It has become worst since these last few days. Mails are missing, and site is not accessible many times. I’ve set up server monitoring at host-tracker.com and I receive on average 6 downtime alerts per day, with monitoring triggered every 30 minutes.
I’ve seen people writing about my plugin said “if you can’t access the site, try again later“. And my AdSense stats reveals that very little impression made meaning that many people are having problems to access this site, and 4 others I have set up in this server.
Accessing this site is slow, very slow. I have to do something about it now.
As I have SSH access to the server, I can see so many cron jobs that have been running for a few days, not finishing its job. One thing about Exabytes’ servers is that they have a lot of features and allow people to do things that many overseas hosting company does not allow you to do. That’s a good thing except that when a user do something stupid, there’s nobody to look over the problem.
Well, the Engineers are fast when you report something, and they are doing a good job in reactive work. But I don’t see any proactive work being done. Once I reported that the MySQL server is taking a lot of load and freezing and asked them to check which user is doing this (even if it is myself), so that it can be prevented in the future. All they can say is that the MySQL server is now running fine.
Even though it is not downtime, it is certainly close to one. The server load sometimes goes as high as 34 (this is not percentage, this is a 1 minute average load on a UNIX machine – number of process fighting over CPU resources).
And I don’t think they are going to do anything about it. I am not sure how many domains are hosted on this particluar server but I am guessing there are a lot. I checked PHP’s max_execution time using CLI and it is set to 30 seconds. So why does the ones running from cron did not die?
root 4945 0.0 0.0 5852 916 ? Ss Mar20 0:05 crond root 20513 0.0 0.0 6432 720 ? S Mar22 0:00 crond 32278 20514 0.0 0.2 21872 4604 ? SNs Mar22 0:01 /usr/bin/php /home/sharesmy/public_html/cron_bursa_grab.php root 18962 0.0 0.0 6432 720 ? S Mar22 0:00 crond 32278 18982 0.0 0.2 22500 4564 ? SNs Mar22 0:01 /usr/bin/php /home/sharesmy/public_html/cron_bursa_grab.php root 27282 0.0 0.0 6432 724 ? S Mar23 0:00 crond 32278 27297 0.0 0.2 22448 4804 ? SNs Mar23 0:01 /usr/bin/php /home/sharesmy/public_html/cron_bursa_grab.php root 12633 0.0 0.0 6432 720 ? S Mar25 0:00 crond 32278 12642 0.0 0.3 21292 6392 ? SNs Mar25 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/sharesmy/public_html/cron_bursa_grab.php root 18362 0.0 0.0 6432 720 ? S Mar26 0:00 crond 32278 18364 0.0 0.2 22048 4808 ? SNs Mar26 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/sharesmy/public_html/cron_bursa_grab.php root 13081 0.0 0.0 6432 720 ? S Mar27 0:00 crond 32278 13083 0.0 0.2 21552 4812 ? SNs Mar27 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/sharesmy/public_html/cron_bursa_grab.php root 24375 0.0 0.0 6432 720 ? S Mar27 0:00 crond 32278 24379 0.0 0.2 21788 4808 ? SNs Mar27 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/sharesmy/public_html/cron_bursa_grab.php root 32215 0.0 0.0 6432 924 ? S Mar28 0:00 crond 32278 32241 0.0 0.3 21212 6808 ? SNs Mar28 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/sharesmy/public_html/cron_bursa_grab.php root 6426 0.0 0.0 6432 720 ? S Mar28 0:00 crond 32278 6428 0.0 0.3 22248 7148 ? SNs Mar28 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/sharesmy/public_html/cron_bursa_grab.php