KingSumo Giveaway Adding Categories To Giveaways

Recently, we ran into a problem where we needed the ability to exclude certain KingSumo giveaways that were running from showing up on a primary giveaway rotator we had created. This sounded like a simple enough job – our initial thought was that we could just exclude the ‘X’ category from the slider. However, we […]

xmlrpc.php causing ram leak and mysql to crash

It’s been a busy Sunday morning. I spent the morning troubleshooting a server that was having massive CPU spikes. It was almost constantly around 90% or higher. RAM usage was spilling over to the swap file, consuming the entire swap file, and then crashing MySQL – bringing down the website. What was the culprit? xmlrpc.php […]