Need Very Serious help Experts please help

[zoccy]

I own a forum which got 10000 posts / topics and 3000 members

i placed tracking scripts in footer which gives me idea of how many vistors are on forum per hour and at any given time

according to which i have 10-14 members online per hour

my server load show always less than 1 near to 0.30 to 0.76

now yesterday i got an email stating that he will hack my forum and do some damage , for dont know why .

and suddenly after that email my server load was showing 1.80

and

PHP Memory Limit 128.00 MB
which was much lower

now i dont know how to know if someone is hacking or not ?
i dont know how to protect this ?
i dont know how to make this server load lower again ?
i dont know how to get imdediate email or notification if their is any hacking or sql database hacking attemps ?

can anyone help me with this please ?

i am on shared hosting server.

please reply

[Lynne]

Have you mentioned this to your host? Forwarded the email with the headers so perhaps they can block the guys IP from the server?

Since you are on shared hosting, there is no way to tell if the server load went up because of your site or someone elses. Your host can see this though.

[zoccy]

Since you are on shared hosting, there is no way to tell if the server load went up because of your site or someone elses. Your host can see this though.

as wrote before , this was never above 0.78 and suddenly after that main server load went 1.80

next wen i checked visitors only 6 visitors and when i cheched no search was going on or any resource taking process.

Have you mentioned this to your host? Forwarded the email with the headers so perhaps they can block the guys IP from the server?

when i checked email info , the ip was from some proxy so definetl nothing can be identified


now its showing [Server Loads: 1.36 1.36 : 1.38] when my board is offline since last 3 hours

[Lynne]

What makes you think that they have not added a new site to your server which would account for the larger server load? Again, talk to your host about the increase in server load, tell them you had someone say they wanted to hack your site, and tell them you are concerned about this increase in server load and wonder if it has to do with this hacker. They can check this out. You can't.

[zoccy]

What makes you think that they have not added a new site to your server which would account for the larger server load? Again, talk to your host about the increase in server load, tell them you had someone say they wanted to hack your site, and tell them you are concerned about this increase in server load and wonder if it has to do with this hacker. They can check this out. You can't.

ok i will do as you said , but just last question to you.

is it so that this figure [Server Loads: 1.36 1.36 : 1.38] may also bcz of other websites or domains hosted on same server ?

i mean is it possible that as i am on shared hosting may be they are getting more trafice or proccess and so this server load is high , and its not bcz of my forum ?

and most important is thier any way i can get notification of all script or hacking atemps made on my forum or database ?

[SEOvB]

If you are on shared hosting, then the Server loads are for the ENTIRE SERVER (all the websites) not just yours.

[Lynne]

As FRDS stated, those are server loads for the entire server which is why I said you should ask your host about this cuz they may have just added another site to your server which has made the server loads increase.

As for getting notifications of scripts and such, again you should ask your host about this. I have no idea what they can or cannot do for you.