Hi all,
I'm currently hosted at Tera-Byte (plan #4). It's a good compagny, cheap, and they have good support.
But:
I've a small-medium site (about 4000 pageviews in total each day) and I use about 120-150 megabytes of bandwidth / day.
When I checked my bandwidth in the beginning of the month, I had already used more than 4 gigabytes, while I normally use +-5 gigabytes / month. I went to the support-chatroom to ask more info about it since I didn't have more pageviews/day than the previous months. I was told that it was probably caused by the Code Red Worm. They adviced me to check the stats daily and so I did.
It seemed to be under control, I used my normal 120-150 meg / day. Because I thought it was under control I didn't check my bandwidth usage the 20th of August. When I checked it the 21st, I couldn't believe my eyes: between August 19 and August 21, I would have used 7 gigabytes!
I checked my siteadmin, and according to those stats, I'd used 1.5 gigabytes in 2 weeks. I checked my visitors-stats and I didn't have more visitors/pageviews than normal.
I've called to their support, i've written several mails in order to find the reason of that excessive bandwidth usage, but I didn't get a reply with the answer in it.
I had to check the web.log but that was only the log from yesterday till now. I was told that "Cobalt offers daily logs only". But I want to know how / what used all that bandwidth.
You can probably understand that I don't want to pay for something I didn't (in my opinion, as I don't have any proof of it, no logs, ... whatsoever) use.
My site is a site about a PCgame, we don't have any downloads on the Tera-Byte server, nor large images. The site has a total size of about 25 megabyte. I've discussed this with other webmasters (who have similar sites like mine and who run large gaming networks) and they all agree that it is impossible that our site would have used 7 GB in 2 days.
I hope some of you know:
- what could have caused this excessive bandwidth-usage
- how I can find it out
- what I should do against it.
Kindest regards and thanks in advantage,
Dieter Van Hassel
I'm currently hosted at Tera-Byte (plan #4). It's a good compagny, cheap, and they have good support.
But:
I've a small-medium site (about 4000 pageviews in total each day) and I use about 120-150 megabytes of bandwidth / day.
When I checked my bandwidth in the beginning of the month, I had already used more than 4 gigabytes, while I normally use +-5 gigabytes / month. I went to the support-chatroom to ask more info about it since I didn't have more pageviews/day than the previous months. I was told that it was probably caused by the Code Red Worm. They adviced me to check the stats daily and so I did.
It seemed to be under control, I used my normal 120-150 meg / day. Because I thought it was under control I didn't check my bandwidth usage the 20th of August. When I checked it the 21st, I couldn't believe my eyes: between August 19 and August 21, I would have used 7 gigabytes!
I checked my siteadmin, and according to those stats, I'd used 1.5 gigabytes in 2 weeks. I checked my visitors-stats and I didn't have more visitors/pageviews than normal.
I've called to their support, i've written several mails in order to find the reason of that excessive bandwidth usage, but I didn't get a reply with the answer in it.
I had to check the web.log but that was only the log from yesterday till now. I was told that "Cobalt offers daily logs only". But I want to know how / what used all that bandwidth.
You can probably understand that I don't want to pay for something I didn't (in my opinion, as I don't have any proof of it, no logs, ... whatsoever) use.
My site is a site about a PCgame, we don't have any downloads on the Tera-Byte server, nor large images. The site has a total size of about 25 megabyte. I've discussed this with other webmasters (who have similar sites like mine and who run large gaming networks) and they all agree that it is impossible that our site would have used 7 GB in 2 days.
I hope some of you know:
- what could have caused this excessive bandwidth-usage
- how I can find it out
- what I should do against it.
Kindest regards and thanks in advantage,
Dieter Van Hassel
