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You may find some 'Account suspended' messages when you log in to Beagles at the moment. This is due to a small DDOS attack - hopefull we have stopped it in its tracks but the server load is excessively high. Tools and I are working on squishing it and you may find some pages may not function correctly until it has gone, we will keep you informed as much as possible and we are sorry for the inconvenience.
DDOS is basically where a random malicious thing sends lots of hits to your site simultaenously (sure someone else will explain a lot better later) where as our server load is usually 6 or 7 Gb a day it shoots up to 45 Gb a day during one of these attacks. We had similar February 3rd and quashed it within 2 days.
Thanks you for your patience.
Ame & Tools
DDOS is basically where a random malicious thing sends lots of hits to your site simultaenously (sure someone else will explain a lot better later) where as our server load is usually 6 or 7 Gb a day it shoots up to 45 Gb a day during one of these attacks. We had similar February 3rd and quashed it within 2 days.
Thanks you for your patience.
Ame & Tools
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xxxxxxxxxxx} High Load - Account Suspended From: xxxxxxxxxxxxHosting (reply@xxxxxxxxxxx.net) Sent: 15 October 2008 00:04:10 Reply-to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: Amethyst@legalbeagles.info
I'm afraid I have bad news for you. We have been forced
to take your account offline for the day due to an extremely
high load on your account. At this time today our servers have
served more than 400458 requests for your account.
You have not used to too much transfer it is a load issue meaning
that your site has used too many CPU resources on the cluster. If
more customers on the cluster caused such high load it would make
other sites on the system run slower which would not be fair to the
webmaster of those sites.
As stated in our terms of service we are allowed to take
offline accounts which harm other customers. In your case we
have determined that it would badly affect other customers
if we kept your site online. Therefore we have temporarily
suspended your account. We will lift the suspension at
approximately 01.00 GMT.
If you have any questions please submit a support ticket via
the control panel and our support staff will be happy to
answer any questions you may have.
Thank you for your understanding.
xxxxxxxxxxx} High Load - Account Suspended From: xxxxxxxxxxxxHosting (reply@xxxxxxxxxxx.net) Sent: 15 October 2008 00:04:10 Reply-to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: Amethyst@legalbeagles.infoI'm afraid I have bad news for you. We have been forced
to take your account offline for the day due to an extremely
high load on your account. At this time today our servers have
served more than 400458 requests for your account.
You have not used to too much transfer it is a load issue meaning
that your site has used too many CPU resources on the cluster. If
more customers on the cluster caused such high load it would make
other sites on the system run slower which would not be fair to the
webmaster of those sites.
As stated in our terms of service we are allowed to take
offline accounts which harm other customers. In your case we
have determined that it would badly affect other customers
if we kept your site online. Therefore we have temporarily
suspended your account. We will lift the suspension at
approximately 01.00 GMT.
If you have any questions please submit a support ticket via
the control panel and our support staff will be happy to
answer any questions you may have.
Thank you for your understanding.
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