com (try going to the forum). It is like this across all my sites that use dynamic programming. I had this problem a few days ago, however my host messaged me right back and told me to check now. In about 10 seconds flat the problem that had lasted hours was gone.


Here is my server status (accessed from within cPanel):

apache (1.3.33 (Unix)) up
bind (9.3.0) up
cppop up
cpsrvd up
exim up
exim-26 up
ftpd up
imap up
mysql (4.0.22) up
syslogd up
Server Load 8.37 (1 cpu) <---- Red flashing light
Memory Used 87.39 % <----- Yellow flashing light
Swap 47.00 %
Disk ad0s1a (/) 17 %
Disk ad0s1g (/home) 52 %
Disk ad0s1f (/usr) 94 % <----- Red flashing light
Disk ad0s1e (/var) 68 %
Disk (dev) 17 %



From my above access, is there anyway to solve this issue?

Any assistance would be extremely appreciated.

 

[Steen]

"Memory Used" has increased over 90% and into a red flashing light...

 

[jojoyohan]

Someone is probably using a malicious scrpt that uses all of the servers resources.

 

[Steen]

Someone is probably using a malicious scrpt that uses all of the servers resources.

It's supposed to be a dedicated server...


However I even have my doubts on that :dead:

 

[goddess]

check to see what IP's are connected, you might have a few IP's hitting you hundreds or thousands of times

block ip's that are banging you

it should be excessive calls from a string of IP's, usually a DoS script from zombies

you can always reboot too

in ssh at root type

shutdown -r now