another bandwidth question

[zmiservices]

Rather than hijack another bandwidth question I am asking in a new thread.

I don't know how to investigate bandwidth use.

It seems one of my forums (vbulletin) (a ww2 collector forum) was shut down xmas eve and day) due to excessive bandwidth. This never happened with a previous host.

The only thing I knew how to do was increase the bandwidth allowed via the whm panel to bring the site back up.

Could someone tell me what causes excess bandwidth and what I could do to save bandwidth.

There doesn't appear to be more than 25 people on at any given time?

Thanks for any help.

[GvilleRick]

When you assign a bandwidth quota in WHM for an account it will be suspended when it exceeds the bandwidth. It is difficult to provide much advice on how to handle this with the limited information given here. Was the account on a reseller plan on the old host? Did it have more bandwidth assigned?

When I was using a reseller account I generally checked on the bandwidth usage in WHM near the middle of the month to see if any accounts were using more than 50% of their quota. If so, I would increase bandwidth then to prevent suspension later.

You can also check the stats in AWStats to see if there are Googlebots or something using a lot of bandwidth.

[Goddess Dix]

Originally Posted by mallee

It seems one of my forums (vbulletin) (a ww2 collector forum) was shut down xmas eve and day) due to excessive bandwidth. This never happened with a previous host.

if you're on a reseller account, the bandwidth is whatever you've set it to, so it's not host specific. maybe the site got hit for some reason or maybe you have it set lower now, but not really related to the host directly.

The only thing I knew how to do was increase the bandwidth allowed via the whm panel to bring the site back up.

Could someone tell me what causes excess bandwidth and what I could do to save bandwidth.

"excess" is anything more than assigned. and i assume you know that bandwith is from all the html, images, and various other files that get transferred when someone interacts with a site or downloads files and images, right?

There doesn't appear to be more than 25 people on at any given time?

look in the logfiles for the site in question to see what was going on that day...for a light use vb install, it would most likely be an ill-behaved bot, somebody linking a picture on a very popular site, or something along those lines. normal, legit use of a forum that size, it's unlikely they could go over any reasonably set bandwith limit without something being amiss.

does that help?

[zmiservices]

Yes a reseller account hosting just a few of my own sites under it (each on separate accts., and by domain name)

Thank you for the help. I had it set to 5000 then once I realized the quota was reached I upped it to 10k. I will look at those stats and keep an eye on what goes on.

"excess" is anything more than assigned. and i assume you know that bandwith is from all the html, images, and various other files that get transferred when someone interacts with a site or downloads files and images, right?

No I didn't know that but now I do. Thanks again.

[Goddess Dix]

yeah, i wouldn't be suprised if it was a misbehaving bot.

[gtgeorge]

Originally Posted by mallee

Yes a reseller account hosting just a few of my own sites under it (each on separate accts., and by domain name)

Thank you for the help. I had it set to 5000 then once I realized the quota was reached I upped it to 10k. I will look at those stats and keep an eye on what goes on.



No I didn't know that but now I do. Thanks again.

You can look over your stats, but 5gb isn't really that much bandwidth. Look over your stats and see what caused the increase in traffic...

[zmiservices]

Oh I didn't know that 5 gigs wouldn't be enough. psst., I think you know George I'm not that bright with this stuff. 5 gigs sounds like allot.

I upped it again to 20gigs so I will wait and see if that's enough.

[slapshotw]

You should see your stats though...you need to know *what* caused the bandwidth hit. If it's just some bot it might be blockable.

[zmiservices]

Okay, thank you.

I looked at the stats and:

Month Daily Avg & Monthly Totals
Hits Files Pages Visits Sites KBytes Visits Pages Files Hits

Dec 2007

94910 40249 1253 567 8334 8791271 14752 32594 1046482 2467682

Nov 2007

89352 39254 1125 517 6582 6937074 11394 24764 863588 1965760

Totals 15728345 26146 57358 1910070 4433442
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then I looked at webalizer and found:

more stats. I have to work on figuring these out.

[gtgeorge]

Originally Posted by mallee

Oh I didn't know that 5 gigs wouldn't be enough. psst., I think you know George I'm not that bright with this stuff. 5 gigs sounds like allot.

I upped it again to 20gigs so I will wait and see if that's enough.

With all those images being posted and retrieved for the old guns and tanks, the bandwidth goes up along with that GIANT db