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If you are the webmaster, your account may have exceeded for one or more of the following reasons:
Your site has used more than 20% of the cpu.
Your account has too many processes running at the same time.
Your site was consuming too many resources. This happens on occassion to very busy sites that have inefficient scripts running.






That's what I got when trying to log in just 10 minutes ago.

[Steve-o]

Shared hosting :(

[Chux]

yep, I got that too yesterday....I've never seen that one before...

[TSTRBOY2004]

had it a few times.. oh well.. I just open naother one of my 4-5 forums and come back later.. ha ha ha

[pksublime]

i just started getting this a lot today, maybe it's time we changed hosts? my friend runs a hosting company if you guys are interested

[Dynapar]

i have been getting this alot too, its really annoying,

[shorty5198]

word i got it a bunch druning the afternoon today

[Steve-o]

i just started getting this a lot today, maybe it's time we changed hosts? my friend runs a hosting company if you guys are interested

PM me details.

[Rexwagon]

yeah i got that today

[AspitFire]

happend this evening about 45 min ago

[prezawagon]

Yeah, I know it's annoying. We're discussing what we can do in the short term to hopefully prevent this from happening.

[carl]

blah, i hate when that happens

[prezawagon]

So it might be the file attachements that are causing some of the excess load on the site.

Maybe try to limit the number of attachements and keep the filesize small. Use other image hosting sites (photobucket, etc) if you want to have a lot of pictures in a thread. And resize the images before posting.

For windows, the Microsoft Image Resizer powertoy is a nice little tool.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Once you install that you can right-click on any image to resize it, 800x600 or smaller is probably best for most images.

Thank you.

[pksublime]

So it might be the file attachements that are causing some of the excess load on the site.

Maybe try to limit the number of attachements and keep the filesize small. Use other image hosting sites (photobucket, etc) if you want to have a lot of pictures in a thread. And resize the images before posting.

For windows, the Microsoft Image Resizer powertoy is a nice little tool.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Once you install that you can right-click on any image to resize it, 800x600 or smaller is probably best for most images.

Thank you.


if you want i could go through and start editing the attachments so that their file size or resolution is acceptable - i know i'm volunteering to be a scanner for the forum but that's ok by me

[prezawagon]

Thanks for the offer. I don't think we need to do that just yet though.

[Aegis]

its happening again ... :hsugh: :(

[readymix]

Psssssst. Your bots are showing.

Bumblebee tuna.

I have a short term fix for you. Ban all google and yahoo bots from accessing the site, or restrain them to the General Forum using robots.txt.

[Vorgto]

hehe that was sweet i got very depressed very quick.

[Aegis]

restrict "guests" to uhm ... mods/maint, member FS, events, and general

the rest, is for registered users

traffic problems would slow down a lot and you'd still get that searchability with google and stuff that you want.

[readymix]

I know its fun to think that there are hundreds of unique users viewing your site at a time.

The image I've posted below, makes Chinese spammers cum in their pants.

Why you ask? Because it means you allow Googlebot to view user profiles...and that means, Chinese spammers can create a bunch of stupid accounts here with their 'websites' in their profiles, and you will let them have all the free advertising they want! Even if you never activate their account, they will still sign up repeatedly and view the site repeatedly....causing tons of unnecessary traffic.

[WRX1]

Of course, at this time we only have 2 bots online, so that probably isn't going to help much. It is probably just something that happened because of the shared hosting.

At this point in time, I am not to concerned about it. This is the first time it has happened in over a year, and we just re-newed the hosting, so something might have happened there. If it continues to happen, I will look into it more.

Russ

[readymix]

There is a guest, viewing a thread from march of 2006 there. Trust me, that isn't an interested guest, that is a bot. If you restrict non-registered traffic to the General forum, and restrict bots to the general forum you will get rid of alot of unwanted traffic.

[stoooo]

There is a guest, viewing a thread from march of 2006 there. Trust me, that isn't an interested guest, that is a bot. If you restrict non-registered traffic to the General forum, and restrict bots to the general forum you will get rid of alot of unwanted traffic.
Interesting info there, since I'm quite sure you guys aren't doing anything yourselves to cause this at what must be 2.30am CST... (EDIT: been happening now for about an hour, with a couple of small breaks)

[WRX1]

The main culprit to the whole thing is the member car garage. With the newest version of vbulletin it is no longer needed. Once I get a chance it is getting ripped out. The cpu cycles needed to resize all the images in the garage kills out cpu time that we are given. I just need the time to make all the template changes to remove it.

Russ

[stoooo]

Is that a batched process that runs during "off hours" ? I had trouble for about 2hrs earlier today while you lot were probably tucked up in your beds.

[WRX1]

Nope, it is when people are actually in the garage looking at the pictures. People are uploading huge pictures and then they have to get resized for the thumbnails. It takes a little less than 5 minutes of surfing the gallery and then you will get the cpu error. Then it is a matter of waiting out the next time window without other people also hitting anything for it to clear up. Just one of the downsides of shared hosting.

Russ