Hi all.
I'm hosting a forum using phpBB. Webaliser tells me that my forum had 32165 page views. The average page on my forum is about 70kb.

32165*0.07 gives me ~2251mb of bandwith but cpanel gives me 5596 of bandwith. Am I missing something ? It more than the double.

Can you guys give me the number of page views your forum gets and how much bandwidth your forum consumes so I can try to understand something ?

Thanks.

Is your host using actuall, straight MRTG, or 95th percentile?

Actual, it's on a shared account.

Things to watch for in files that may be overlooked:

1- HTTP Transaction headers. If you're being billed for traffic and not simply upstream then all headers sent by the client to request content from you plus all headers sent by you to respond to that request will be included in your bandwidth fee. Though this doesn't seem like alot it can add a couple extra kilobytes to each HTTP request.

2- Local transactions or database interaction. If your host requires you to place DB files anywhere other than localhost they may be including your database traffic as part of the monthly allotment. This would provide a reasonable increase in your monthly transfer as data has to first be parsed and handled by the script before it's sent out to you.

Just some thoughts.

Regards,

-Doc

The DB server is at localhost so DB access should not consume bandwidth. I understand that headers consume bandwidth but in my opinion, it couldn't be half of the total bandwith ?

Thanks for your help :)

is mod_gzip installed on the server? You can ask your host or you can easily test it here (http://leknor.com/code/gziped.php)

cheers,
:beer:

No, mod_gzip isn't installed. I suppose they would make less money in bandwidth overcharges if they would have installed it.

Webasliser is reporting the same bandwith usage than Cpanel. So I suppose that it's not a Cpanel bug but I still can't understand how my forum uses all that bandwidth.

Thanks for your replies.

do you have IMG codes enabled?

maybe that could bring it up somewhat also

and about DB not taking up bandwidth...i'd check with your host on that part just in case...

Originally posted by illogix
Webaliser is reporting the same bandwith usage than Cpanel. So I suppose that it's not a Cpanel bug but I still can't understand how my forum uses all that bandwidth.


Recently I bought webspace at a place where they were using PHP/Zend optimizer. Just 2 days of experimenting with a PHP Board, Webalizer stats was showing approx 3 MB used. (I was the sole user...nobody else visited the site then). But CPanel4 showed 50+ MB or something.

Considering I was on 56 kbps dial-up, this looked like a joke to me. I asked my host and they told me it was something CPanel misreported. Since it was the last day of the month, the stats were reset anyway the next day. It's reporting fine now...don't know what went wrong there.