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.
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
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
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.