Hi, I have been running free webhosting for a year. Now Im getting a new server but I ran into a small prob. Recently the server that does free hosting has had a huge surge of warez being uploaded, causing my line to be maxed out 24/7. I have never had it this bad before and twice a day I think about taking an axe to the server. What Im looking for is something to bottleneck the server. For example I want limit the server from sending out more then 30k a sec. Now I tried mod_bandwidth. It showed that it was loaded, gave no error when I added commands to httpd.conf, but when I ran it nothing happend. Nothing in the logs, just nothing. Then I tried to use mod_throttle, making it so that anyone dling 500 kilabytes in less then 2 min, will be temperarly blocked. This really had no effect. Any one know of any other software that I can achive this goal with? My new server comes online Friday and I am hopeing to resolve this by then. Thank you.

I'd suggest you contact other FWP's and ask them how they combat this problem. Some of them hang out and post at http://www.freewebspace.net/forums

You might want to consider limiting filesizes (that members can upload), not allowing zip/exe, etc. They will give you some tips to get things under control...

The thing is at this point, Im not all too worried about combating it anymore. Due to some legal issues I have already resolved to close it down by September. Mainly until that time I want to use the advertising it gets for some of my own things. I basicly want to leave it be, but I dont want it interfear with anything else. If I check 2-3 times a day(takes about 30 min each look) I can keep it pretty much under control, but I just dont have time like that. I just basicly really want to limit it and forget it. I will check over there also. Thanks

The thing is at this point, Im not all too worried about combating it anymore. Due to some legal issues I have already resolved to close it down by September. Mainly until that time I want to use the advertising it gets for some of my own things. I basicly want to leave it be, but I dont want it interfear with anything else. If I check 2-3 times a day(takes about 30 min each look) I can keep it pretty much under control, but I just dont have time like that. I just basicly really want to limit it and forget it. I will check over there also. Thanks

What type of server are you running? Apache has a module that you can download and its called Mod_throttle do a search on google for it.. Very easy to install and easy to use. you can throttle the bandwidth for each virtual site as needed. Lemme know if you need anyhelp on it.