Hi Friends, I woke up to discover that my website is not loading and discovered that its bandwidth has been overshot by a wave of traffic links to it. Now, I need to solve this problem but the hosting company is not being too helpful with this problem. Is there a way I can free up the website's bandwidth? I have access to the c panel still. Thanks in advance.
hello, maybe if you provide more information ! such website url, which CMS you use !? is it on shared hosting !?
If your site is getting more popular and you are using your monthly quota then you should upgrade your package to one that is more suitable. Be careful of so-called "unlimited" packages are there are usually some limits/cut-offs (or the performance is very poor). Sure, you could optimise your site, but this won't resolve the problem permanently if it's due to your site's popularity. Or do you mean something else?!
It's time to monetise your site to make the most of the extra traffic - and use that money to pay for decent hosting.
Use cloudflare to decrease bandwidth and attack on your site up to 40% . Upgrade or change your host if you think it won't work.!
No body can offer you advice based on the information (or lack of rather) provided. Maybe you are serving large size videos. Maybe your web host has allocated a insufficient amount of bandwidth for your site. Who knows... The solution is easy...pay for more bandwidth or go to a web host that can handle a larger traffic base for it's clients... or shut down your web site.
Pretty much get better hosting... Though depending on your traffic the site itself could be at fault depending on how much bloat/crap you have on it. Scripting for nothing, endless pointless DIV and classes for nothing, presentational images for nothing, lack of image optimization -- they can all add up to repeatedly hitting the ceiling on anything short of switching to a dedicated server; and even then... There's many reasons I rant and rave against idiotic BS like CSS frameworks, Javascript frameworks, Javascript for nothing, images for nothing, so on and so forth -- and congratulations, you likely just hit up against one of those reasons. Really though, as others have said it's hard to say without seeing the site in question; we're stuck with educated guesses and wild assumptions -- but if you want to take it back live after a bandwidth overage, you're stuck either moving to another hosting provider or waiting out the month -- OR paying an overage charge to whatever host you are on. BUT, if you have gross inefficiencies in the code and design, moving or paying off the host is gonna be like sticking a band-aid on a gunshot wound; you're still gonna bleed out.