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leojez
03-17-2002, 09:11 PM
Is there any way to measure how much bandwidth is being used on my site?

Thanks

311
03-17-2002, 09:20 PM
There are various methods of doing that. Do you own your own server? Are you using a shared hosting account?

It would help us more if you could elaborate...;)

leojez
03-17-2002, 09:45 PM
Sorry, I'm using a shared hosting account at Gearhost.

My website is www.eslkidstuff.com

Do you need any more info?

Thanks.

BenEDH
03-17-2002, 10:13 PM
Yes, i used to have agearhost account, thankfully i left because i couldnt stand the lack of a working control panel, but your logs should be locate din your root directory, and all you have to do is get a log analyzer (many available at download.com) and the analyze the logs, hope that helps :)

Aralanthir
03-17-2002, 10:35 PM
I'm just wondering, are there any ways to monitor bandwidth usage if you don't have a log file?

I'm only a poor student, and my hosting account comes with my ISP and they do not provide logs for anything. :\

311
03-17-2002, 10:46 PM
just ask your isp how much you're using, they'll most likley know...

jambler
03-17-2002, 10:50 PM
There are a few ways to do it. Especially if your on a *nix server. There is a count function on most firewalls that will add up the amount of packets that have passed through on a particular IP address. You might inquire about whether your network/server admin will set that up for you. I know for a fact that ipf does it quite well. I have had to use it more then once to track users stats.