DOS Games Discussion

wardrich

The site was down again for a solid part of the early morning today.

emmzee · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject:

Yea, I don't really know. For some reason, occasionally the "FROM_INTERNET" spikes and stays there until the server cries uncle. I'm not sure why this seems to happen, but rebooting always solves the problem. Here's the bandwidth usage chart:

Guess where the problem occurred?

I don't have time at the moment to do a real investigation at the moment. I've tried various things to stop this from happening but nothing seems to make any difference. I'm running a firewall on the box and my host also runs their own firewall. I'm also running bfd, mod_security, dos-deflate ... *shrugs*

If anyone has suggestions I'd be glad to hear 'em ... I may not be around much next week 'cuz I'll be at a conference in BC, but I'll try to check as often as possible in case the server is down.

Dogbreath · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:55 am Post subject:

Damn, I knew I shouldn't have showed 'Hyde how to use that IP bomber...

Ro@m · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:30 pm Post subject:

You got the point there,but maybe it wa tinman for locking his threads.

Anyway hasn't this used to happen before?

Larry Laffer · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject:

Question: Am I the only one around here that gets a download dialog for index.php, when the server acts funny?(that is, unless I get that fancy "Error connecting to database" error : Happy

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emmzee · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject:

The problem on the old server was basically that it was just constantly overloaded. It wasn't powerful enough to handle the load, and the server load was up around 10-15 ... ALL the time. (It should be, like, 1.) So eventually it would just plain give up. The problem here ... I dunno what the problem is, really. If it were an attack of some sort, the problem wouldn't be fixed by simply rebooting.

I'm going to look around for an inexpensive managed hosting solution (the current server is unmanaged) to hopefully avoid these kinda issues. My current host charges $100/hr to troubleshoot problems outside of the usual tech support issues, and they may not even be able to do anything in this case anyways. I know a little about running a server but it's beyond my skillz to troubleshoot a problem like this, especially since I can't access the server when the problem is occurring to see what's happening!

dosraider · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject:

Was approx the same day / time last time, I thought.
Weird.

Pancake · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 6:53 pm Post subject:

emmzee · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:00 pm Post subject:

Somewhat amusingly, when the server goes down the only thing that still responds is PING ... which means that I'm not notified that the server is down, because, yes, it still responds to being pinged. Bored

emmzee · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:07 pm Post subject:

It's ...
Mega double post time!
Mega double post time!
{sung to the tune of "Peanut butter jelly time"}
{sung to the tune of "Another bites the dust"}"

Ahem.

After the server went down for a second time today, I sent a longer, angrier ticket to ThePlanet's support, and got this reply:

dosraider · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:22 pm Post subject:

Whilst we're in musical mood : Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax

It feels kinda good, isn't it?
Being under Cisco Guard umbrella.
I'm relax now.