I have a Counter Strike Source spray site where my users can come and download custom sprays for a game called Counter Strike Source.
This morning the largest Counter Strike news web page did an artical on us.
When I connected to my site I was pleased to see about 120 users online. But, moments later I was greeted by this:
Directory Listing Denied
This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.
I then recieved an e-mail from my web host:
Your website, thespraysource.com, was consistantly using 100% of the
system processor from approx. 12:30pm to 1:45pm EST today. This resulted
in problems on the server, and as a result, your website had to be
stopped. A trace of the files and folders in use at the time of the problem
is below. Please let us know when you have corrected this issue, and
your website will be restarted.
php.exe pid: 4188 WEB16\IUSR_WEB16
18: File C:\*******\*******\thespraysource.com
750: Section \BaseNamedObjects\NTFSDRV_OBJ0
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
php.exe pid: 3668 WEB16\IUSR_WEB16
18: File C:\*******\********\thespraysource.com
750: Section \BaseNamedObjects\NTFSDRV_OBJ0
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
php.exe pid: 3832 WEB16\IUSR_WEB16
18: File C:\******\*******\thespraysource.com
750: Section \BaseNamedObjects\NTFSDRV_OBJ0
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
php.exe pid: 3880 WEB16\IUSR_WEB16
18: File C:\******\********\thespraysource.com
750: Section \BaseNamedObjects\NTFSDRV_OBJ0
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
php.exe pid: 3364 WEB16\IUSR_WEB16
18: File C:\******\********\thespraysource.com
750: Section \BaseNamedObjects\NTFSDRV_OBJ0

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I wasn't sure what these file ment so I contacted my host again and asked for a restart. This was there respons:


If you believe that a very large # of visitors was the cause of this
problem, then restarting your website will only result in the same
problem, requiring us to stop it again. We are unable to troubleshoot the
issue to determine the exact cause. Typically processor intensive dynamic
elements that are hit by a large number of simultaneous users will
cause problems like what happened today. If your website is very dynamic,
my only suggestion to you would be to remove some of the more dynamic
elements. Unless you can provide a resolution to this issue, we will be
unable to restart your website. Your website might be better suited for
a managed/virtual server environment, rather than a shared hosting
account.


My question is what could be causing this?
The only thing that I can think of thats dinamic on my web page is my phpaddsnew module where I have various add cycleing, the marquee where I have text scrolling and my top posters block scrolls. Should I upgrade my web host or should I try and trouble shoot my problem?

Thank you for the info...I'll try it out tonight.

I was wondering if there was a code, hack, block, module or anything like that that I could add to my site to make the members list, top posters and new threads blocks scroll.
I saw this implemented on another XOOPS site but the site was in spanish and I don't remember which site it was.
I tryed messing around with the marquee module but I never could get it to work with any of the blocks I want to scroll.

Ok...I don't know if this has bin done for XOOPS yet or not but here it goes.
I'm looking for a hack that will integrate the forums with the news module.
EXAMPLE:
I make a post in the forums and check a box that says "publish on home page" now the post that I made is in the forums and on the home page of my site.
Now when users read the news on the home page and click to add a coment it re-directs them to the original post in the forums so they can comment on it there.

If this makes no sence whatsoever here is an example of what im talking about
CSBANANA
If there isn't already a hack that can do this It would be a great hack to make.
And i'm going to feel really stupid if this is alread in XOOPS and I just missed it....

Ok...I don't know if this has bin done for XOOPS yet or not but here it goes.
I'm looking for a hack that will integrate the forums with the news module.
EXAMPLE:
I make a post in the forums and check a box that says "publish on home page" now the post that I made is in the forums and on the home page of my site.
Now when users read the news on the home page and click to add a coment it re-directs them to the original post in the forums so they can comment on it there.

If this makes no sence whatsoever here is an example of what im talking about
CSBANANA
If there isn't already a hack that can do this It would be a great hack to make.
And i'm going to feel really stupid if this is alread in XOOPS and I just missed it....

Never mind...I got it....I had to edit my personal profile...It seems I had it to show threaded..Thanks for pointing me in the right direction :)

Well it seems that this didn't work...I checked my admin/systemadmin/preferences and made sure that the default comments display mode was set to flat....the forum is still the same way....however...I noticed a button on the bottom of the page when you are viewing the forums that says "FLAT" if you click it it changes the forums the way I want them...but if you go to a new forum it changes it back to threaded....is there a way to make it so it's always flat?

Thanks for the reply...i'll try this and see if it helps :)

Ok....here is the problem I'm having.
when you read a post in my XOOPS forum it only shows one post at a time. you have to click a button to see each reply to that post.....I want it like it's set up in these forums where it shows a bunch of replies on 1 page...I looked for a setup option for this but didn't find one...am I missing something here?

Example:
If I made this post in my forums and 21 people replied to it. It would show the original post then you would have to push a button that says RE:post to view the first reply and again to view the second reply...I want all or most of the replies on the same page...
Thanks in advance

P.S. I See that there is settings when you create a new forum like number of posts per page...I have it set to 20 posts per page but it still only shows 1 per page...maybe it's the theme that I have? i'm using the 7dana-round theme...