root 1033 0.0 0.0 6432 720 ? S Mar29 0:00 crond 32278 1035 0.0 0.2 21032 4784 ? SNs Mar29 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/sharesmy/public_html/cron_bursa_grab.php root 25401 0.0 0.0 6432 720 ? S Mar29 0:00 crond 32130 25404 0.0 0.0 2516 760 ? SNs Mar29 0:00 /bin/sh -c curl --silent http://crm.smi-malaysia.com/cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1 32130 25406 0.0 0.0 5136 1360 ? SN Mar29 0:00 curl --silent http://crm.smi-malaysia.com/cron.php root 25942 0.0 0.0 6432 720 ? S Mar29 0:00 crond 32130 25945 0.0 0.0 4124 760 ? SNs Mar29 0:00 /bin/sh -c curl --silent http://crm.smi-malaysia.com/cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1 32130 25946 0.0 0.0 3848 1360 ? SN Mar29 0:00 curl --silent http://crm.smi-malaysia.com/cron.php root 26389 0.0 0.0 6432 720 ? S Mar29 0:00 crond 32130 26398 0.0 0.0 3264 760 ? SNs Mar29 0:00 /bin/sh -c curl --silent http://crm.smi-malaysia.com/cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1 32130 26399 0.0 0.0 5448 1368 ? SN Mar29 0:00 curl --silent http://crm.smi-malaysia.com/cron.php root 27755 0.0 0.0 6432 720 ? S Mar29 0:00 crond 32130 27760 0.0 0.0 2292 760 ? SNs Mar29 0:00 /bin/sh -c curl --silent http://crm.smi-malaysia.com/cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1 32130 27761 0.0 0.0 4888 1360 ? SN Mar29 0:00 curl --silent http://crm.smi-malaysia.com/cron.php root 30650 0.0 0.0 6432 720 ? S Mar29 0:00 crond 32278 30659 0.0 0.2 21320 5660 ? SNs Mar29 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/sharesmy/public_html/cron_bursa_grab.php root 31965 0.0 0.0 6432 720 ? S Mar29 0:00 crond 32278 31966 0.0 0.2 21800 4816 ? SNs Mar29 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/sharesmy/public_html/cron_bursa_grab.php root 1523 0.0 0.0 6432 928 ? S Mar29 0:00 crond 32130 1525 0.0 0.0 3956 868 ? SNs Mar29 0:00 /bin/sh -c curl --silent http://crm.smi-malaysia.com/cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1 32130 1532 0.0 0.0 4304 1592 ? SN Mar29 0:00 curl --silent http://crm.smi-malaysia.com/cron.php root 9065 0.0 0.0 6432 924 ? S Mar29 0:00 crond 32130 9069 0.0 0.0 2748 864 ? SNs Mar29 0:00 /bin/sh -c curl --silent http://crm.smi-malaysia.com/cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1 32130 9071 0.0 0.0 5336 1588 ? SN Mar29 0:00 curl --silent http://crm.smi-malaysia.com/cron.php root 16050 0.0 0.0 6436 1192 ? S 01:00 0:00 crond root 1206 0.0 0.0 6432 952 ? S 09:20 0:00 crond 32278 1208 0.0 0.2 22740 5828 ? SNs 09:20 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/sharesmy/public_html/cron_bursa_grab.php root 19993 0.0 0.0 6432 1160 ? S 13:35 0:00 crond root 19996 0.0 0.0 6432 1160 ? S 13:35 0:00 crond 32130 19997 0.0 0.0 3720 868 ? Ss 13:35 0:00 /bin/sh -c curl --silent http://crm.smi-malaysia.com/cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1 32130 20003 0.0 0.0 3728 1584 ? S 13:35 0:00 curl --silent http://crm.smi-malaysia.com/cron.php |
Oh well, since I have more than a year left here this server is going to serve images for my sites. I’ll set up a code to check whether the user is from Malaysia, check whether the server is up, and point images here. For the business sites anyway, not for blogs…
I had plans to buy some shared hosting located in Malaysia. Reading your post, I guess I’d better re-think my plans…hehe..
Yeah… too bad. However I have not lost hope yet. I believe Exabytes and other hosts in Malaysia can do much better. In due time…