One of my sites in the past three days has shown that it used 120MB of bandwidth. Although cPanel shut the site down after it thought it used 65MB of the 500MB limit :eek:
This site is a new bulletin board, so it's not like it's busy.
I asked my provider, not only how cPanel could say it was using 65MB (I don't believe it came close). His reply was,

"You have 16MB of files occupied If one person browses through everything once...It will take up 16MB of bandwidth.
If he looks around the whole website 4 times....Thats about 65MB of bandwidth."

I didn't think that was the way the math works.
Can someone enlighten one of us?

Do you have access to the raw log files? Running them through an analysis program like analog is the best way to see where the bandwidth is going. You can immediately see which pages/files are being downloaded the most and how much of you bandwidth they account for.

As to whether someone downloading 16 megs of files 4 times, that would take 64 megs of bandwidth (assuming that the files were not cached on their machine or in their ISPs network). Most users will not do that, but if you really have 16 megs of content, some people may consume several megs of bandwidth. Also, bots will download lots of things (most won't touch images, but some will).

-joe

SoftWareRevue, I had a similar problem with a site once, and it turned out to be a CPanel bug, which could be fixed by resetting the bandwidth allocation from WebHost Manager (your hosting company should be able to do this).

I don't think the way your hosting company responded to your problem was very friendly. :(

Originally posted by SoftWareRevue
Although cPanel shut the site down after it thought it used 65MB of the 500MB limit :eek:


I have been playing around with CPanel for the last 7 months. Though I am not an expert by all means, I can gurantee you that CPanel will not shut your site down if you only use 65MB out of the 500MB bandwith quota you have. In fact, in many cases, Cpanel did not shut down the site even after the site consumes more than the allocated bandwith, since Cpanel only calculates bandwith on daily basis.... My guess, your host offered you much less bandwith that he told you he did.


"You have 16MB of files occupied If one person browses through everything once...It will take up 16MB of bandwidth.
If he looks around the whole website 4 times....Thats about 65MB of bandwidth."

I didn't think that was the way the math works.
Can someone enlighten one of us?

Your host is a clueless webhost! Noway will a person download all the files in your /home directory. Even if it happens, ask him why your site got shut off at 65MB bandwith usage, not at 500MB as it supposed to be ...

cheers,
:beer: