Hi ...
I have question for everybody who has D-server. I have my D server with www.venturesonline.com , this is good new company , and I had no problem until I got my Bill few days ago.... I pay 200 $ /mo. for server and 3$/1GB for additional Trafic more then 25 GB (that include in my plan). So I was sure that my server can't go over 25 GB /mo. cuz I checked every day my stat from WebHostManager and Webalizer Web stat too. It was less then 23GB at end of the month. But guys from my hosting company claim that my "actual" traffic was 50 GB for this month ?!? :eek: And of cause they took money for it.

I can't get it guys, how could it be posible ? I can understand that WebHostManager show ONLY HHTP traffic, but I am DON'T use anything alse , no ftp server , no nothing. Telnet ? Yes I use it but it can't make such traffic right...

My company said that they get "actual" traffic from my Port , I don't understand which port (my server port, or switch port where my server connected) , does it mean that if somebody will PING my server all the time I will have to pay money for this traffic too ?

I also was very surprise then I found that my "actual" Byte - IN traffic more that my Byte- OUT ... look at this :

Bytes-in : 31.496.144.400
Bytes-out : 19.228.764.600
Bytes-total : 50.724.909.000

Please help me guys, I can't sleep well because I don't know where is the problem and WHY... :(

I do not resale any webspace or account , I just use this server for my own website, I have UBB board and alot of pages and scripts and I have about 1000 visitors per day... I was ready to open new features on my site to bring more people but now I don't know how can I hadle this. More people , more traffic , more money...

thank you ...

Im not sure but i would bet that cpanel only keeps track of bytes out, and usually when you send bytes out you get bytes back in.. im not a tech by any means so dont quote me... but it is normal fro a hosting company to charge for both bytes in and bytes out and too add them together

I recommend you to install mrtg:

http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

which can measure traffic at your ethernet card and give you pretty good idea on how much you are going to be charged at the end of the month.

Why inbound traffic is bigger I do not know. I did not get any meaningful answer from Rackshack about similar situation: http://www.rackshack.net/bandwidth/workdir1/216.40.212.243_13.html

If anybody can explain that I would be very interested to listen.

Originally posted by dabystru
Why inbound traffic is bigger I do not know. I did not get any meaningful answer from Rackshack about similar situation: http://www.rackshack.net/bandwidth/workdir1/216.40.212.243_13.html

If anybody can explain that I would be very interested to listen.

It looks to me like MRTG is on the wrong side of the switch, ie inbound and outbound are reversed. Apart from that those graphs look pretty normal for HTTP traffic.

Kris,

You should make a post in VO forums asking other webmasters about their bandwidth usage. Ask them what they see in Webhostmanager & what is the amount they are actually being charged. You can ask eva2000 here. He is very helpful and he got a dedicated server from VO as well.

make a post here http://venturesonline.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=22

as i'm interested in the answer as well..

from my WHM bandwidth view, i'm using 2.5GB/day with a 100GB/month allowance and no discrepencies like this

well i just found out where all the logs are kept on the servers

/usr/local/apache/domlogs/

you have 4 files to each account/site you setup and it includes a log for ftp as well... so you can grab them and analyse them i think (VO Forum)

One more thing, actual usage and bandwidth average are not the same thing. Bandwidth is how fast is being delivered and has spikes and valleys. Amount transferred is the physical files. Traffic should always be measured at the tranfers rate not the actual file size moved since that is how all providers charge as well. Using the average in stead of the 95th just brings that overall amount closer to your actual tansfer.

Thank you guys for answers, I will try post this to VO forum as well. Jag, what do you mean by "Using the average in stead of the 95th just brings that overall amount closer to your actual tansfer. ".

And yes they using mrtg programm for calculate total traffic on my D-server.

Just an incidental note... bandwidth at the switch level != bandwidth at the application level. Transferring a 1MB file, for example, will take anywhere from 1.02MB to 1.1MB of bandwidth (as measured by switches) due to network headers.