Bandwidth Problem

[Rapdis]

My forum only has 350 members, but using 12 gig of bandwidth a month, i have a stong feeling people are linking images from our server, please help, is there a hack to stop this? :(

[g-force2k2]

i used to have a small forum that was closing in on 20 gigs a month :p could be stealing bandwidth... or could just be a lot of images loading or queries running(but im not sure if that wastes bandwidth) regards... as for a solution you should be able to check your site logs in the control panel no?

g-force2k2

[Logician]

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41015&highlight=.htaccess

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?s=&postid=271487

[Rapdis]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&postid=296329#post296329" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...329#post296329</a>

[Rapdis]

i dont have mod_rewrite installed... anything else?

I need a hack that changes the images folder name regular and reflects that change on the entire forum, that way, all other site image links to my site will be broken.

[NTLDR]

If you have set all the image paths properly ie using { imagesfolder} without the space then just change this replacement when you feel like it to reflect the true path.

[Rapdis]

check this out, i think this is what is stealing my bandwidth!!!

http://www.rapdis.com/forum/online.php?s=

diff guests viewing the one forum, they must be re-freshing!!

SOMEONE... I NEED HELP!

[Rapdis]

Originally posted by NTLDR
If you have set all the image paths properly ie using { imagesfolder} without the space then just change this replacement when you feel like it to reflect the true path.

This doesnt work because i didn't use the php tag...

what can i do now?

[2 X Viverridae]

Holy crap! You have showthread pages that run over 130 Kb each! I don't think anyone is stealing your bandwidth. Do you have GZip enabled?

[Rapdis]

no... whats that? and why is my showthread pages so much? i never done nothing...

[Rapdis]

how can i take the No-cache headers out of all templates and will this effect the forum?

[Rapdis]

i found gzip... what level shud i use?

[2 X Viverridae]

Just use level 1 - any more doesn't offer much extra compression for the greater server load it uses.

The large animated avatars and sig's, as well as the banner, makes a big dent on your bandwidth usage.

I wouldn't suggest turning off no-cache headers, as then folks would have to manually hard refresh (CTRL-F5) to get the latest posts in a thread.

EDIT: To remove no-cache headers, there is an option in the admin panel, under vBulletin Options, to turn them on and off - but once again, I would recommend NOT doing that.

[Rapdis]

so all i do is switch gzip on

i cant believe if its so useful, why vb have defaulted it to yes

i neva knew what it was...

let hope this works

[Rapdis]

Originally posted by Rapdis
check this out, i think this is what is stealing my bandwidth!!!

http://www.rapdis.com/forum/online.php?s=

diff guests viewing the one forum, they must be re-freshing!!

SOMEONE... I NEED HELP!

any idea why this has happend?

so many guests on one forum for 4 days?

[2 X Viverridae]

Someone is remote linking to the attachement "9.jpg" on post http://www.rapdis.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=25000#post25000

Note it has been downloaded some 2200 times in the last couple of days.

Check out Stop Users from Cross-linking Attachments (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35399) by Guru for a solution to that.

In the meantime, delete that attachment!

BTW - Thanks to GZip your showthreads are now about 40% smaller than they were previously.

[Rapdis]

2 X Viverridae

Out of all the people on this forum, u helped out, i appreciate that mate... cheers

[Rapdis]

ok... i deleted the whole thread, however, if you look at...

http://www.rapdis.com/forum/online.php?s=

there are a large number of guests viewing something...

i added the "Stop Users from Cross-linking Attachments" by Guru hack but i got problems with that, i have posted there...