Bandwidth limit exceeded.

[emuler]

As we all know the forum was down for several days at the end of the last month because our allotted bandwidth was used up.

I hereby solemnly swear not to visit the forum more than three times a day from now on.

[ghost]

We reached the bandwidth limit of 5 GB/month and i don't know why, because it never happened before and there were no changes.

Unfortunatly i couldn't be online for 1 week and therefore wasn't able to fix it

[Hell]

We reached the bandwith limit of 5 GB/month

Without hosting a single picture...? That's almost impossible! Maybe we've been "dugg"!

Most likely someone posted this adress to some kind of board or a bot tried to spam our forum...

[mongodisco]

can it be that our banners at top swallows the bandwidth?

[billanben]

Well it kills my RAM allocation so if that's anything to go by. Maybe preferable to have NOT looping my default ? Can select play/loop if you want to do so ? Worth a try ?

[ghost]

No. The banners can't take so much bandwidth.

I am still searching for the reason

[emuler]

Does the server provide bandwidth usage logs? Preferably in graphical form. Might help you track down the problem if you know exactly when it occurred.

[ghost]

Damn! That's all i can see:

[Image]

[billanben]

Have to say that looks like a natural increase to me from following reasons :-

1. Increase in members posting (not sure since we lost Terry if that can be true).

2. Increase in amount of graphics included in each post - this would be my guess and the two answers I can think of are :-

Don't embed the graphics - provide links.

Increase the amount of bandwidth allowed to maybe 10GB to allow for growth (we may well have to stump up for this option).

I would be 95% confident that we have not been hit by DDOS or any other bandwidth attack.

[Debaser]

and only post hot films, rather than any old film with kids in