What's going on at the cw board?

Ken Strong · 04-29-2009, 07:44 PM

Says "bandwidth exceeded"... hackers?

elsvirtual · 04-29-2009, 07:53 PM

Well, I know that most hosting companies allow a certain amount of bandwidth per account. Normally, the account you sign up for allows more than the necessary amount of bandwidth. Every time someone enters a website, they take up some bandwidth. So if there's suddenly a whole bunch of hits, that sudden increase in traffic will knock down a site because the bandwidth has been exceeded

You know what I think? I think "she who will not be named" actually did flood the board with a ton of hits.

I think it might cost to increase the bandwidth to get the site up again.

Time will tell.

Evy

Bruce Wedding · 04-29-2009, 08:37 PM

Everything's fine, just waiting on them to up my limit. I was on the phone with the owner (who 2 months ago promised me I'd never run out) and its in a batch job to be processed.

We've been bumping the bandwidth limit every month for the past 4-5 months. You'll notice it's near the end of this month and we just missed staying under 3Gb.

I blame Leah. Now I'm really going to ban her LOL!

Check back in an hour or so.

Ken Strong · 04-29-2009, 08:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bruce Wedding

I blame Leah. Now I'm really going to ban her LOL!

Send her the bill, since she's going to take credit anyway.

MikeHumphreys · 04-29-2009, 09:14 PM

Bruce, if they continue to jerk you around then you may want to switch hosting companies.

I went with LiquidWeb about 2 months ago and they have been awesome. Longest wait for a tech support ticket to date is 15 minutes. I have had zero down-time with my sites. They even moved & setup 15 sites of mine from the old hosting company to theirs for free and some of them were membership style sites.

Check webhostingtalk.com for any current coupon offers. I found one that let me lock-in lifetime price of $50/month (usually $60/month) for a VPS with double the normal memory and storage with LiquidWeb.

Good luck,

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Kyle Tully · 04-29-2009, 09:38 PM

I thought maybe one of Subtle's cartoons went viral and just crushed the servers.

Either that or Bruce is doing a product launch

MikeHumphreys · 04-29-2009, 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kyle Tully

Either that or Bruce is doing a product launch

Nah... we would have gotten one of those "our product is hot that we just melted the server with eager buyers" emails then.

Dean Dhuli · 04-29-2009, 11:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bruce Wedding

Everything's fine, just waiting on them to up my limit. I was on the phone with the owner (who 2 months ago promised me I'd never run out) and its in a batch job to be processed.

We've been bumping the bandwidth limit every month for the past 4-5 months. You'll notice it's near the end of this month and we just missed staying under 3Gb.

I blame Leah. Now I'm really going to ban her LOL!

Check back in an hour or so.

Maybe you should just switch to Hostgator.

Bruce Wedding · 04-30-2009, 12:52 AM

Ok, we're back. No thanks to my site. The problem was, I needed to get into WHM to increase my bandwidth but with it locked out, I couldn't get in.

I finally remembered to go through the backdoor using the IP address, username and specific port.

Anyhoo, we're golden.

Kevin Lam · 04-30-2009, 01:04 AM

Great, now everybody get back to work! whoop-cha!

AlanCarr · 04-30-2009, 04:28 PM

Bruce, seriously ol' bean, check the site.

A simple forum shouldn't be guzzling bandwidth like that.

I had the same problem with one of my sites, first I paid a bit extra for more bandwidth. The next month paid a bit more. Thought everything was OK.

Boink! "Bandwidth exceeded" again.

It turned out my forum software had been hacked and was spewing out millions of spam emails. When I upgraded to 5GB and got an email saying "domain.com is approaching 80% of bandwidth limit" I searched through the raw log files.

You're using the latest version of SMF and I couldn't see any patches available. I'd still suggest checking your logs, see just where the bandwidth is going anyway.

Forums can really guzzle BW but it's a fairly plain one. I've known forums with 100,000 members that used less than 20GB a month, so 3GB for yours is plenty possible - but my left eyebrow is twitching...

Alan (B.)

Mr. Subtle · 04-30-2009, 07:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bigsofty

A simple forum shouldn't be guzzling bandwidth like that.

I've known forums with 100,000 members that used less than 20GB a month, so 3GB for yours is plenty possible - but my left eyebrow is twitching...

Blame me... it's because of all the dayem graphics I keep putting up.

AlanCarr · 05-01-2009, 10:12 AM

If that's all it is he should fork out for more bandwidth

B.

