Bug Site is inaccessible

[DxtGaming]

While we past month we had to disable this mod because when cron action ( I think that it is the cause) were starting around 12:10 the site was inaccessible for everyone

How could we fix it? We tried to disable "Activity Feed" but without success

 

[Ozzy47]

Did we discuss this somewhere before?

 

[DxtGaming]

Did we discuss this somewhere before?

Yes in chat box really quick

I just turned it on again like 5 minutes ago and you can see that the site is being inacessible


Request Timeout

This request takes too long to process, it is timed out by the server. If it should not be timed out, please contact administrator of this web site to increase 'Connection Timeout'.

 

[Fillip H.]

Disable the Award Daily Points cron job and see if that helps.

 

[DxtGaming]

Disable the Award Daily Points cron job and see if that helps.

Okay thank you I will do it and come back in a few days if it fixed it (Not sure when I could verify it exactly because at this time I am rarely on the site)

 

[DxtGaming]

Okay the site is back
Can you remember me where I can disable the cron action?
I saw it somewhere but I can't remember

 

[Ozzy47]

Scheduled Tasks/Scheduled Task Manager

 

[DxtGaming]

Okay it is disabled I will soon be back with the feed back

I think it require too many ressource for all members
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[Fillip H.]

Our site is one amongst four on this server, and one of them has 1/5 the amount of members you do; nobody has ever reported any form of slow-down.

What I'm saying is, your server may be under-powered for the amount of members you have.

 

[DxtGaming]

Our site is one amongst four on this server, and one of them has 1/5 the amount of members you do; nobody has ever reported any form of slow-down.

What I'm saying is, your server may be under-powered for the amount of members you have.

I will have to check it with other admins because all I know is that it is hosted here DDOS Protected Web Hosting, Anti DDOS Attack - RivalHost

 

[DxtGaming]

I have just talked with the owner and the server is okay but we are constantly getting hit by attack but I don't think that you can help us with it which it cause laag when cron start

 

[Ozzy47]

Saying the server is ok does not mean to much, what are the specs of the hosting plan?

 

[DxtGaming]

DDOS Protected Dedicated Servers - RivalHost - Anti DDOS Experts!

DDOS Server 2

 

[Ozzy47]

Those plans look overpriced to me, and I think some of your issue may be related to ram, you only have 4gb, and maybe cpu cores, you only have 2

Here is what my server is:

CPU Xeon X3450
8x 2.67 Ghz cores
Memory 12GB DDR3 RAM
HDD1 1TB SATA-II
HDD2 1TB SATA-II
Operating System CentOS 5.x - 64bit
Control Panel CPanel/WHM w/Fantastico
IP Addresses 8 IP Addresses
Bandwidth 3250 Gigs Transfer

$259.00 a month

As you can see, it is $126.00 cheaper, and has 6 more cpu cores, 8gb more ram, and the hdd are 1tb each versus 500gb

 

[Fillip H.]

You can also take a look at some of these plans: Intel Xeon Westmere | Hivelocity Hosting - Dedicated Servers - Linux Dedicated Server - Windows Dedicated Server - Dedicated Server Hosting

We've found, from experience, they're quite awesome and will work with you to tailor a server to your specs if your needs don't fit one of their pre-made plans

 

[DxtGaming]

Do they offer protection against attacks?

 

[Ozzy47]

Any server that is running ConfigServer Security & Firewall will protect against attacks

 

[DxtGaming]

We are currently paying for DDOS protection but they keep saying attack are bigger than what we pay for

 

[Cosmic]

We are currently paying for DDOS protection but they keep saying attack are bigger than what we pay for

Companies that promise DDOS protection are gimmicks - there isn't something that can be done to "protect" from DDOS - it's a traffic overload. The only way to "prevent" it is to have a server capable of handling that amount of traffic. Companies that promise protection are basically just trying to con people out of their money - as you have found out =P

 

[Ozzy47]

This seems to have been resolved, the site upgraded it's processors and ram, and now does not look to slow down when cron start.