OT: Help in understanding bandwidth

Sorry for the OT post, but I know some of you are knowledgeable in this. Amhosting has (temporarily?) shut down my site for excessive bandwidth usage. I've always thought of T&R as a small site. I'm allowed 6000mb per month,or about 200mb per day. That should be enough for 200,000 page views a day according to Amhosting. If you are familiar with slottweak.com, can you tell me how I can be using so much bandwidth. I really don't understand it. What could be using it up? -- Slot Tweaks & Reviews www.slottweak.com

Hey bud, We went through the same BS when we first started PowerSims.com. We purchased bandwidth from AIT, WARNING - JUST DON'T, and they complained our site was putting 'too much pressure on our server' even though our stats did not show us anywhere NEAR the bandwidth limit for our month. They said it was all the 'hits' (25,000 per day) and not the bandwidth. Yeah... right. We got out of that contract and purchased some bandwidth from Interland. They were really good and we never had a problem with them. In fact, if I were to do anything again requiring bandwidth, I would probably contact them again. Good luck and rest assured, it sounds like Amhosting has over-subscribed the server and blaming it on your site to try and get more money via a new, more expensive subscription. Scott PA-Scott

Give me 10 mins to look at your site, and at amhosting in general, This *is* something I am qualified for (I Run tech support at a web hosting co in UK). BTW, Thanks 4 helping me (and others) with my Guillemot Ferrari FF Wheel ;) Alan. GTX_SlotCar wrote:

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> > Sorry for the OT post, but I know some of you are knowledgeable in this. > Amhosting has (temporarily?) shut down my site for excessive bandwidth > usage. I've always thought of T&R as a small site. I'm allowed 6000mb per > month,or about 200mb per day. That should be enough for 200,000 page views a > day according to Amhosting. If you are familiar with slottweak.com, can you > tell me how I can be using so much bandwidth. I really don't understand it. > What could be using it up? > > -- > Slot > > Tweaks & Reviews > www.slottweak.com

Took a look at a cached copy of your site, (good old inktomi :)) No way you could use up that b/width with that no of visitors. Check that your webspace hasn't been 'compromised', look for large/unrecognised files in your webspace or web logs (if provided) Unfortunatly what Scott said seems to be the likely cause, If you have copies of your webstats then see about 'breach of contract' or something similar. Find out what your bandwidth avg is for me and I may be able to offer you a temp home till you get it sorted quick (and dirty) bandwidth usage calc: (Size of images * avg number of pages viewed per visitor) * visitors/month * 115% Alan. Alan wrote:

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> > Give me 10 mins to look at your site, and at amhosting in general, This > *is* something I am qualified for (I Run tech support at a web hosting > co in UK). > > BTW, Thanks 4 helping me (and others) with my Guillemot Ferrari FF Wheel > ;) > > Alan. > > GTX_SlotCar wrote: > > > > Sorry for the OT post, but I know some of you are knowledgeable in this. > > Amhosting has (temporarily?) shut down my site for excessive bandwidth > > usage. I've always thought of T&R as a small site. I'm allowed 6000mb per > > month,or about 200mb per day. That should be enough for 200,000 page views a > > day according to Amhosting. If you are familiar with slottweak.com, can you > > tell me how I can be using so much bandwidth. I really don't understand it. > > What could be using it up? > > > > -- > > Slot > > > > Tweaks & Reviews > > www.slottweak.com

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:41:16 -0400, "GTX_SlotCar" <[email hidden]> wrote: >What could be using it up? How about removing those big .jpeg-files on your front page and replacing them with proper thumbnails?

Alan, I can get back to you with the stats later. Basically, amhosting took me off line without warning. Their policy states that there will be a warning first. They just shut me down. We figured out that it was the GP3 directory with large images and high traffic that was causing the problem. So, they deleted the whole directory which included other pics, including ones used on my home page. The GP3 page got a lot of hits because of a post in the HighGear forum. The thing is, in a couple days the post would be buried and forgotten anyway. I'm at work now and could have placed the pics elsewhere (different url) if I had the chance to save them here first. I have a wedding rehearsal tonight, wedding to attend tomorrow and busy Friday. So unless I stay up late, which I probably will, I won't have a chance to update things. Had they warned me yesterday, I would have taken care of everything right away. I don't think that shutting me down was called for. They said "after you ignored repeated warnings...." Well, I never got any warnings (which they now admit). Plus, I have 2 site with them. The other one, gilberthomesinc.com, hardly gets any hits at all. I don't think I was treated fairly. -- Slot Tweaks & Reviews www.slottweak.com "Alan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Took a look at a cached copy of your site, (good old inktomi :)) > No way you could use up that b/width with that no of visitors. > > Check that your webspace hasn't been 'compromised', look for > large/unrecognised files in your webspace or web logs (if provided) > > Unfortunatly what Scott said seems to be the likely cause, If you have > copies of your webstats then see about 'breach of contract' or something > similar. > > Find out what your bandwidth avg is for me and I may be able to offer > you a temp home till you get it sorted > > quick (and dirty) bandwidth usage calc: > > (Size of images * avg number of pages viewed per visitor) * > visitors/month * 115% > > Alan. > > > Alan wrote: > > > > Give me 10 mins to look at your site, and at amhosting in general, This > > *is* something I am qualified for (I Run tech support at a web hosting > > co in UK). > > > > BTW, Thanks 4 helping me (and others) with my Guillemot Ferrari FF Wheel > > ;) > > > > Alan. > > > > GTX_SlotCar wrote: > > > > > > Sorry for the OT post, but I know some of you are knowledgeable in this. > > > Amhosting has (temporarily?) shut down my site for excessive bandwidth > > > usage. I've always thought of T&R as a small site. I'm allowed 6000mb per > > > month,or about 200mb per day. That should be enough for 200,000 page views a > > > day according to Amhosting. If you are familiar with slottweak.com, can you > > > tell me how I can be using so much bandwidth. I really don't understand it. > > > What could be using it up? > > > > > > -- > > > Slot > > > > > > Tweaks & Reviews > > > www.slottweak.com