Bruce Wedding · 05-01-2009, 12:20 PM

I've looked over everything. Nothing is really out of line. I see that I can save a ton by compressing my banner image. It's a png that is 175k and accounts for 8% of my total bandwidth. I'll make it a jpg and get it down to about 50k.

There aren't any mass emails or anything going out. 80% of the bandwidth is accounted for in the pages and images served.

I could also move my banner offsite to my Amazon S3 site but that's about all I can move.

The bandwidth increase has been steady with the increase in members. There wasn't ever a big jump like something fishy was going on.

04-29-2009, 07:44 PM	#1
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04-29-2009, 08:37 PM	#3
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04-29-2009, 09:14 PM	#5
MikeHumphreys Copywriter and Marketer War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Philly Suburbs, USA Posts: 2,785 Thanks: 787 Thanked 696 Times in 373 Posts Social Networking	Re: What's going on at the cw board? Bruce, if they continue to jerk you around then you may want to switch hosting companies. I went with LiquidWeb about 2 months ago and they have been awesome. Longest wait for a tech support ticket to date is 15 minutes. I have had zero down-time with my sites. They even moved & setup 15 sites of mine from the old hosting company to theirs for free and some of them were membership style sites. Check webhostingtalk.com for any current coupon offers. I found one that let me lock-in lifetime price of $50/month (usually $60/month) for a VPS with double the normal memory and storage with LiquidWeb. Good luck, Mike
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04-29-2009, 09:38 PM	#6
Kyle Tully ConsultingTycoon.com War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Vaucluse, Australia. Posts: 2,343 Thanks: 98 Thanked 268 Times in 128 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: What's going on at the cw board? I thought maybe one of Subtle's cartoons went viral and just crushed the servers. Either that or Bruce is doing a product launch
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04-30-2009, 12:52 AM	#9
Bruce Wedding The Reality Check War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Cancun, Quintana Roo, MX Posts: 3,545 Thanks: 266 Thanked 464 Times in 215 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: What's going on at the cw board? Ok, we're back. No thanks to my site. The problem was, I needed to get into WHM to increase my bandwidth but with it locked out, I couldn't get in. I finally remembered to go through the backdoor using the IP address, username and specific port. Anyhoo, we're golden.
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04-30-2009, 01:04 AM	#10
Kevin Lam Dare To Dream War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 986 Blog Entries: 2 Thanks: 179 Thanked 229 Times in 154 Posts	Re: What's going on at the cw board? Great, now everybody get back to work! whoop-cha!

04-30-2009, 04:28 PM	#11
AlanCarr Ace Copywriter War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Tropical Island... Posts: 380 Thanks: 35 Thanked 48 Times in 36 Posts Contact Info	Re: What's going on at the cw board? Bruce, seriously ol' bean, check the site. A simple forum shouldn't be guzzling bandwidth like that. I had the same problem with one of my sites, first I paid a bit extra for more bandwidth. The next month paid a bit more. Thought everything was OK. Boink! "Bandwidth exceeded" again. It turned out my forum software had been hacked and was spewing out millions of spam emails. When I upgraded to 5GB and got an email saying "domain.com is approaching 80% of bandwidth limit" I searched through the raw log files. You're using the latest version of SMF and I couldn't see any patches available. I'd still suggest checking your logs, see just where the bandwidth is going anyway. Forums can really guzzle BW but it's a fairly plain one. I've known forums with 100,000 members that used less than 20GB a month, so 3GB for yours is plenty possible - but my left eyebrow is twitching... Alan (B.)

05-01-2009, 10:12 AM	#13
AlanCarr Ace Copywriter War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Tropical Island... Posts: 380 Thanks: 35 Thanked 48 Times in 36 Posts Contact Info	Re: What's going on at the cw board? If that's all it is he should fork out for more bandwidth B.

05-01-2009, 12:20 PM	#14
Bruce Wedding The Reality Check War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Cancun, Quintana Roo, MX Posts: 3,545 Thanks: 266 Thanked 464 Times in 215 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: What's going on at the cw board? I've looked over everything. Nothing is really out of line. I see that I can save a ton by compressing my banner image. It's a png that is 175k and accounts for 8% of my total bandwidth. I'll make it a jpg and get it down to about 50k. There aren't any mass emails or anything going out. 80% of the bandwidth is accounted for in the pages and images served. I could also move my banner offsite to my Amazon S3 site but that's about all I can move. The bandwidth increase has been steady with the increase in members. There wasn't ever a big jump like something fishy was going on.
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