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
This could very likely be due to (referer) spam bots. To investigate, please check both your Drupal and web server logs to see what kind of traffic your site is receiving. You might also want to search for the word "spam" on the modules page to get a list of modules that might be of help - e.g. the Bad Behaviour module.
Keep us posted :) -K
On 16/01/06, Larry naasei@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
Thanks for this karthik.
I actually using the bad behavoiur and spam module
Regards
larry On 1/16/06, Karthik narakasura@gmail.com wrote:
This could very likely be due to (referer) spam bots. To investigate, please check both your Drupal and web server logs to see what kind of traffic your site is receiving. You might also want to search for the word "spam" on the modules page to get a list of modules that might be of help - e.g. the Bad Behaviour module.
Keep us posted :) -K
On 16/01/06, Larry naasei@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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On 16/01/06, Larry naasei@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for this karthik.
I actually using the bad behavoiur and spam module
Then I'm afraid you're going to have to sift through those logs to weed out the issue.
Best of luck :) -K
I have tried but couldn't open my access log (over 350MB) tehre is nothing in the drupla logs suggesting spambots though
larry
On 1/16/06, Karthik narakasura@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/01/06, Larry naasei@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for this karthik.
I actually using the bad behavoiur and spam module
Then I'm afraid you're going to have to sift through those logs to weed out the issue.
Best of luck :)
-K
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Most hosting control panels usually come with a decent stats program. I recommend that you contact your host and ask them the best way you can do this..
-K
On 16/01/06, Larry naasei@gmail.com wrote:
I have tried but couldn't open my access log (over 350MB) tehre is nothing in the drupla logs suggesting spambots though
larry
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@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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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@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@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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Hi,
Larry, I had something similar happening, and it turned outthat I was doing some getimgsizes() on a full URL. Hence downloading that very image twice for every pageload. Worse: since normally users turning back have the image cached they will not dowload it, whie the getimgsize counted as BW use every single time.
So, Could you provide us with a list of modules you use and with some indications on special theme fucntions you use?
Bèr
Op maandag 16 januari 2006 05:23, schreef Larry:
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
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.
Just curious. What is the reasoning for turning off the feedback module? Is it to reduce form spam?
Thanks, Mark
From: "J. Antas" antas@e-healthexpert.org Reply-To: support@drupal.org Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:28:15 +0000 To: support@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
- In your web server goto the Drupal root dir (sometimes /public_html)
and delete "xmlrpc.php", or rename it to "xmlrpc.bak",
Get rid of the "Feedback" module if you have one,
In "Adminsiter"->"Modules" uncheck:
a) blogapi b) drupal c) ping
- 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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Mark Shropshire wrote:
Just curious. What is the reasoning for turning off the feedback module? Is it to reduce form spam?
The Feedback module is a nice idea, badly coded.
As it is done now, The Feedback module is an open door to use it as a sand box to test not only spam, but any kind of code injection.
Each time that a new exploit (to attack PHP, database, Drupal, etc.) gets known, you will have at your site an open door ready to test it.
It would be much more secure if it had some kind of Captcha protecting it... but then again, captchas have problems of their own!
P. --
Thanks for letting me know that I have used it once, but will take it down. What do folks use for contact forms? The forms module and just build a custom form?
Thanks, Mark
From: "J. Antas" antas@e-healthexpert.org Reply-To: support@drupal.org Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:31:49 +0000 To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] excessive bandwith usage
Mark Shropshire wrote:
Just curious. What is the reasoning for turning off the feedback module? Is it to reduce form spam?
The Feedback module is a nice idea, badly coded.
As it is done now, The Feedback module is an open door to use it as a sand box to test not only spam, but any kind of code injection.
Each time that a new exploit (to attack PHP, database, Drupal, etc.) gets known, you will have at your site an open door ready to test it.
It would be much more secure if it had some kind of Captcha protecting it... but then again, captchas have problems of their own!
P.
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