There have been issues of MySQL downtimes.. but the main reason is that some members are trying to experiment stuff.

Some of the recent cases .
1> A member tried to send 50,000 emails ... while most of them were duplicate. I guess, to screw up the server. I had to delete his account.
2> Some one tried to put random stuff into mySQL database, and he put it into an infinite loop. That caused mySQL to HOG up since it was expected to execute unlimited queries.. The tmp size was filled and SQL was down.
3> Someone also tried to abuse JSP/ Tomcat which is THE MOST ADVANCED feature we provide, at the same time, it is also processor intensive. It was abused and the server went down completely. we had to restart the server to get things back to normal.

4> and there are many more such cases..

All I would request members is that, Please dont experement things or scripts on my server. There are a lot of members on it and any problems is going to affect all of them. Lets use the service together.. happily.

-Regards,
OpaQue.


This post has been edited by Dooga: Dec 27 2005, 07:18 AM

This is really sad. One gets everything for free and abuse.. it might be very hard for admin to go and check this defaulters as members crosses above 5000. I can't understand this kind of people... they are not afraid of the consequences of this kind of crime....

I'm guessing they're competitors of Trap17 and are trying to mess with us.
Why would a whole bunch of people just suddenly decide to "experiment" with the MySQL databases? They're most likely a team of competitors that wants us dead...

When I'm trying to work on my site which uses MySQL, and the MySQL server is down, this gets really annoying. I was working on my login script to be part of phpBB (the login was working w/o phpBB) but I didn't get the chance to start before the MySQL is down.

Rise thread, service interruption breathes life into you....

With respect to gyad it seems unlikely to me that this is some sort of targeted attack from an outside group. Anybody from trap17 who gets fed up and moves to payed hosting will probably go to computinghost.

We'll see though, hopefully the pattern of abusive activity will be clear.

long live Trap17!

Ugggghhh. Stupid people abusing Trap17. I don't think it's an attack by a competitor though. I think it's just idiots.

It's really annoying when all these MySQLs are going down. I tried to install Xoops, but it said that it couldn't use a MySQL datababse (although it's working now).

But it's still amazing that Trap17 offers so any MySQL's. I mean, so many Hosts i've seen offer 5 MySQLs, even when it's $10.00 a month. Keep it up Trap17!

In the mean time, is there anything any of the non-abusive members can do to help?

Yes. Vote for trap17 in those sites that list free web hosts. If you do that, then more people will find trap17 -> there will be more ad-clicking -> more revenue for trap17 -> more money to buy resources -> more people will come -> (restart cycle).

Agree with you OpaQue If someone here want to try destroy/hack/abuse then you have came to wrong place. It affects all of us! It is sad that some users are doing that.

well i experiment with it but not that widely amount. I only experiment cause im trying to get used to cpanel. Byut 50k mails thats a lot