Drupal Hosting : Access Logs Causing mysql Crash

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This is a drupal question asked by Schamess on 02 December 2005

I have Drupal 4.6.3 installed on a standard Apache server, hosted by Hostdime. Someone has been poking at the site – an admin page is being called every thirty seconds or so from different urls. Whoever it is has access to huge blocks of them, so ip blocking is not an option.

After several months I had apparently accumulated 500,000 or so entries in the access logs. This is now crashing mysql and bringing down the whole server. Hostdime has said I need to take the site off their server, or run it with something other than Drupal.

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