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I think I know exactly what's happening to the xo server (TSINAH)
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Date: April 25th, 2024 12:16 PM Author: Spectacular kitchen Very, very high chance that it's been compromised by chinks to mine bitcoin. That would explain the weird behavior of connections seeming like they're timing out. The reality is the web server is just fine, it's just that it's fighting for CPU cycles against some crypto miner, which it will never win. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47608806) |
Date: April 25th, 2024 12:27 PM Author: light fortuitous meteor useless brakes a cpu server isn't worth it to mine crypto
probably a memory issue with the server or an issue with the db being slow as shit b/c Rach never indexed anything. look how slow search is, which is only limited to thread titles. searching only thread titles should be instantaneous. |
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Date: April 25th, 2024 12:28 PM Author: Spectacular kitchen uhhh isn't worth it? if you have a botnet of tens of thousands of compromised machines (completely free!) you can make a lot of money. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47608820) |
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Date: April 25th, 2024 6:41 PM Author: light fortuitous meteor useless brakes running a miner 24/7 on a server would skyrocket costs and Rach would notice...otherwise this bort costs a couple of bucks per month (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47609983) |
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Date: April 25th, 2024 10:51 PM Author: Spectacular kitchen He's renting a VPS and wtf are you talking about? running a miner 24/7 wouldn't skyrocket costs whatsoever. You know how miners work, right? It'll probably be around 1-2MB/hr, which is far less than xo uses. Some of the threads here are literally like 10MB. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610407) |
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Date: April 26th, 2024 3:13 AM Author: Buck-toothed Orchestra Pit (it is 2015) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610571) |
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Date: April 25th, 2024 12:32 PM Author: Spectacular kitchen Databases are smart enough to index automatically on primary keys and that kind of thing. There just isn't enough data on xo to completely bog down a dedicated web server, which is probably running at least 4 cores/vcpus and at least 8gb ram. Could the db have ballooned to the point where it no longer fits in ram & the OS resorts to swapping? Sure, but the much more realistic interpretation is that the system is compromised. Cpanel is essentially a rootkit (and a virus) and should never, ever be used.
Also, swapping doesn't explain why the site intermittently works fine for a few minutes at a time. Much more likely conclusion is that some process that's hogging all the cpu is being killed by the OS, but because the process is malicious, it restarts itself automatically. Hell, if it's actually a chink hacker, it's probably just a cronjob that runs every minute. |
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Date: April 26th, 2024 4:10 AM Author: chocolate queen of the night tanning salon Tell us more about how the database is automatically indexing on a primary key of 5,521,376 for this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610583) |
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Date: April 26th, 2024 2:06 PM Author: Spectacular kitchen because the db mysql and it autoindexes primary keys (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47611462) |
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Date: April 25th, 2024 12:27 PM Author: Spectacular kitchen Looks like rach is using cpanel, and probably an outdated version. Just take a look at these CVEs: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1766/Cpanel.html?page=1&order=3&trc=424&sha=242cb99ceada8a39ecba543bf138dd933b646268 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47608816) |
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Date: April 25th, 2024 3:09 PM Author: Spectacular kitchen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47609383) |
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Date: April 25th, 2024 3:40 PM Author: Hideous heaven boistinker How can we get him to fix this. I'm sure we're all willing to pay whatever it might cost (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47609442) |
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Date: April 25th, 2024 3:43 PM Author: Spectacular kitchen if the server is rooted, there's next to nothing that can be done besides blocking all IPs except your own via the host's interface & then going to town trying to undo the damage done (plus fix the vulnerabilities) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47609454) |
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Date: April 25th, 2024 9:33 PM Author: Umber zombie-like keepsake machete Huh, I thought it was confirmed that Rach is logging everyone's IP addresses and email accounts to comply with recent amendments to the PATRIOT Act. I am pretty sure EPAH represented him in some secret criminal subpoena thing regarding that.
That disclosure seemed to coincide with the site becoming unusable. |
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Date: April 25th, 2024 9:38 PM Author: seedy messiness national 180 if true
fuck kikes btw gas every single one |
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Date: April 25th, 2024 10:58 PM Author: Spectacular kitchen it'd make sense that the spooks are watching this place (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610413) |
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Date: April 27th, 2024 6:45 PM Author: copper roommate public bath No it doesn't. That doesn't mean it's unlikely, because they really are stupid enough to do something like that, but it's really fuckin stupid because what are you going to do with any information you gather? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47614132) |
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Date: April 26th, 2024 3:17 PM Author: adulterous lettuce (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47611621) |
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Date: April 25th, 2024 11:18 PM Author: self-centered community account pretty sure this theory is more plausible
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5460539&mc=9&forum_id=2 |
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Date: April 26th, 2024 12:27 AM Author: Diverse Mewling Dilemma The periods when the board is fine seem too long and unpredictable for bitcoin mining. If they had the server under control it's hard to see why they would take their foot off the gas for hours at a time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610501) |
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Date: April 26th, 2024 1:30 AM Author: pale galvanic meetinghouse multi-billionaire It's obviously caused by twitter links (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610534) |
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Date: April 26th, 2024 3:55 AM Author: flesh bat shit crazy den lol ur dumb as fuck its very obviously a simple python ddos script that some gook has running on a cron job (idiot closes his laptop or it goes to sleep which is why it stops intermittently)
when you see xo reset thats rach resetting the server
it would be TRIVIAL for rach to ip block this guy and it would only take like a month for him to be blocked enough that alts/vpns are no longer an issue
rach could also add cloudflare which would stop it instantly and im 100% sure poasters would help w the costs myself included |
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Date: April 26th, 2024 4:13 AM Author: red national security agency wow, someone shld email rach immediately at jewNOTgiveaFUCK@gmail.com (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610584) |
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Date: April 26th, 2024 2:08 PM Author: Spectacular kitchen you really think rach is sitting there 24/7 monitoring the server? he's not.
the MUCH more likely response is that there's a nefarious process that's consuming tons of cpu cycles that eventually gets killed and then restarted after a while |
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Date: April 26th, 2024 4:20 AM Author: chocolate queen of the night tanning salon There is no indexing and the DB is too big for query jobs to finish timely. It runs a query for "last posted in" to populate your main page
Here is the thread from when rach last wiped the boart when this same issue was happening.
https://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1&mc=43&forum_id=2 |
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Date: April 26th, 2024 3:16 PM Author: adulterous lettuce (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47611618) |
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Date: April 26th, 2024 5:01 PM Author: Spectacular kitchen That's fake news. Otherwise, the index page would consistently take a long time to load, but it doesn't. There is indexing being done. Another possibility is that the site bogs down when too many searches are being run, to the point where nothing loads, because of the concurrent db operations on unindexed columns in tables, e.g., text search (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47611824) |
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Date: April 27th, 2024 11:46 AM Author: Heady Twinkling Uncleanness There are increasing reports of shitty companies scraping forums and accidentally DDOSing them
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ceco4f/claude_ai_name_and_shame/ |
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Date: April 27th, 2024 6:36 PM Author: Spectacular kitchen that's definitely possible (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47614121) |
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Date: April 27th, 2024 6:51 PM Author: copper roommate public bath YEah any database full of text generated by real people that isn't paywalled is subject to scraping right now. These AI companies are all datapigs trying to steal free content. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47614149) |
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Date: May 1st, 2024 3:10 AM Author: pussy-eating rapist (ELIMINATE TWO THIRDS OF THE SCHOOL DAY) imagine how 180 an AI trained on XO would be (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47623991) |