my site traffic on well under 2,000 page-views is 3.6GB of bandwidth on less then 50KB pages. this is now the third month in a row. on Tuesday my bandwidth usage was 1.038GB at 1:15pm. when I checked it just now, it is at 4.650GB! on Monday the site was at around 22,000 page-views.

I am with Tera-Byte.com at this point, my site will exceed my bandwidth limit next month, and I iwll have no choice but to close down the site. I can't afford any bandwitdh overrun charges.

Has anyone else with Tera-byte having this problem? and have you been charged for going over your limit?

see my site http://www.macwrite.com it is so smal.it can't of done this much bandwitdh.

HELP!!!

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17716

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16187

Take a look at those threads. As you can see, I have blatently expressed my opinion on this issue, as it has happened for me as well for the last few months as well.

-Shawn

I have heard this from other people on this forum. What traffic reporting software is provided for your usage?

Good luck,
David Kiley

I use the bandwidth monitor on Tera-Byte.com but my web only stats (Web Trends Live) says my page-views are not even clost to the amount of page-views needed to generate that much traffic (at least 80,000 page-views).

I am almost convinced that it is this virus. I can't afford go over my traffic as this site doesn't generate traffic. nor should I have to pay for the traffic cuased by this virus. Tera-byte should have patched there servers/firewalls to block this virus (yes I know they are on Raq, but there firewall etc could be NT).

Originally posted by Mac Write
my site traffic on well under 2,000 page-views is 3.6GB of bandwidth on less then 50KB pages. this is now the third month in a row. on Tuesday my bandwidth usage was 1.038GB at 1:15pm. when I checked it just now, it is at 4.650GB! on Monday the site was at around 22,000 page-views.

I am with Tera-Byte.com at this point, my site will exceed my bandwidth limit next month, and I iwll have no choice but to close down the site. I can't afford any bandwitdh overrun charges.

Has anyone else with Tera-byte having this problem? and have you been charged for going over your limit?

see my site http://www.macwrite.com it is so smal.it can't of done this much bandwitdh.

HELP!!!

how exactly is your site going to hit 20 gigs in the next 9 days if your at 4.5 gigs now?

there has been a few queue requests created asking about this,ill try to explain bandwidth a little in an effort to explain it.

first off our system measures transfer by measuring the packets of information accross the router destined for an ip address.
this number simply can not be wrong, if the number was wrong that means the packets sent across the router would not reach the designated owner of those packets and all traffic on the internet ceases to exist.
whether the traffic shown in our monitor is caused by some worm or some other source is irrelivent as its still traffic, its traffic destined for your ip address and our job is to get it there.

so the question some would ask is why dont you block the traffic caused by the worm if that is whats causing the increase? quite simply how? do i block all ips of all windows servers throughout the internet so there is no possible chance worm traffic can hit the network? or do i add a few lines of code to the router that scans all traffic inbound for virus code and dumps it before its measured?
lets look at both of those options
option one, its pretty hard as a webhost to block all the windows type servers that exist from accessing the network the job of a webhost is to make the sites hosted on their servers accessable to the entire internet comunity not "the internet comunity that isnt infected" or "the internet comunity that some customers may want to allow access to"

so that leaves option two block out the virus with some code put on the router
is this possible? not really the router has a job that is to route traffic not to inspect it, if we ask the router to inspect traffic the load goes up, load increases so does latency and the possibility that traffic fails, altogether it works out that it isnt an obtainable solution. if it were a workable solution why havent the backbone providers already done so? why is the traffic reaching our routers in the first place? the answer is they also cant afford the load on their routers.

Steve

I just analysd the logs for my site for the week, and they only stated 380MB transfer.

The nimda worm did some crazy things to our log files, which included a *huge* spike in hits that peeked last Wednesday and has slowly gone down since (the same thing happened to every site that has a dedicated IP on our servers). If you have your raw log files you should easily be able to see where the worm is hitting you. I would e-mail Tera-byte customer service now, explain the situation, show them a portion of your log files, and see what they have to say.

Originally posted by Mac Write
I am almost convinced that it is this virus. I can't afford go over my traffic as this site doesn't generate traffic. nor should I have to pay for the traffic cuased by this virus. Tera-byte should have patched there servers/firewalls to block this virus (yes I know they are on Raq, but there firewall etc could be NT).
Please explain what you exactly mean with virus. If you mean one of the recent worms, then I doubt there is something to do against it, since these requests actually generate traffic.

Alexander

Originally posted by Mac Write
my site traffic on well under 2,000 page-views is 3.6GB of bandwidth on less then 50KB pages. this is now the third month in a row. on Tuesday my bandwidth usage was 1.038GB at 1:15pm. when I checked it just now, it is at 4.650GB! on Monday the site was at around 22,000 page-views.

I am with Tera-Byte.com at this point, my site will exceed my bandwidth limit next month, and I iwll have no choice but to close down the site. I can't afford any bandwitdh overrun charges.

Has anyone else with Tera-byte having this problem? and have you been charged for going over your limit?

see my site http://www.macwrite.com it is so smal.it can't of done this much bandwitdh.

HELP!!!

See our router graphs. This is weird!!!

Weekly Transfer:

Originally posted by microsol


See our router graphs. This is weird!!!

Weekly Transfer:



Daily Transfer: :eek:

microsol: those graphs are rediculously broken. PLEASE tell me you're not being billed based on those graphs.

Originally posted by microsol


See our router graphs. This is weird!!!

Weekly Transfer:


What do your logs show? Is there a similar pattern of activity in your logs?

Originally posted by cperciva
microsol: those graphs are rediculously broken. PLEASE tell me you're not being billed based on those graphs.

The unusual blue line pattern is caused by other servers on the same switch running multiple IP blocks.