[Wylug-discuss] Linux server assistance

[Lee Evans]

Hi all,

 

We have a client with a linux web server (apache, mysql, php) running some
wordpress sites.

 

They are a relatively high volume site.

 

We have been having some trouble with outages, which I suspect  to be due to
load (and possibly malicious at that) issues.

 

The server locks up or grinds to a halt, there are far more httpd processes
running than normal yet the usage stats suggest that there aren't many live
users.

 

My personal suspicion given the symptoms is a targeted DDoS attack using
some sort of SYN flood to open too many connections which have a dead end.

 

Is there anyone out there that would be interested in helping us get to the
bottom of this?

 

It's beyond our skill set with general server / apache installation and
maintenance.

 

Thanks

Lee

 

 

 

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