Graph of Memory & CPU using 7.1

Hi,

I've attached a graph of the last 24 hours of my websites CPU and Memory use. I changed from PHP 5.2 with xCache to PHP5.3 (xCache is not available). If you view the graph I changed at 12:00 yesterday.  

Here is my question, why so much more CPU usage? It went from nil to over 150%. I have 1024meg of Ram memory.  

The only usage is from it getting hits from China at 3:00, 4:10, 5:40 and 6:10.  But, I have all Chinese IP address blocked and my error.log confirms that they were blocked by my .htaccess IP deny list. But outside of those hits, there was no other activity on the site(except that I had "Enable member IP tracking" working from 01:00 until 6:00).

Should I go back to PHP5.2(with xCache) or stay with PHP5.3 (without xCache)? 

Thanks

You should consider using the free side of Cloud Flare.

Even though you see some hits from China, your also not seeing the "bots" that are actively attacking your site..

Search here, top right box, "Cloud Flare" there are many topics on it.

I use it on my 7.1 demo site and made a video of what it can do for you..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWUSRqZmhAw

 Hi Newton - Thank you very much - will take a look at the video.  I'm beginning to think that it was having the IP logging going over night that caused most of the CPU usage.  I've since turned it off and my CPU usage dropped to almost nil.

It was very easy to set-up with my web host - took less than 1 min get it up and going. CloudFlare looks great. Thank again for the suggestion.

 Thanks for this info. I just signed up and pointed my DNS's there so we will see how it works for me.