I recently got an email from the abuse team saying that a simple word press site was causing a lot of load on their servers and that is the reason they disabled the site .
The site was hosted on a shared hosting plan where the user does not have access to any server feature but the abuse team wanted me to remove apache threads.
Email ONE from abuse team
Hello,
We had been informed by our server admin team with the logs stating that there was a tremendous load on our server due to the presence of apache threads in the hosting package associated with the domain name c.net. Thus we have suspended the free services of the hosting package.
We request you to kindly get in touch with your server admin team or web developer team to remove the apache threads from the website. Once done, you may update us and we shall unsuspend the free services.
Should you have any queries, kindly contact us.
Regards,
BR Abuse Team
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My Reply 1
Hello
What is causing the server load?
The logs show some ddos on the site.
Regards
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Mail Two from abuse team
Hello,
We had been informed by our server admin team with the logs stating that there was a tremendous load on our server due to the presence of apache threads in the hosting package associated with the domain name charitiesinindia.net. Thus we have suspended the free services of the hosting package.
We request you to kindly get in touch with your server admin team or web developer team to remove the apache threads from the website. Once done, you may update us and we shall unsuspend the free services.
Should you have any queries, kindly contact us.
Regards,
BR Abuse Team
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My reply 2
Dear Sir
I would gladly remove apache thread from my shared hosting space. which has disabled all access to apache for people who buy space from this hosting .
Domain Name: c.net
IP Address: 1
Q Does this is a shared hosting the user has NO access to any kind of apache service? .
Kindly check with your server admin if shared hosting has access to apache threads.
The shared hosting is so basic that the user has no access to php.ini even.
So Sir there is no use of my server admin team or web developer team as they cannot do anything on a shared hosting package.
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Mail Three from abuse team
Hello,
Kindly find the answers to your questions below.
Q) Does this is a shared hosting the user has NO access to any kind of apache service?
A) Since this is a shared hosting, all the resources are shared amongst all the packages hosted on the server.
Q) Kindly check with your server admin if shared hosting has access to apache threads?
A) We cant give access to each domain for apache threads, as this can increase load on the server...and the load cannot be balanced or maintained.
However, you definitely have access to the php.ini file, and hence you can rewrite the rules in this file.
For some more information on apache threads, you may refer the below URL:- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/worker.html.
Kindly update us, once you have finished removing the apache threads, we shall than remove the suspension from the free services associated with this domain.
Should you have any queries, kindly contact us.
Regards
Abuse Team
BR
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What does user reply to an email like this???