A quick thank-you to the guys at Spoonydunappa for helping me get CoolSmartPhone.com back online today. We were hit by a double-blow this weekend. Firstly we had several thousand IP’s trying to grab a rather large file from our downloads area directly. This spiked out bandwidth dramatically and caused huge amounts of traffic. Secondly, our CPU was being hammered and was bouncing around 99.9% utilization purely because some clever person has found a way to “call” a script in a certain way, which caused a loop within MySQL and hundreds of thousands of queries every few minutes.
I’d personally like to thank Paul @ Spoonydunappa for sorting out the coding issue for me. Many thanks mate!
Apologies for the slow speeds, lack of news stories and downtime this weekend and today.
CoolSmartPhone Server Update
January 16, 2006