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How do I fix "excessive apache connections"
Posted by the_go_453, 05-02-2008, 01:45 AM I just received an email saying And when I was on the phone with the support, they told me my site had opened up 400 apache connections + using the GET command and was causing FTP slow downs. It just happens so that a file I posted made its way to a popular forum and all the sudden, everyone was downloading the file. What is the best way to correct this problem? and GET? Isn't that a FTP Command? but people were downloading via http://example.com/files/file.zip And yea, this site is hosted on a shared hosting account. Thanks!
Posted by activelobby4u, 05-02-2008, 06:11 AM GET is not only an ftp command, but also the method by which browser client fetches a file to the browser from the apache server. If you are not expecting this kind of traffic, it could be a vulnerability causing it. Otherwise i beleive you need to move an find other hosting solutions such as VPS as your website may not be fit for shared hosting anymore.
Posted by Panopta, 05-02-2008, 10:29 AM If all the connections are caused by a single very popular file and may not last indefinitely, the easiest solution would be to move that one file to another location, say on a VPS or even Amazon's S3 service. Then setup a HTTP redirect from the current URL to the new location and traffic will get shifted automatically.
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