Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: > Are there other Web servers on the same VM host that come under sustained > MACAC attacks?
s/MACAC/DDOS/ then most certainly. I don't really have a way of keeping track of what is happening on other machines. But almost certainly if those have web servers then they are getting hammered too. > Could abusive crawlers be tying up, not only the httpd, but also the > VM host and therefore the other services running in different VMs? That was the point I was making. :-) > I know abusive crawlers are the obvious culprit these days, but could that > abuse be covering up another problem, such as growing hardware flakiness? The hardware in this case seems to be working just fine. It's just overwhelmed. Bob
