[Phpwm] Problems with live Silverstripe website (httpd spawing proceses, high CPU)

[David Goodwin]

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 12:45 +0100, Pete Graham wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had my systems admin friend help me out on this one. He modified the
> Apache configuration: tuned the prefork mpm. Re-activated keepalive,
> with stricter settings. Also he noticed some IP in India was
> requesting 1000 pages a minute sometimes so blacklisted the IP,
> amongst other things.


We've had a similar issue with a customer's website - in people trying
to mine information out of it... normally very easy to spot as there are
so many connections from one IP address in a 24 hour window.

David.