• Hey,

    A week ago ( even before I upgraded to 3.0 i noticed that my bandwidth usage increased like 1000 % while the visitor count remained relatively same. I got a message from my hosting provider that I was using 50 GB of bandwidth a DAY for my tiny blog ?? . Later they told me that it was because ” wordpress was infinitely requesting itself”. It got to a point where it began to strain the resources of the shared server.I upgraded to 3.0 hoping it will all clear out , but it did not.

    Any ideas on what I can do to get it to stop .

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  • Request more specific information (server log) for how "wordpress was infinitely requesting itself"

    Also, have you recently installed any new plugins?

    Thread Starter adityakumar969

    (@adityakumar969)

    Nope .. no new plugins.. where can i find the specific logs that need to be analysed ?

    Since it’s a shared server you’ll probably need to ask your hosting provider for the pertinent logs.

    Need to check the activity log. Open a ticket with your hosting company immediatly as mentioned. Have seen where this is caused by SQL injection.

    Thread Starter adityakumar969

    (@adityakumar969)

    Support Staff Response
    Dear Sir/Madam,

    Thank you for contacting Hosting Support.

    It appears the over-utilization is being caused primarily by your account accesseing itself repeatedly. Here is a brief look at your log files during the time of over-utilization.

    72.167.232.6 – – [21/Jun/2010:21:17:45 -0700] “GET adityakumar.me/ HTTP/1.0” 200 44653 “-” “WordPress/2.9.2; https://adityakumar.me”
    72.167.232.6 – – [21/Jun/2010:21:17:45 -0700] “GET adityakumar.me/ HTTP/1.0” 200 44655 “-” “WordPress/2.9.2; https://adityakumar.me”
    72.167.232.6 – – [21/Jun/2010:21:17:45 -0700] “GET adityakumar.me/ HTTP/1.0” 200 44655 “-” “WordPress/2.9.2; https://adityakumar.me”
    72.167.232.6 – – [21/Jun/2010:21:17:46 -0700] “GET adityakumar.me/ HTTP/1.0” 200 44655 “-” “WordPress/2.9.2; https://adityakumar.me”
    72.167.232.6 – – [21/Jun/2010:21:17:46 -0700] “GET adityakumar.me/ HTTP/1.0” 200 44655 “-” “WordPress/2.9.2; https://adityakumar.me”
    72.167.232.6 – – [21/Jun/2010:21:17:46 -0700] “GET adityakumar.me/ HTTP/1.0” 200 44655 “-” “WordPress/2.9.2; https://adityakumar.me”
    72.167.232.6 – – [21/Jun/2010:21:17:46 -0700] “GET adityakumar.me/ HTTP/1.0” 200 44655 “-” “WordPress/2.9.2; https://adityakumar.me”
    72.167.232.6 – – [21/Jun/2010:21:17:46 -0700] “GET adityakumar.me/ HTTP/1.0” 200 44655 “-” “WordPress/2.9.2; https://adityakumar.me”
    72.167.232.6 – – [21/Jun/2010:21:17:46 -0700] “GET adityakumar.me/ HTTP/1.0” 200 44633 “-” “WordPress/2.9.2; https://adityakumar.me”
    72.167.232.6 – – [21/Jun/2010:21:17:46 -0700] “GET adityakumar.me/ HTTP/1.0” 200 44649 “-” “WordPress/2.9.2; https://adityakumar.me”
    72.167.232.6 – – [21/Jun/2010:21:17:46 -0700] “GET adityakumar.me/ HTTP/1.0” 200 44296 “-” “WordPress/2.9.2; https://adityakumar.me”
    72.167.232.6 – – [21/Jun/2010:21:17:47 -0700] “GET adityakumar.me/ HTTP/1.0” 200 44655 “-” “WordPress/2.9.2; https://adityakumar.me”
    72.167.232.6 – – [21/Jun/2010:21:17:47 -0700] “GET adityakumar.me/ HTTP/1.0” 200 44654 “-” “WordPress/2.9.2; https://adityakumar.me”
    72.167.232.6 – – [21/Jun/2010:21:17:47 -0700] “GET adityakumar.me/ HTTP/1.0” 200 44649 “-” “WordPress/2.9.2; https://adityakumar.me”

    Thread Starter adityakumar969

    (@adityakumar969)

    any ideas ??

    Same here. Any help would be appreciated.

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