URGENT - bandwidth usage

URGENT - bandwidth usage

Posted by: omlette
Posted on: 2005-10-01 06:48:00

I sent this in to support but I really need this to be taken care of ASAP.

Re: URGENT - bandwidth usage

Posted by: jcisio
Posted on: 2005-10-01 09:15:00

First, rename all your top-level folder. Since then, you've only ftp (if any) and email bandwidth. One thing I don't understand: you have your bw report last night, how can you know your bw is rising (next report is tonight)?

Maybe late, but some suggestion to prevent from this situation:
- throttle at about 80%
- don't put too big file into your site

Re: URGENT - bandwidth usage

Posted by: omlette
Posted on: 2005-10-01 10:46:00

As of last night, I moved the entire domain folder into a new folder called "disabled" and have had it throttled. The current bandwidth reading was at 158gb at that point, and the site was throttled (kicks in at 135).

Today, I decided to redirect the entire domain to the donation page, instead of using a .throttled page which might take up some more bandwidth, no matter how small. I'm hoping that the next bandwidth reading hardly moves, considering email and ftp traffic at this point should be next to nothing.

My primary concern is to be sure that the bandwidth usage won't rise, and I've done everything I know so far to prevent that. A $30 bill is payable. A $500 one is not.

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Re: URGENT - bandwidth usage

Posted by: dtobias
Posted on: 2005-10-01 11:46:00

You can change the status of your domain hosting to "parked" (which causes it to show a generic Dreamhost parking page) or "redirected" (which lets you redirect it to any URL you want, including one in somebody else's site); this should reduce your ongoing bandwidth usage to a bare minimum.

-- Dan

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