Cause of 508 error page

[diablo]

I'm seeing this:

Error 508. Resource Limit Is Reached

This website is temporarily unable to service your request as it has exceeded it’s resource limit. Please check back shortly.

I reported it to my host and they say the cause is:

"As per our check, overuse of the account resources is caused by the search engines optimization gaps."

Does anyone know what that even means?

 

[martin-s]

Robots are using up all of the resources you've paid for on your hosting package (processor time, bandwidth, memory allowance, etc).

Move to a better package and consider using htaccess or whatever to block bots you don't care about.

 

[accelerator]

"As per our check, overuse of the account resources is caused by the search engines optimization gaps."

Does anyone know what that even means?

It's not good English and not a good explanation.

If you have good over your allocated resources, it's usually bandwidth, i.e. data allowance. So, your page may have been served a lot of times and you've used up your daily or monthly data allowance. This sometimes happens if bots visit your site and automatically view a lot of your pages. I have had to block a lot of bots from my sites, you might need to do the same.

 

[diablo]

Thank you both.

 

[Skinner]

Odds are excessive memory usage, often caused by poor plug ins. Just check your logs and nuke the hogs.

 

[diablo]

Odds are excessive memory usage, often caused by poor plug ins. Just check your logs and nuke the hogs.

Thanks Skinner. Did initially think it was plugins so disabled what I could. Remaining ones (only six in total) are pretty standard like Wordfence, Akismet, etc.,

Is it the raw logs in cpanel that I should be looking through?

 

[Skinner]

If you have lots of images and on the fly watermarking / resizing that can be a killer too.

Cpanel logs should show you known bots, Google analytics should also tell you which Ip's are hammering your site.

Failing that, Raw logs will reveal them.

I would check Google analytics first, then cpanel like awstats, then raw.