Illegal Such as usage for spam , Phishing Ect
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- Thread starter Jordan Mclay
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Are you using Cpanel on the server? If so log into the root WHM, go to Server Status and click on CPU/Memory/MySQL Usage. You should see which account(s) is hogging the servers resources.
Ah Ok.
Have you checked to see if users are hosting proxies - these are very resource-intensive.
Nothing wrong with asking for help.
1: Root SSH. Watch top and see what is the main culprit - look out for apache, mysql, exim or suspicious looking processes taking a lot of resources.
2: I can see you use CPanel, go into the root WHM and look at the Apache Status, Email Queue, information provided here usually gives you the answer. For mass email queues check the mail headers, 90 percent of the time you will be able to tell which account is causing this.
3: There are a number of security hardening measures which you can do for a free hosting environment. That'd be a long list, let me know if you have no clue here as well.
4: Root SSH, run the updatedb command and "locate" a few common keywords which you want to have nothing to do with
1: Root SSH. Watch top and see what is the main culprit - look out for apache, mysql, exim or suspicious looking processes taking a lot of resources.
2: I can see you use CPanel, go into the root WHM and look at the Apache Status, Email Queue, information provided here usually gives you the answer. For mass email queues check the mail headers, 90 percent of the time you will be able to tell which account is causing this.
3: There are a number of security hardening measures which you can do for a free hosting environment. That'd be a long list, let me know if you have no clue here as well.
4: Root SSH, run the updatedb command and "locate" a few common keywords which you want to have nothing to do with
Many thanks for that james , I have deleted the culprits causing the problems & all is well. Also big thanks to everyone else that helped.
ezhost-anish
New Member
And why exactly do u think they can't read the TOS and please skip the word Boy next time.
Best regards
Best regards
ezhost-anish
New Member
Hes taking the micky ezhost-anish because you said skip the word boy
aventurehost
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We had massive issues originally when we launched our free hosting, and ended up building a system from scratch incorporating MaxMind fraud detection. Makes it easier to judge proxy/spam scores/blacklisted details, high risk countries, and fake signups.
So far we've declined 380+ orders in a week (fake signup details, known spammers, blacklisted IPs etc), and only allowed around 125, just goes to show how much of an issue it can be.
So far we've declined 380+ orders in a week (fake signup details, known spammers, blacklisted IPs etc), and only allowed around 125, just goes to show how much of an issue it can be.
