Hi all,
My VPS went down around 12 AM EST last night. It's back up now but I'm trying to figure out why it went down. It doesn't seem like I hit any limits and according to this FAQ in the VPS knowledgebase:
We will charge you $0.75 per each Gigabyte over the bandwidth limit for your plan, we don�t suspend your account and do not send out a warning to you. If you feel that you don�t want to go over the limit, you can limit your accounts so that they cease to operate if you reach the bandwidth limit for your VPS.
I didn't see any out of the ordinary spikes in traffic for both sites hosted on the account.
I submitted a ticket to support but haven't heard anything for almost 4 hours. My concern is that it may happen again tonight and one of the sites (an online community) is being heavily promoted right now. I'm just trying to be proactive and want to know if there are any default settings I could modify that might have been the culprit. The online community only has about 100 members now so the VPS account should be able to handle this.
I'm a VPS newbie and would appreciate any suggestions!