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    Default What is happening with ChessTalk?

    Basically, I have been getting daily messages (over the last month) from Lunarpages stating the following:



    Dear Larry Bevand,

    A technician responded to your ticket with:

    Hi,

    I’ve performed another audit of your account today and seen that your account’s resource usage is still over our server’s limit.

    Stats for 13 May 2015:
    ---------------------------------
    CPU Usage - %3.90 -----[High]
    MEM Usage - %0.02
    Number of MySQL procs (average) - 0.21
    Top Process %CPU 68.00 [php-cgi]
    Top Process %CPU 34.80 spamd child
    Top Process %CPU 34.00 /usr/local/php52/bin/php-cgi /home/chess9/public_html/chess-math/calendar/index.php

    Stats for 12 May 2015:
    ---------------------------------
    CPU Usage - %3.93 -----[High]
    MEM Usage - %0.02
    Number of MySQL procs (average) - 0.18
    Top Process %CPU 80.00 /usr/local/php52/bin/php-cgi /home/chess9/public_html/echecs/cms/index.php
    Top Process %CPU 62.00 /usr/local/php52/bin/php-cgi /home/chess9/public_html/forum/showthread.php
    Top Process %CPU 42.00 [php-cgi]


    Due to the fact that we've not heard of any new update from you and your account is continually causing high loads to the server, we have no choices but to take some action on this matter to stabilize our server functionalities.

    Therefore, the following lines have been added to your .htaccess file to block the ranges of IP addresses that are well known as being used by bad bots and bots that always crawl websites too heavily.

    deny from 54.166
    deny from 184.169
    deny from 54.82
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    deny from 54.243
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    deny from 65.52
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    deny from 199.30
    deny from 157.55
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    deny from 207.46
    deny from 61.135
    deny from 119.63
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    deny from 220.181
    deny from 180.76
    deny from 148.251
    deny from 144.76
    deny from 46.4
    deny from 88.198
    deny from 216.107
    deny from 198.27
    deny from 162.210
    deny from 78.46
    deny from 178.63
    deny from 5.9
    deny from 82.49
    deny from 82.193
    deny from 199.58
    deny from 100.43
    deny from 68.180
    deny from 54.224
    deny from 54.145
    deny from 199.21
    deny from 192.99
    deny from 100.43
    deny from 62.210
    deny from 46.105
    deny from 136.243
    deny from 80.82
    deny from 208.115.113
    deny from 46.151
    deny from 66.11
    deny from 212.129
    deny from 91.194
    deny from 54.198
    deny from 54.162
    deny from 107.23
    deny from 173.242
    deny from 198.245
    deny from 212.83
    deny from 188.40
    deny from 94.23
    deny from 54.241
    deny from 58.49
    deny from 199.16
    deny from 54.196
    deny from 54.161
    deny from 23.23
    deny from 54.197
    deny from 54.158
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    deny from 174.129
    deny from 23.20
    deny from 199.59
    deny from 176.36
    deny from 195.154
    deny from 54.144
    deny from 54.145
    deny from 209.126
    deny from 37.59
    deny from 46.229
    deny from 37.187
    deny from 37.140
    deny from 163data.com.cn
    deny from 27.159
    deny from 27.157
    deny from 27.153
    deny from 27.154
    deny from 27.151
    deny from 27.150
    deny from 59.58
    deny from 59.173
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    deny from 61.131
    deny from 120.33
    deny from 120.37
    deny from 120.40
    deny from 120.42
    deny from 120.43
    deny from 121.205
    deny from 125.78
    deny from 220.161
    deny from 221.232
    deny from 222.77
    deny from 222.88
    deny from 110.89
    deny from 110.87
    deny from 110.86
    deny from 110.82
    deny from 110.84
    deny from 110.85
    deny from 110.239
    deny from 117.26
    deny from 117.30
    deny from 37.58.100
    deny from 188.165
    deny from amazonaws.com
    deny from 54.178
    deny from 54.208
    deny from 54.236
    deny from 54.77
    deny from 54.237
    deny from 54.186
    deny from 54.92
    deny from 54.91

    We will continue to monitor your account for the next few days to see how this will affect the usage of your account. You will be contacted again once we have more information.

    Thank you for your cooperation. Please feel free to contact us if you see any issue or if you have any further questions or concerns.


    Best Regards,
    David Kawinsuporn
    Junior System Administrator I
    Lunarpages Internet Solutions

    On Tuesday of this week I decided to have them do a complete verification of our account so that things go back to normal (yes there is a cost involved). This process could take up to 3 days...we will be back shortly. and I apologize for any inconvenience.

    Sincerely,

    Larry Bevand

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    Quote Originally Posted by Larry Bevand View Post
    On Tuesday of this week I decided to have them do a complete verification of our account so that things go back to normal (yes there is a cost involved). This process could take up to 3 days...we will be back shortly. and I apologize for any inconvenience.
    I sometimes think the primary purpose of the CFC forum is so ChessTalk readers can find out why ChessTalk is down. Not that ChessTalk is down very much; certainly not as much as the CFC rating pages lately.

    Given that CFC members post far more frequently on ChessTalk than they do here, is there any reason the CFC can't contribute to ChessTalk maintenance costs? We obviously get a lot of benefit from the ChessTalk site.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walter De Jong View Post
    is there any reason the CFC can't contribute to ChessTalk maintenance costs? We obviously get a lot of benefit from the ChessTalk site.
    Gee whiz Walter. One appearance on the daily show, and now you think you're a comedian?

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    Any action, Larry?

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Coleman View Post
    Any action, Larry?
    Hi John,

    On Sunday, Lunarpages told us: "we cannot complete our security audits due to the existence of certain files that are hosted on your account".

    Yesterday Christian Lacasse got rid of those files and sent a message to Lunarpages that the work had been done.

    I just got off the phone with Lunarpages this morning and they told me that we should be up and running within a few hours provided they do not encounter any other difficulties.

    Larry

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    Thanks, Larry. Useing this forum instead of Chess Talk is like using methadone instead of the real stuff.

    Not that I would know from experience, of course. Just what I've heard.

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    Larry,

    I am sure heads are exploding all across chesstalkland as they wait to complain about the CFC website.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3NoBeNwfk

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    @Larry, have you consider switching to a VPS?

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    Hi Pierre,

    No one here has a clue what VPS is . If someone has a solution I am certainly game. Basically I spoke to Lunarpages again this morning. Their response was that they were still working on it so the ball is in their court. Needles to say, this situation is unacceptable so by all means, contact me if you can solve this one for us. bevand at chess-math dot org ..

    Larry

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    Quote Originally Posted by Larry Bevand View Post
    No one here has a clue what VPS is .
    A VPS is a virtual private server. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server

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