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Server Pigs
What do you get with shared server resources? Well, if you do not know the other people on your server, generally you get Server Pigs. Server Pigs are people or companies that decide that what they are doing is the only thing that should be on that server. They use all the bandwidth and CPU cycles and no one else can get their sites to run. They crash everyone around them and continue to spew their spam or landing sites up to the web. They are pigs and it takes away from me.
That is what is happening right now on my server. A couple of people are spamming from my IP and slowing the server to a crawl for everyone else. The worst part of this particular abuse is what may spill over to me. You see when an IP starts spamming the IP is blocked and it is likely that all the honest sites on this IP will be blocked too. That means I may not be able to send any email soon.
I talked to the Techs at Blue Host and they confirmed what I had guessed, Server Pigs. They promised that they would throttle their bandwidth slowly and restore the server to a more balanced state, but until then things will be dicey. I hate when this happens, I would just shut the offending pigs down, but there are contracts to uphold, so I guess they have to do it this way.
Ah, the Internet, the wild west of the electronic frontier. Time for a round up, anyone for fresh bacon?
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