[support] excessive bandwith usage

[Mark Shropshire]

Just curious. What is the reasoning for turning off the feedback module? Is
it to reduce form spam?

Thanks,
Mark


> From: "J. Antas" <antas at e-healthexpert.org>
> Reply-To: <support at drupal.org>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:28:15 +0000
> To: <support at drupal.org>
> Subject: Re: [support] excessive bandwith usage
> 
> Larry 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
>> 
> 
> 1. In your web server goto the Drupal root dir (sometimes /public_html)
> and delete "xmlrpc.php", or rename it to "xmlrpc.bak",
> 
> 2. Get rid of the "Feedback" module if you have one,
> 
> 3. In "Adminsiter"->"Modules" uncheck:
> a) blogapi
> b) drupal
> c) ping
> 
> 4. In "Administer" -> "settings" put
> a) "Auto-throttle on anonymous users" = 10
> b) "Auto-throttle on authenticated users" = 20
> c) "Auto-throttle probability limiter:" = 5%
> 
> Then let us know if it is better.
> 
> P.
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