Having this problem at the moment running 2.1.4

[Kustomuk]

The amount of PHP Executions generated on your account continues to exceed your hosting plan capabilities. This is an ongoing matter for more than 72 hours since the report has been initially submitted. We kindly remind you that this issue still requires your attention, for a permanent solution. The high usage continues to degrade the performance of the hosting environment and we will not be able to maintain your project on the current hosting pla

[Kindred]

I would be that you are getting g pounded by bots.

You should block most of them using .htaccess and blocking by agent as they are malicious and/or obnoxious

[Kustomuk]

Thanks Kindred it`s fixed!

Placed a file in the site to stop bot attacks called robot.txt and inside the file i placed this information below to stop the bots attacking the site.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Saved that to the website

 

[Kindred]

Many malicious bots will ignore robots.txt

Adding DENY for user-agent matching the bad-bots is the better way to go

[vbgamer45]

Also note blocking all bots will stop search engine indexing.

[a10]

Things are getting crazy. As the usual bots plague diminished by itself somehow, then for many days got hit by a zillion ip's from f*****g china. Went totally overboard so took the time to find them and go for the kill. Never seen anything like this before, Immense numbers of ip's, had to block immense ranges to keep the vermin away.

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[Kindred]

Don't block by ip. Use the user-agent to do the blocks

[Kustomuk]

Well our site went down this morning and i`ve just got it back up and running again by contacting the main server but they are saying that the script executions will only be reset at the end of the month so hey ho!

But as i said above we placed that file into the main site robot.txt file with the information i said above to try stop the problem, Now i`ve also left a case file with the server to see if there is anything else they can do to try help stop the bot attacks to our site as we don`t want anymore down time if possible.

Any help on this matter would be great thankyou guy`s!

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Personally, I wouldn't really suggest hosting a forum on a host that actually counts php executions,
that's not a real metric for anything. It's almost like saying you have 10Tb worth of network traffic,
but alas we only allow 10 image downloads per month. 

That said, if you do want to stay where you are, blocking unwanted traffic is the way to go like already said above.

[Kustomuk]

Well this is what our stat`s are like at the moment take a look.

Script Executions This Month
641272
out of
600000
Script Executions Today
990
out of
20000
Script Executions This Hour
54
out of
2000

[Kindred]

Dear gods - get a new host

[a10]

Don't block by ip. Use the user-agent to do the blocks

Yes, I know, but wanted to see the real scope of the activity, + am not expert in finding new user agents name I do not already know. Oh, afterthought: useragent must be Xi Jinping

[Steve]

But as i said above we placed that file into the main site robot.txt file with the information i said above to try stop the problem, Now i`ve also left a case file with the server to see if there is anything else they can do to try help stop the bot attacks to our site as we don`t want anymore down time if possible.

Any help on this matter would be great thankyou guy`s!

Kindred has already answered this.

Many malicious bots will ignore robots.txt

Adding DENY for user-agent matching the bad-bots is the better way to go

But his last piece of advice is the best one:

Dear gods - get a new host

[Kustomuk]

Well if i was honest I'm kinda going to look into that in the next 5 years as I've paid 5 years hosting time on that sucker and now I'm thinking of looking for a server that offers better storage.

Ps any kinda help on new host`s for our forum would be great with unlimited storage!

Thankyou guy`s for any reply`s

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Unlimited doesn't exist. Storage and transfer are usually the most expensive parts of hosting, and any host offering unlimited either is (usually) basically not telling the truth.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Disable hostname lookups in server settings.