Connection Problems

[EmsoffLambs]

Krash, I just sent you a PM. I just reloaded the forum files to my ftp and the forum is working again for now, but I am concerned that it will go down again. I can now access my error log and I don't see anything that catches my eye before today. Only incorrect passwords and waiting approvals. The only critical errors were admin login attempts where I or the other admin entered the wrong password.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Was going to suggest reload.  Did you delete everything before replacing files?  Suspected your forum was hacked, it was acting erratically last night.  Sometimes I got SMF failed connection error (which means it reached the forum), sometimes an unable to load browser error, most often blank screen. 

There was a file in your forum root, dbtest.php, that appears to be a db test file.  I've deleted it.  It's possible a bot found it and was hammering it, causing a huge number of db connections.  If your account provides activity logs, you should be able to see if the file was taking a lot of hits.  Don't see anything else out of place, looks like a clean install otherwise. 

Might be a good idea to change your passwords - admin, cpanel, ftp, database.  You should also upgrade to 2.0.10, there've been a number of security patches since 2.0.6.

[EmsoffLambs]

Thank you sooo much! I will do all of that. I did not delete the old files prior to the reload but I will do that now. Hopefully that was the problem. I will change all passwords too. Thanks again.