[kILLjOy101]

recently our website has been getting shut down by our web host, saying we were using up to 40% of their resources....
LmfaO there is no way in hell we are.. After a F'n week back & forth with support tickets & talking to a lot of worthless support techs, we think we've figured out whats going on...
We believe someone's hacking our site using a website stress tool.. But we dont know how to combat it, there's got to be a way to block this???

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by kILLjOy101

we think we've figured out whats going on...
We believe someone's hacking our site using a website stress tool.. But we dont know how to combat it, there's got to be a way to block this??? [/b]

Possibly a denial-of-service (DoS) attack of some kind? I know Apache comes with a "stress" tool you can use to simluate loads to see how your Apache web server behaves under load.

I don't know of any way to prevent it or block it. Perhaps the web logs of the ISP will tell them from which IP the "bogus" traffic is coming from and simply block that IP, provided it's "safe" to do so (meaning it's not an AOL proxy IP or anything like that).

Peace...