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Originally Posted by wehateporn
And then it mysteriously went away, after Hostgator did something, but they never communicated what it was. I do see they've made a change to every htaccess file on the account
I think there was a virus in there which they don't want to tell me about
Seems like with a shared account our business in the hands of the Gods
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I suppose it might be something to do with xmlrpc, as this is one thing that will put server on its knees when someone try to break in via api login on xnlrpc.php. I see how it looks like when thousands bots trying to guess credentials it looks like mini DDOS, and most of the bots are hosted on amazon aws, it is hard to blacklist all those IPs.
Google this
https://www.google.nl/search?dcr=0&e....0.Kd-LVKt53s0
and my recommendation is to forbid direct access from public on this file xmlrpc.php via htaccess if you are not using api access, and most people don't.