Unsolved A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded
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A few weeks ago I threw up a real small two page site on A Small Orange. I went with the tiny package since the site has two pages with no images and very few visitors. Within a few weeks I hit the 4GB data transfer limit. Has anyone else run in to this? I don't think it's fair or accurate.
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4GB of data allowance isn't much, how large (in MB) is the website?
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We use ASO and the transfer remains very low, even for busy sites. This suggests that maybe your site has been hacked and is being used as a host for something, or that maybe you are being used as an image host.
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I'd look through the files hosted on ASO and see if there is something that you didn't intend to put there.
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I looked through the directories and can't find any extra files there. I didn't even upload any images for my site. My usage stats are below. It looks like 10% of my hits were people trying to hack my site.
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That's a lot of hits. Did you maybe forget to configure CloudFlare or equivalent?
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@scottalanmiller said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:
That's a lot of hits. Did you maybe forget to configure CloudFlare or equivalent?
What is that?
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@Mike-Davis said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:
@scottalanmiller said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:
That's a lot of hits. Did you maybe forget to configure CloudFlare or equivalent?
What is that?
Content Delivery System that you put in front of a website so that things like static files get delivered quickly by the CDN instead of having to have your own servers provide it each time.
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That still wouldn't explain why
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@dafyre said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:
That still wouldn't explain why
he'shis server has been hammered so hard.True, there is something about that site making a quarter million people want to access it, that's a lot of hits. But it would easily cut the load on the server transfer by 60-80% right off of the bat which would fix the issue temporary. And CloudFlare is an important part of the security mechanism here to make it more difficult to assault the server since its IP address is not known to the attackers.
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It might be something simple, like the name of the site seems like something that lots of people want to see and it got linked somewhere. At those numbers, it's time to host ads and pay for the hosting that way.
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Google Analytics or, simpler, CloudFlare analytics would point to what is going on if we had those.
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Is that something I need to do with two pages of text and no images? How would I do that?
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@Mike-Davis said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:
Is that something I need to do with two pages of text and no images? How would I do that?
Well, it would have protected you here. Or at least to some degree. It's like never having your DNS hosted by your registrar or never letting your DNS host also host your web page, it's just a basic best practice. Do you have to do it? No. But I follow the standard pattern of good practice for every site, every time, regardless of size. It's a bit like virtualization. Do you always need it? No. Is it possible to know ahead of time when you won't have needed it? No. So you always do it.
You move your DNS to CloudFlare, which is one of the best DNS hosts anyway, so that is good even if you don't use the CDN. Then once your DNS is set up you just click the cloud button on the A record for your site and it turns orange and poof, you are done.
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So by having DNS on CloudFlare I would get better analytics than what a small orange provides?
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@Mike-Davis said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:
So by having DNS on CloudFlare I would get better analytics than what a small orange provides?
I didn't even know that ASO provided any.
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@scottalanmiller said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:
I didn't even know that ASO provided any.
They also have the awstats plug in that has other reports I can run, but I don't really know what I'm looking for.
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@Mike-Davis said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:
@scottalanmiller said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:
I didn't even know that ASO provided any.
They also have the awstats plug in that has other reports I can run, but I don't really know what I'm looking for.
Looking for WHO is requesting all of those pages.
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Here is a list by IP. If I had to take a guess, I'd say the top IP was reloading the WP-admin page over and over trying to hack the site. What can I do about it?
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Half a GB of wp-admin seems unlikely, but theoretically possible.
