Website issues fixed
I just received confirmation from my hosting provider that my websites are back and everything is working correctly again.
Last week, I experienced a small spike in traffic due to the people reading my comments about the internet radio situation. I didn’t think it was a problem, but on Friday and Saturday my hosting account was temporarily suspended due to CPU use overages. The jump in CPU usage was beyond what would be caused from a few more hits. They moved my account to a new server, and the same happened. I’m responsible for the CPU usage my website uses, so for a while I thought I’d be forced to move to another host or give up hosting my own blog.
One of the customer reps I talked to said he thought my site was being exploited by someone. I hadn’t updated the software I had running my sites in a long time, and once I did the problems stopped. The more I think about it, though, the more I think that it had to be a fluke maybe even a problem with my software or the host. I just can’t imagine anyone finding a way to cause a CPU spike, let alone want to do it. Since everything works now and since I really don’t want to scan through my server logs or try to figure out what vulnerabilities my site used to have, I’m just going to drop it.
My old website frame wouldn’t work with the latest version of Wordpress, so I found a new theme that is simple and works pretty well.
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