Repeated CPU Resource Usage Warning Emails

itsme44 · July 15, 2026, 11:00am

Website URL

https://screamerwikiarchive.rf.gd

Other Information

My account been receiving continuous “resource usage warning” emails stating: “The resources that your site has used over 50% on is: cpu warning”

My website only contains a very small “index.php” file and an .htaccess file. There is nothing CPU-intensive running on the site, and there are no additional scripts, applications, or content that should be generating significant CPU usage like this. Could I please get some help on what is causing them or how to avoid it?

dan3008 · July 15, 2026, 12:04pm

Welcome to the forum.

Please be aware that this is a community forum, so we have no more access than you do to anything on the back end, and we don’t have any access to your files.

In your Index.php is there any kind of loop that might be running away causing a CPU spike?

Also, not to be mean, but slagging off your hosting service on your site… doesn’t look good lol

edit:
Just realised you’ve linked to a download of your site on Archive.org. So I’ll take a look at that after work. But a quick glance suggests you had a LOT more than just a “very small index.php”

itsme44 · July 15, 2026, 3:55pm

Hi, I don’t know if this helps but the current index.php on my site is just a static notice page with a few redirect checks and links to the Wayback Machine, there’s no infinite loops or anything of that sort.

My site did previously have MediaWiki installed, but I’ve removed it completely (including the database and everything associated with it).

I’m just super confused by the continued CPU usage warnings. Maybe something different is causing them (perhaps bots, cache issues, etc?)

dan3008 · July 15, 2026, 4:34pm

So media wiki is quite CPU intensive.

Cache actually reduces CPU usage
If it were bots you’d also see a spike in hits.

Can you share the email you’re receiving so we can take a look

itsme44 · July 15, 2026, 5:16pm

Here is the email:

Hosting Warning [email protected]

Jul 12, 2026, 8:06 PM (3 days ago)
Hello Valued Customer,

This mail is to inform you that your site with the username if0_41495002 has utilised over 50% of its daily resource limits.

This limit is reset every day.

The resources that your site has used over 50% on is :

cpu warning

You can log into your cpanel with the username if0_41495002 and in here click on ‘Account Statistics’ in here there are graphs that show your daily resource usage.

The free plan is a great place to get your site online and making profit, however it does have limited resources available to it, you would need to optimize your script(s) to reduce usage, OR upgrade to a premium plan.

Premium plans have a MUCH higher resource allocation, along with the cPanel panel unlimited disk space, and much much more. For more information please visit

Once the premium hosting account has been purchased please create a support ticket asking for your free hosting account to be migrated to the premium hosting account and we will do the rest.

Regards

itsme44 · August 5, 2026, 3:15pm

Website URL

https://screamerwikiarchive.rf.gd/

Error Message

This mail is to inform you that your site with the username if0_41495002 has utilised over 50% of its daily resource limits.

Other Information

I have still been receiving the same CPU resource usage warning emails almost every day. I previously made a thread about this (titled “Repeated CPU Resource Usage Warning Emails”), where I explained everything and also posted the full warning email in the previous thread.

That thread has now been automatically locked, and I never even received a response to my last post. Could someone help determine what is actually causing this issue?

dan3008 · August 5, 2026, 3:22pm

Hi again

I’m surprised you’re still getting those emails. If you go into your dashboard and look at “resource usage” does it show a spike in CPU usage there?

Given that your home page is a static HTML page, it shouldn’t be using much, if any, CPU time… There isn’t a second domain on the same account that could be getting hits is there?

itsme44 · August 5, 2026, 6:52pm

Yes, it seems like it does, but it’s not telling me anything else besides that. I also don’t have any other domains hosted on this account.

itsme44 · August 5, 2026, 6:53pm

The daily hits graph also looks like this:

dan3008 · August 5, 2026, 7:07pm

The CPU graph seems to match with the hits graph… Are any of you’re old pages still on the account?

itsme44 · August 5, 2026, 8:06pm

No, I’ve gotten rid of everything that was on the site.

dan3008 · August 5, 2026, 9:07pm

So all the old files have been deleted?

