{"id":600,"date":"2013-03-04T17:16:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T22:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2013\/03\/04\/excessive-amounts-of-errors\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:20:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:20:02","slug":"excessive-amounts-of-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/error-numbers\/excessive-amounts-of-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Excessive amounts of errors"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this article I\u2019ll review why an excessive amount of errors coming from your website, can have a negative impact on your account\u2019s resource usage.<\/p>\n

What is a website error?<\/h2>\n

For the transmition of websites, servers and web-browsers use certain status codes to relay information quickly. For example if you ask a server for an image file and the server finds that file, it will respond to your web-browser with a 200 \u2013 OK<\/strong> HTTP response. This tells your web-browser the file was found and transferred successfully.<\/p>\n

Certain types of responses indicate an error, and these error codes can give you insight as to what\u2019s going on with your website\u2019s traffic, and how some visitors might not be seeing your full website as expected.<\/p>\n

403 \u2013 Forbidden<\/h2>\n

When a 403 forbidden error<\/a> is encountered, this is the server denying access to the requested file from the visitor. This is usally caused by either permissions, or by rules placed inside a .htaccess<\/strong> file.<\/p>\n

Typically when someone is causing a 403<\/strong> error, it won\u2019t directly cause a lot of resource usage, since they are being denied access to have the server run the script they might be requesting. However if they are trying to crawl your website and do find some sections that are not denying them access that could lead to extra usage.<\/p>\n

404 \u2013 Not Found<\/h2>\n

If the server was unable to find the image file that you requested, then it would instead respond with a 404 \u2013 Not Found<\/strong> response. You can read more about 404 error not found pages<\/a> to see why it can be a problem for a server to dynamically handle these types of errors.<\/p>\n

Seeing a large amount of 404<\/strong> errors is usually bad, you typically want to block users that are randomly guessing at URLs that don\u2019t exist, or update incorrect links that are pointing to files that no longer exist.<\/p>\n

406 \u2013 Not Acceptable<\/h2>\n

Most commonly a 406 not acceptable error<\/a> will happen when a ModSecurity rule has been triggered. This can indicate a known malicious type of request against your site, or also commonly a false alarm being triggered by a plugin you might have enabled.<\/p>\n

You can disable ModSecurity completely on your shared hosting account using our ModSec manager plugin mentioned in the link above. If you\u2019re on a VPS or dedicated server you can also find and disable specific ModSecurity rules<\/a> that might be getting triggered by a legitimate request you are trying.<\/p>\n

500 \u2013 Internal Server Error<\/h2>\n

The 500 internal server error<\/a> is encountered when there is a unexpected condition in the request, and it prevents the server from serving the expected data. This is typically caused when there is a problem in the code of one of your PHP or other server-side scripts.<\/p>\n

When an unexpected error like this is happening, it can lead to multiple unessary executions of code, and it can also cause 100% CPU usage for extended periods of time. Because of this, it\u2019s always good practice to ensure your website isn\u2019t getting a large number of errors to cut down on resource usage.<\/p>\n

Checking your site for errors<\/h2>\n

Using the steps below you can easily find if one of your websites has been encountering a large amount of any errors.<\/p>\n

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  1. Login to your cPanel<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Under the Logs<\/strong> section, click on Awstats<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  3. Click on the magnifying glass next to the domain you\u2019d like to check for errors.<\/li>\n
  4. Toward the very bottom of the left column, click on the HTTP Status codes<\/strong> link.<\/li>\n
  5. In this case we can see the most common error encountered was 404<\/strong>, if we click on it we can see which requests caused the most 404<\/strong> errors too.
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    You should now understand why an excessive amount of errors on your website could lead to resource usage issues, and possible cause an account suspension<\/a> under extreme circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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