Excessive Traffic

[Dismounted]

Originally Posted by eddied316

My host gives me 3TB of bandwidth, and 300GB of space. And its pretty cheap.

One thing to be careful of is over-inflated plan specifications, i.e. overselling.

[R.o.o.t]

Chang you company and you host plan ..
GOOD LUCK

[Angel-Wings]

Do you checked your access log with an analyzer like Webanalyzer what is causing the most traffic ?
Also, do you send a lot of mails, big attachments that are loaded often - all this may be a problem, each one maybe just small, just count them together.
Maybe doing this before switching the host

[markhendo1986]

Thanks for all the responses thus far, people. Much appreciated.

I am now looking to switch hosts once again, but ensuring this time that a prospective host could handle traffic of around the amount that we experienced last month (which was 140,367 MB).

Could any of you offer any sound advice on this matter? I am reluctant to make the same mistake as before, moving to a new host only to be charged excessively anyway!

[Carnage]

That traffic seems rather excessive... how many active/online users do you have at once?

You might try a step up from shared hosting maybe a VPS or entry level dedicated. They usually come with more than enough bandwidth to cover your 140GB a month.

[Wonksta]

Looks like a very active forum you have just a tad over 2,000 members with over 40,000 posts. this indicates that your members are rather active. I have an extremely active forum only 4 months old but we've just hit 104X members approaching 40,000 posts. We are doing 2.6Gigs per day (on a good day) with an average of 1.9Gig per day!

So it is very normal because if you look at it from a page views perspective we are getting like 50,000 page views each month and climbing (that is a lot of data being fetched from the server!)

Congratulations on a successful and I assume active forum from what you've stated.

[deadlySniper]

Check through your databases, someone might of hacked your Server, and they could be using your host, under your name. But without you knowing.