I want to apologize to everyone that has been trying to access Setupgrid.net or use Setupgrid.net In-Game in recent weeks. There was a problem with the server which proved very elusive. With all the work I'm already doing on iGP Manager it wasn't possible to focus on this either.
But today I saw a clue in the server logs that pointed me in the right direction. It was an error with Apache rewrites causing scripts to be loaded multiple times instead of once on each page load, this would in-turn burden the servers memory and eventually it would crash. It emulated the effects of a DDoS attack, without actually being one.
So I took the time this evening to rewrite every single link on Setupgrid.net and to disable the mod_rewrite functionality in Apache. To cut a long story short, the service should be back to normal from now on.
But today I saw a clue in the server logs that pointed me in the right direction. It was an error with Apache rewrites causing scripts to be loaded multiple times instead of once on each page load, this would in-turn burden the servers memory and eventually it would crash. It emulated the effects of a DDoS attack, without actually being one.
So I took the time this evening to rewrite every single link on Setupgrid.net and to disable the mod_rewrite functionality in Apache. To cut a long story short, the service should be back to normal from now on.