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[realexpert4u]

Hi to all Hardcore Programmers.

I am basically a PHP Programmer and Now I need urgent suggestions on what to do about this malicious traffic to my website making the server to crash.

The site which is live from more than an year ago on a server suddenly suspended by the hosting providers.

Taking into mind that the space issue on server when customers visit the site, We have changed the server to godaddy and the time I started uploading my files, got a mail from godaddy saying that malicious traffic is making the resources on the shared server down, so suspending your account.

I am not able to know what exactly the reason for this and this is happening from 4 days which is a huge loss for the company. You all webmasters please give me your valuable suggestions on this. Either because of traffic or either some one has hacked my code and has kept some malicious code into my files..

Note: This is a Oscommerse site which is done using php and the oscommerce online merchant tool. And this site is top ranking in google in the 1st page.

Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Please Reply Back if any possible suggestions that will improve the gravity of the situation
Many Thanks Regards

[WingedPanther]

Moved to the correct forum.

Did they say it is EXTERNAL traffic hitting your site, or INTERNAL traffic coming from your site? Based on what you described, it sounds like someone doesn't like you and is performing a DDOS on your site, but it's really not clear.

[realexpert4u]

Hi Thanks for your response as i am getting Traffic from Certain IP which are triggering more clouds of IP and landing to my index page making the server host site Unstable, do you know any how to avoid these types of attack or may be any software that i can place in my site index page which will counter attack these Malicious (DDos) attack.
Thanks Regards

[John]

There is nothing you can do about a DoS attack. That is something your host needs to handle. You can block the IP in your .htaccess file, this will lower the bandwidth usage, but not prevent anything.

[Chessur]

What I usually do is check the logs for all the IP addresses that has been attacking my website. Then I have a chat with my friend who works at a ISP company and helps me find out who the IP belongs to, and get their names and addresses and whatnot. Then I personally drive all the way to their house with a couple of friends, break in and destroys their PCs and etc, scarring them for life. This method works 100%, I recommend it to anyone who has contacts within an ISP company.

[jthom263]

@Chessur xD Good Method.