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Hello everyone! 

I received an email stating my site was suspended because I used up too much bandwith on my site and that I need to switch from shared hosting to VPS.

I am so perplexed because I get around 300 visits a day, which definitely should not cause any server problems.  However, when I look at my AWstats, it shoes that I am getting around 10000 hits per day.  I talked at length with tech support and they cannot pinpoint exactly what is going on.

I do know that something has been trying to hack my site or whatever because my webmaster tools shows that I have thousands and thousands of errors because of an extra node being attached to my website.  (I get crawl errors on http://everydaytipsandthoughts…../nzx….  I have no idea where the gz/nzx is coming from.)

I have no idea if the two things are related or not.  Has anyone else come across a strange issue like this?

Thanks everyone!

Kris

It sounds like you are getting some sort of DDOS attack but at a smaller scale. Who is your host?

The College Investor said:

No, but you could try using CloudFlare.  It is free, and it blocks all of those spambots.  Since joining, my bandwidth usage has dropped substantially, my site performance has improved, I get next to no spam comments, and best of all, its free!

 

Check it out, it takes about 5 minutes to setup. 

Did you have issues with changing your DNS names?  I worry about making such a change (and worry about how to make that kind of change!)