[support] excessive bandwith usage

Larry naasei at gmail.com
Mon Jan 16 09:43:44 UTC 2006


Well i have sicnedisabled it. I ahd autofocus which  refrehes like
every second or :)
Since December the site has been shut down four times for lack of
bandwith allocation. I ahve alfeady used 170GB of bandwith this month.

Larry


On 1/16/06, Kobus Myburgh <itbjdm at puknet.puk.ac.za> wrote:
> Larry - that seems to be the problem. You could cut your usage with 76%+ if you get rid of this...
>
> Regards,
>
> Kobus
>
>
> >>> naasei at gmail.com 1/16/2006 11:33:07 AM >>>
> Skip,
>
> My badnwith is more than that. if my bandwith is pver 150GB for this
> monthly. I have been asked by the hoting company to solve it by today
> or stop using their shared server.
>
> Looking at my referrers,I notice that
> example.com/admin_users_refresh.php has 32350 which is 76.17%  of the
> total hits. This is craty syntax, a live help OS tht I use to monitor
> the site.
>
> Could this be the problem?
>
> Regards
>
> larry
>
> On 1/16/06, Skip Taylor <avskip at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Larry,
> >
> > I had something similar happen. I wasn't warned by the hosting company, but
> > I did notice my bandwidth was way out of line.
> >
> > My server log had grown to 300+MB and my bandwidth was at 2+GB.
> >
> > It turned out that Google had used up 1.6GB bandwidth in that one month and
> > most of the log was the Googlebot having it's own party.
> >
> > I wrote to them and asked them to look into it and it stopped.
> >
> > Maybe it's something like this?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Skip
> >
> >
> > On 1/15/06, Larry <naasei at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Greetings all,
> > >
> > > My site appears to be using too much bandwith. Iam on a shared hosting
> > > server and my provider has told me I am using in excess of 16% whilst
> > > I am only allowed 3%
> > > It also appears there about 50,000 visitors a day to the site  which
> > > is a bit alrming as I have less than 300 members,
> > >
> > > What modules or scripts do you guys think are causing this excessive
> > > bandwith usage?
> > > I am running drupal 4.63
> > >
> > > regards
> > >
> > > Larry
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