My wordpress blog at modospot.com/review is about to exceed 20g of its bandwidth. I do not know this is so because i do not get much traffic to my blog. Does anyone know what is causing this and how i can stop it? I feel this is the work of bots. Please help me.
To block all bots to your site create robots.txt and paste this text inside :- upload robots.txt to root directory of your host Hope this will help.
Hey @coba do you really think stopping search engines (including Google) to index your site is good idea? @bigmodo there are too many contents per page in your site. Your homepage saved is almost 3 MB Just quick maths, currently for 1000 pageviews you spend = 3GB traffic. Note, not unique visitors but pageviews. 1 user may reload more than once some of your pages. So, my suggestion is to optimize the content per page
To block from search engine is not a good way, but some time I need to block my website because of over used of bandwidth. My host with 50 GB bandwidth and 25,000 articles. Last week I deleted old posts from SQL to reduced bandwidth limit and now with 15,000 articles.
Get with your host. You should have a stats program of some sort included with your hosting package. Find out where the traffic is coming from. It may be coming from all one source or a few sources. It may also be email spammers relaying their spam emails through your server. This really is a question for your host though as they're the only ones who can have access to the stats and logs. Blocking via robots.txt is a bad idea as 1) "evil" bots aren't going to even look at the file and 2) it'll block out the good bots who do pay attention to the robots rules.
Go through your web logs and see what it is that is being downloaded and who's doing it. I ended up throttling MSNBot at this site because they were spidering at a rate that was using 2TB (yes, terabytes) per month.
Yup, had that happen to a client which is why you should be checking your webserver logs to see what's occurring. There should be an option in there to see the most popular urls and files being called. Also the most popular sources of traffic which is what Shawn and I were suggesting to check.
You have following options: 1. Install and configure WP Super Cache http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/ 2.Upgrade to better server which falls under your budget or 3.Optimize website loading time and performance
May want to double check the thread you;re posting in as the issue appears to be bandwidth related, not processor related.
Your are absolutely right! Wp-Super-cache and other ways to optimize the site do what ? It of-course decreases the bandwidth consumption by almost 50% of what it is use currently ! Anyway, if i'm not correct then forgive me, i'm a moron ! ~Peace
What you're probably looking at is the gzip option within the wp-super-cache plugin. That actually was an option in older versions of wordpress but was removed as too many servers didn;t support it. Donncha himself makes mention in the docs that it should only be turned on if you;re absolutely sure your server supports it. His plugin does ship with it turned off as a default. If you want to turn on gzip, you can actually do that in apache itself and save yourself the usage of a plugin. We still have 90 wordpress blogs on our servers along with 120 WPMu installs and we run wp-super-cache in half mode, just to save processor usage and cache the option data so it doesn;t have to be polled every time.