Bandwidth problem on phpwcms site

spirelli · Post by **spirelli** » Tue 1. May 2007, 09:13

Hi, our phpwcms site has had an unusually high amount of http traffic the past month (20 GB). That never happened before. IT's a smallish site with a couple of hundred visitors a month. The statistics show no increase in visitors or page loads.

I want to be sure that the same does not happen in May, otherwise the site may stop working if we reach the limit.

What could be the cause, and what would be the first steps to take?

Many thanks!

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Tue 1. May 2007, 11:13

hard to say. Can you trace which user/IP is responsible for that higher bandwidth...

Maybe you have some video or larger PDF documents on site.

Oliver

spirelli · Post by **spirelli** » Tue 1. May 2007, 16:22

There are no larger documents.

And I wouldn't know how to trace which user is using high bandwidth.
There is nothing on the site that would make anyone reload again and again.
But even as I said, there is not that much activity in general

The site is:
http://www.****.net/

And there are the stats:
http://www.****.net/twatch/

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Tue 1. May 2007, 17:23

Hm, this is nearly impossible based on page views. I really don't know what your provider counts. Maybe there is another problem with that system.

Provider also counts incoming traffic. The stats of TraceWatch are not the correct base for finding HTTP traffic and where it is coming from...

You need web server stats.

Oliver

spirelli · Post by **spirelli** » Wed 2. May 2007, 00:04

Many thanks for your thoughts. That helps. I'll check with the provider.