Hello! I own this site http://ihatetorrents.com/forums recently I got alot of visitors. But there is one thing that bothers me. I used 5 gigabytes of bandwidth on 1 day. Unique visitors:2739 Pageviews:19628 Hits:186736 Bandwidth:5.10 GB Its a plain forum. No large images or files hosted. Is this normal??
That does seem rather a lot. Do you allow attachments? Does your stats package tell you which files are the source of the bandwidth consumption? If not, configure it so that it does or switch to use one that does
Hey. I do allow attachments, but no attachment has been posted. Its only 70 threads or so and i have complete control over whats being posted. My intergrated stats on the control panel doesnt display what files that consume most bw. I checked my FTP too for any large files and cant find any. All on KB none on Megabyte. this is todays stats and still counting Unique 2076 pageviews 11643 hits 136668 bw 3.67 GB i am afraid my webhost gonna suspend me.
considering you have illgeal files on your site and divix movies i wouldnt be surprised you are using alot off bandwidth
I dont host 1 SINGLE FILE over 250 kb. I dont host any video files at all. Please dont discuss the content but the issue.
I have had a similar issue before, an IP kept attacking although I had no active users. I left a forum open and this IP was bothering my webhost and I kept getting bandwidth warning messages. Ask your host to investigate.