Okay I need help my proxy Hiddenpenguin.info recently used alot of bandwidth and I need some advice. Heres the Awstats Date visits pages hits Bandwidth 24 Aug 2007 9450 51357 51750 40.55 GB 25 Aug 2007 3107 27266 27581 8.41 GB 26 Aug 2007 3797 18325 18487 16.68 GB I was surprised by these numbers because google analytics only showed 300 visits for those days, If you have ANY tips to cut down bandwidth or ways to monetize that much traffic more efficiently I am all ears. Note: I really dont think Im getting that much traffic so why would awstats say I am if in fact Im not,
I am blocking hotlinking and the problem is awstats says Im getting a huge amount of visitor but both google and adbrite say otherwise, so I cant really convert it cause it doesnt exist so my bandwidth just drops
Verify the traffic per ip with awstats, if only a few ips , or one ip, used all the bandwidth, you can block it.
Its quite a few hundred Ips each using a few MB, Is there some program that would track Bandwidth usage per IP and if that IP used too much BW for that day they get banned for 24 hours and during that period they are redirected to an explanation page. I was going to do it with adlogger but the developer closed.
Well, if in awstats, no IP as used more then another, then it would be pretty hard for any script to do what you want.
for 50Gb of bandwidth a proxy can be used to view 1 million pages instead of the few thousand pages you are serving through your proxy Someone is using your proxy to download large files (mostly movies)
thats what I figured but the problem is my domain got spread on an adult chinese forum so its not just one or two people doing it.
I have just made this small tutorial to let you know how to block/redirect visitors coming from this forum or any other bad site you want to block