Toni, I don't know much about web publishing. I admit it, and don't have time to start learning all there is about it. So, could you explain to me what you mean? How to do it? -- Slot (who don't know shit about webs but can tweak a wheel) Tweaks & Reviews www.slottweak.com "Toni Lassila" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:41:16 -0400, "GTX_SlotCar" <[email hidden]> wrote: > >What could be using it up? > > How about removing those big .jpeg-files on your front page and replacing them > with proper thumbnails?

Unfortunatly 'shoot first - questions later' has become very much standard practise in the hosting business, not without reason in *some* cases (many of the hosting co's providers have bandwidth overage charges that would frankly scare some ppl, 150-300 GBP per Gb/Month is not uncommon here in UK!) Not that this is acceptable though. One of my staff specialises in 'bandwidth reduction' for graphics (manually done, not optimising s/ware), EMail me a copy of all your graphics from your site and I'll get him to do his stuff on them, should only take a couple of days, It can make a big difference (50-75% reduction in size not uncommon, no loss in quality). Alan. GTX_SlotCar wrote:

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> > Alan, I can get back to you with the stats later. Basically, amhosting took > me off line without warning. Their policy states that there will be a > warning first. They just shut me down. We figured out that it was the GP3 > directory with large images and high traffic that was causing the problem. > So, they deleted the whole directory which included other pics, including > ones used on my home page. The GP3 page got a lot of hits because of a post > in the HighGear forum. The thing is, in a couple days the post would be > buried and forgotten anyway. I'm at work now and could have placed the pics > elsewhere (different url) if I had the chance to save them here first. I > have a wedding rehearsal tonight, wedding to attend tomorrow and busy > Friday. So unless I stay up late, which I probably will, I won't have a > chance to update things. Had they warned me yesterday, I would have taken > care of everything right away. I don't think that shutting me down was > called for. They said "after you ignored repeated warnings...." Well, I > never got any warnings (which they now admit). Plus, I have 2 site with > them. The other one, gilberthomesinc.com, hardly gets any hits at all. I > don't think I was treated fairly. > > -- > Slot > > Tweaks & Reviews > www.slottweak.com > > "Alan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Took a look at a cached copy of your site, (good old inktomi :)) > > No way you could use up that b/width with that no of visitors. > > > > Check that your webspace hasn't been 'compromised', look for > > large/unrecognised files in your webspace or web logs (if provided) > > > > Unfortunatly what Scott said seems to be the likely cause, If you have > > copies of your webstats then see about 'breach of contract' or something > > similar. > > > > Find out what your bandwidth avg is for me and I may be able to offer > > you a temp home till you get it sorted > > > > quick (and dirty) bandwidth usage calc: > > > > (Size of images * avg number of pages viewed per visitor) * > > visitors/month * 115% > > > > Alan. > > > > > > Alan wrote: > > > > > > Give me 10 mins to look at your site, and at amhosting in general, This > > > *is* something I am qualified for (I Run tech support at a web hosting > > > co in UK). > > > > > > BTW, Thanks 4 helping me (and others) with my Guillemot Ferrari FF Wheel > > > ;) > > > > > > Alan. > > > > > > GTX_SlotCar wrote: > > > > > > > > Sorry for the OT post, but I know some of you are knowledgeable in > this. > > > > Amhosting has (temporarily?) shut down my site for excessive bandwidth > > > > usage. I've always thought of T&R as a small site. I'm allowed 6000mb > per > > > > month,or about 200mb per day. That should be enough for 200,000 page > views a > > > > day according to Amhosting. If you are familiar with slottweak.com, > can you > > > > tell me how I can be using so much bandwidth. I really don't > understand it. > > > > What could be using it up? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Slot > > > > > > > > Tweaks & Reviews > > > > www.slottweak.com

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:52:21 -0400, "GTX_SlotCar" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Toni, I don't know much about web publishing. I admit it, and don't have >time to start learning all there is about it. So, could you explain to me >what you mean? How to do it? Well, it's just that those pics of wheels you have on the front page are actually shrunk down from larger size. This is wasteful and it's better to create smaller copies of the pictures for using as thumbnails to link to the actual, bigger pictures.