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What's going on at the cw board?

by Ken Strong
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Says "bandwidth exceeded"... hackers?
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  • Profile picture of the author elsvirtual
    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.

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  • Profile picture of the author Bruce Wedding
    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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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Lam
    Great, now everybody get back to work! whoop-cha!
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  • Profile picture of the author Bigsofty
    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...


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    • Profile picture of the author Mr. Subtle
      Originally Posted by Bigsofty View Post

      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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bigsofty
    If that's all it is he should fork out for more bandwidth


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  • Profile picture of the author Bruce Wedding
    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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