Hosting support

I have Drupal 4.6.3 installed on a standard Apache server, hosted by Hostdime. Someone has been poking at the site - an admin page is being called every thirty seconds or so from different urls. Whoever it is has access to huge blocks of them, so ip blocking is not an option.

After several months I had apparently accumulated 500,000 or so entries in the access logs. This is now crashing mysql and bringing down the whole server. Hostdime has said I need to take the site off their server, or run it with something other than Drupal.

I really like Drupal and don't want to migrate if I can avoid it. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions...

Modules installed include Bad Behavior, Tinymce, comment closer, gsitemap, menu, nodewords, ping, spam, statistics, subscriptions, syndication.

The error message forwarded by hostdime follows. I'm not a programmer and know nada about servers so it doesn't mean much to me but I'm including in case it sheds any light for them's that know.

Thanks very much for any help you can offer!

MySQL Overload
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root@dime94 [~]# w
13:01:12 up 58 min, 1 user, load average: 12.11, 6.76, 5.62

29092 mysql 18 0 71988 70M 2516 R 9.1 3.4 0:10 1
mysqld
31475 mysql 16 0 71988 70M 2516 R 9.1 3.4 0:08 2
mysqld
31500 mysql 14 0 71988 70M 2516 R 9.1 3.4 0:02 1
mysqld

I thought I should let people know that I didn't find this infobit before I installed Drupal and brought it up on Dreamhost recently. The Dreamhost techsupport folks told me that they are running a Wiki for their own services and their installation technote for Drupal was quite helpful in helping my install process go clean. (I had already downloaded Drupal and unzipped the tarball by the time I ran into it.)

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Drupal

Hope this helps someone.

When uploading images with image.module, they are saved as user:user with file permissions of 600. Apache is running as nobody and therefore can't serve the images for the webpages. Changing permissions on the files to 644 works, but needs to be done manually after each upload which is no bueno.

Server is running suphp for this site.

I have another site on the same server that is not running suphp and files are saved as nobody:nobody as expected, but with permissions of 644.

Hi,

I have reseller hosting account and would like to lend custom hosting package to anyone interested for 2$/month. I can have drupal, mambo/joomla, wordpress etc pre-installed if needed.

Thx

Hey guys.
Installed Drupal 4.6.3 a couple of months back.
Was working a treat, but I had to move server last week to get proper DNS support.
In my haste, I neglected to check the version of PHP the new server was running.
Consequently, the site is no longer working properly. Search facilites are down and the article module is not working either.

You can see the problem here -
http://www.glosrock.co.uk
Follow links for "artist information", or follow articles links.

I thought it would be helpful to do a survey of web hosting in Canada to see which ones would best suit the many social mission organization I know who want to use Drupal.

Below is a list of features I hope to compare for each hosting company. Can you suggest any other useful points of comparison?

Standard comparison price: $50 CAD month.
Client is a not-for-profit organization with a social mission.