Okay, so this past month I keep getting emails about how I'm about to reach my bandwith limit and the site has been shut down twice because of going over, this has NEVER happend before, I never even reach 60% of my bandwith limit and have had this site for over a year.. It all started when I updated to the 1.1.14 version of SMF (don't know if it has any connection but that is when this started happening) I have checked the Awstats and it's 2 IP's that are using 1G + every day.. I have checked the IP's and they are two active members who I personally know, I have checked the IP on whois, and it is indeed the members I can tell from the location. On the awstats log it will say they logged on the day I check but then I check on the forum and it says the member has not logged on in a few days, what could be the problem.. In the most simplest terms possible, please. I have added15 extra GB AND upgraded my hosting package..!!!
If this is the wrong section please forgive me.
Have you talked to them?
you dont by any chance provide downloads do you? if so and they are large files and stored on your server this can eat up loadsa bandwidth
yupp, I have talked to both.. They don't even log on that much. They are active but not extremely active, they are on every other day but the awstats are saying they log on every single day..
@OZZIE nope, no downloads..
Maybe they have an automated RSS puller... is any specific URL getting any more hits than others?