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suPHP flooding the server

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  • ThinIce
    This sort of issue can be caused by a high load (i.e. number of requests) to a particular website - it's common to see it if a spidering / vulnerability search tool is run against a wordpress or other non cached site on the system and the number of php requests exceeds the capability of your machine to concurrently process them. Rather oddly, there is no inbuilt protection in suphp or cPanel to restrict the number of running php processes per user or for the entire system, as far as I'm aware you'll need to add on something like Cloudlinux or deal with the issue in a more hackish / less professional manner (i.e. determine the threshold of concurrent php processes your machine can deal with and run a script to kill requests when this threshold is exceeded to bring load under control).
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