Server overloading on VPS?

[tekguru]

Today our server is being terribly overloaded but looking at the users online we only have 60 users showing as connected.

.htaccess is as follows:

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   # -FrontPage-  IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*  <Limit>order deny,allowdeny from allallow from all</Limit><Limit>order deny,allowdeny from all</Limit>AuthName [url=http://www.4winmobile.comAuthUserFile]http://www.4winmobile.comAuthUserFile[/url] /home/windows/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwdAuthGroupFile /home/windows/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grpDirectoryIndex portal.php index.php index.html  php_value auto_prepend_file /home/windows/public_html/global_prepend.phpphp_value auto_append_file /home/windows/public_html/global_append.php  RewriteEngine On#this may cause issues with subdirs and so I have not enabled it.RewriteBase /  RewriteRule [.]*-vf([0-9]*) viewforum.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&f=$1RewriteRule [.]*-vp([0-9]*) viewtopic.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&p=$1RewriteRule [.]*-vt([0-9]*) viewtopic.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&t=$1RewriteRule [.]*-vc([0-9]*) index.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&c=$1RewriteRule [.]*-ac([0-9]*) album_cat.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&cat_id=$1RewriteRule [.]*-at([0-9]*) album_thumbnail.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&pic_id=$1RewriteRule [.]*-apic([0-9]*) album_pic.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&pic_id=$1RewriteRule [.]*-apm([0-9]*) album_picm.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&pic_id=$1RewriteRule [.]*-full-asp([0-9]*) album_showpage.php?full=&pic_id=$1RewriteRule [.]*-asp([0-9]*) album_showpage.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&pic_id=$1RewriteRule [.]*-aper([0-9]*) album_personal.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&user_id=$1RewriteRule [.]*-dc([0-9]*) dload.php?%{QUERY_STRING}action=category&cat_id=$1RewriteRule [.]*-df([0-9]*) dload.php?%{QUERY_STRING}action=file&file_id=$1RewriteRule [.]*-kbc([0-9]*) kb.php?%{QUERY_STRING}mode=cat&cat=$1RewriteRule [.]*-kba([0-9]*) kb.php?%{QUERY_STRING}mode=article&k=$1RewriteRule [.]*-kbsmp kb.php?mode=stats&stats=mostpopularRewriteRule [.]*-kbstr kb.php?mode=stats&stats=topratedRewriteRule [.]*-kbsl kb.php?mode=stats&stats=latestRewriteRule [.]*-pbc([0-9]*) kb.php?%{QUERY_STRING}mode=cat&cat=$1RewriteRule [.]*-pa([0-9]*) kb.php?%{QUERY_STRING}mode=article&k=$1RewriteRule [.]*-psmp kb.php?mode=stats&stats=mostpopularRewriteRule [.]*-pstr kb.php?mode=stats&stats=topratedRewriteRule [.]*-pbsl kb.php?mode=stats&stats=latest  

Anyone any ideas as my host ServInt is recommending I move to a decicated server costing many $$$$'s ans surely IM shoudkl be able to handle that?

I have asked if there are signs of bot attack but they say not.

[dan0042]

VPS serevr like decicated server ,
dont need decicated server
What Spc : VPS

[ZacFields]

Check your "who is online" for googlebot or any other search engine spider and ban it. If this is an "all of a sudden" occurance then that's probably what it is. Sometimes it's hard to tell (and sometimes hosts don't look into it for you properly) if a search engine spider is hitting you too hard.

I have officially traced every speed problem I've had in the last 6 months to Googlebot. If you guys remember me always complaining about my site running slow...well that's always what it has been and I just didn't know it before. Ended up moving to a VPS when it was only semi-necessary when I thought it was the only option I had.

But just an idea for you, I generally get about 75,000 hits per day on my forums of about 120,000 posts and 1,500 members and I'm running on Spry VPS hosting with Cpanel at 128meg RAM and I'm getting generally under 3 second page loads. Usually around 1.5 seconds or better.

So make sure to check for those dirty googlebots.

Zac