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Originally Posted by DumpManager
I've been using this host for 4+ years and they are very helpful. My other sites are also with them and run perfectly and this is only a problem that has been happening recently. I find them to be very honest and helpful and do trust them.
I am fairly certain it's a DDOS attack of some kind, I don't actually know for sure though. The last 2 days I asked my host if it was a DDOS attack and each time they confirmed it and after a few hours they fixed it. I recognize the way my website loads and when I see it load (or fail to) in a certain way I know it's the same thing again. To double check if it's something weird I load a very basic html file off the root and it also takes forever when it should be practically instant.
Everything I read up on about the "symptoms" of a DDOS attack line up with what's happening to me.
I still can't figure out why they would even bother targeting my website though, I don't even break 1000 hits a day on it. I guess they hate me for some reason? Maybe they are jealous of my twitter account? I can't figure out their motive.
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I take it your seeing hundreds of IPs hitting the same page and your server cant cope ( which would indicate a DDOS attack) ? If its just a few IPS hitting different pages then it could be a bott (The chinese search engine Baidu's bot for example has flattened many a site). If you have a login page then it could also be a brute force attack.
We get these all the time and infact weve been under brute force attack for the last 48 hours or so. They still havent got in though :-)
Are you on a shared server ? If so then it could be anyone on that server that has the problem and not you.
Cant really comment about cloudfare but if its a free service then i would image you are just going to end up on another shared server again
Id suggest going for a dedicated server if you can. At least then you know that nobody else is screwing up your business. We use webair.com who i know do a basic managed server (inc 10tb) for around $180 a month
hope that helps