[musado1961]

Originally Posted by Oblivion Knight

Any form of shoutbox / chatbox is notoriously bad for server resources..

A few hosts that I know of have effectively banned their use.

Till yesterday I'd never had any issues with the CYB mods & dont believe they are at fault. The chatbox in particular has never caused any issues whatsoever before.

The sudden jump to over 2.5 million hits seems like some form of exploit against my forum

Thanks for the replies so far guys

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Originally Posted by Carnage-

Can you get the apache logs from the host?

Might be helpful to see what was being requested -> ips could be matched to forum users in your db; see if it was regular usage or some form of attack.

I wish!

That's the 1st thing I requested from Servage & got fobbed off with allsorts of ridiculous excuses