Mmm, based in the graph it looks like the emails are being triggered correctly, what’s strange is that your page has such high CPU usage if it’s a static html page. Even a basic php page shouldn’t have that high usage…

Only other thought I’ve got is of your page is actually a php page and it’s doing a LOT more than displaying that one error message, but of that were the case then you’d know and wouldn’t need to ask.

Im assuming you wrote the new index file yourself and it’s not a mediawiki page?

itsme44 · August 5, 2026, 9:42pm

Correct, this is the source code:

<?php
$requestUri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

// Remove query string for matching
$path = parse_url($requestUri, PHP_URL_PATH);

// Build current URL
$currentUrl =
    ((isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] !== 'off') ? 'https' : 'http')
    . '://'
    . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
    . $requestUri;

// URL used only for Wayback Machine links
$waybackUrl = preg_replace('/\?i=[123](?:&|$)/', '?', $currentUrl);

// Clean up a trailing ? if it was the only query parameter
$waybackUrl = rtrim($waybackUrl, '?');

// If URL ends with /index.php/, remove the trailing slash
if (preg_match('#/index\.php/$#', $path)) {
    header('Location: ' . rtrim($currentUrl, '/'), true, 301);
    exit;
}

// If anything comes after index.php, redirect to Wayback Machine
if (preg_match('#/index\.php/.+#', $path)) {
    header('Location: https://web.archive.org/web/0/' . $currentUrl, true, 302);
    exit;
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Site unavailable</title>

    <style>
        body {
            margin: 0;
            padding: 0;
            background: #f2f2f2;
            font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
            color: #333;
        }

        #wrapper {
            width: 700px;
            margin: 80px auto;
            background: #fff;
            border: 1px solid #ccc;
            padding: 30px;
            text-align: center;
        }

        h1 {
            margin-top: 0;
            font-size: 30px;
            color: #444;
        }

        p {
            line-height: 1.6;
            margin: 18px 0;
        }

        a {
            color: #0066cc;
            text-decoration: none;
        }

        a:hover {
            text-decoration: underline;
        }

        .footer {
            margin-top: 35px;
            font-size: 12px;
            color: #777;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>

<div id="wrapper">
    <h1>Website Unavailable</h1>

    <p>Hi guys!</p>

    <p>
        Unfortunately, this website can no longer be hosted due to CPU limits and other
        server resource issues.
    </p>

    <?php
    $currentUrl =
        ((isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] !== 'off') ? 'https' : 'http')
        . '://'
        . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
        . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    ?>

    <p>
        You can still view everything on the Wayback Machine (thanks to ArchiveTeam!) by clicking <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://screamerwikiarchive.rf.gd/index.php/Main_Page">here (main page)</a>
        or
         <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/<?php echo htmlspecialchars($currentUrl); ?>*">
            here (sitemap)
        </a>
    </p>

    <p>
        If you'd like to host a copy of this website yourself, you can download
        everything here:
        <a href="https://archive.org/details/screamer-wiki-archive">
            https://archive.org/details/screamer-wiki-archive
        </a>.
    </p>

</div>

</body>
</html>

dan3008 · August 6, 2026, 7:28am

That shouldn’t be causing that much CPU usage. I have pages doing a lot more and never come close to the limit.

There must be something else going on here, im just not sure what. Maybe admin can shine some light on it, but it’s difficult because other than the graphs, there is little to no logging so there no way to see what’s causing the CPU usage

itsme44 · August 6, 2026, 2:21pm

Thanks so much for trying to help, hopefully the owner of InfinityFree can look into what’s going on. The only thing I can think of at this point is that bots are repeatedly hitting the site, but I’m not sure if that’s actually the cause or how I would go about stopping it.

Admin · August 6, 2026, 3:06pm

I asked the question upstream, and it turns out that there was a problem on the platform side: the counters were not successfully cleared and it was tallying up usage from the previous month with the current month.

The data has now been cleared, which cleans up the bad data in the graph. I suspect that this will also fix the email issue, but I’m not completely sure if they use the same data as the source, I’m still checking that.