Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:01 am Post subject: Webhost company trying to eat my bandwidth?
I don't know if this is the right category, but it involves webhosting.
My site was launched in september, and it has about 10 visitort per day. Till yesturday my bandwidth counter registred about 4 MB. This morning I did the usual check and was surprised to see that suddently it went up to 14.5MB, in less than a day. First, I thought it was a suddent rize in website visitors. However, when I check, only 4 visitors But still a huge number of pages viewed and hits(about 1100 each). I took a closer inspection and discovered that the whole 9.5MB went to this host: svr41.ehostpros.com.
It appears to be a hosting company.
It hasn't done any harm, I still have plenty bandwidth, but I don't think it's great to loose 10 MB for no real visitor. What was this host trying to do? to make my site crash down in order for me to move to their company? Very strange...
I banned that host in order to prevent further loss of bandwidth.
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject:
I had a similar situation with another company once. I emailed the company asking what they were doing. They wrote back and said "Sorry," without any explanation, and the weird "visits" stopped. _________________ Allan Gardyne
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I don't think they were using my pictures, because I remember that a week or two ago I had explicitly set an option in the control pannel to prevent direct linking to any of the pictures on my site.
I use Awstats to analyze my logs. I can't track every visitor to see wich pages or files they were using, but I can see statistics for all the pages of the site(number of views, number of hits, bandwidth, and the time they were las accessed. I was surprised to see the all the pages that were "interlinked" linked to others were viewed 40-50 times. Yet, awstats didn't record these visitors as unique visitors. They might be robots. Also, google didn't record any impressions from these robots.
I'll have a look in my control pannel to see for other security options.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:01 pm Post subject: You're wise to keep an eye on the bandwidth
... plenty of people don't know how much information there is in the hosting control panels
I would make a further suggestion to you, just in case it applies to your situation. It might be worth your while checking through the files and directories on your site in case someone has found a security chink in the armoury protecting your domain and has installed a malicious script which is using your bandwidth ..... not quite sure how it's done, but I do know that it can be done.
Hope that this isn't the case, but better safe than sorry.
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But still a huge number of pages viewed and hits(about 1100 each). I took a closer inspection and discovered that the whole 9.5MB went to this host: svr41.ehostpros.com.
