Bandwith Skyrocketing

[slip]

Ever since I have started up my new marketng programs I have been recieving alot of hits. Today when awstats updated at 12 noon I had 20K unique visitors and 9.3GB of bandwith used. I am very excited that I have recieved so many unique visitors to my website but I am scared for my bandwith overages.

I was wondering what any DP Members suggest I should do. Is there a way I could decrease bandwith used by optimizing my site? Switch to a dedicated server? or are there good web hosting companys that cater to my situation?(IE: large bandwith per month caps).

Thank you very much for your help.

P.S. my site is www.sadstatue.com , incase that helps you.

[slip]

i have 90GB of bandwith per month by the way.

[madkad]

to make yoy bandwidth less you could remove images and place css insted as the smaller the page size the less it will use of bandwith :)

90GB of bandwith per month is a lot and it would take some going to go over that so i wouldnt worry to much :D

[slip]

well just look at how much bandwith i used for half a day....9GB+...

and also can you tell me how i would remove the images and place CSS? im unfamiliar with CSS

[rosytoes]

if you care to, you can examine your server logs to see if these are all legitimate visitors. Bad spiders/bots are quite often the cause of excessive bandwidth usage. If you find any, just block them in your htaccess.

[slip]

how do i determine which are good and which are bad? and by server logs would awstats do the trick?