Bandwith Exceeded, yikes

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Ok so I try to access my site today and it says
"Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. "

So while I'm having a little mini freak out about that (where the fuck is my catnip???) I noticed that my indexed pages in google jumped from 12 to 582 like overnight. Is there some connection between that and the bandwidth exceeding? I don't know what could be causing it, I'm sure I'm not getting a sudden unexplained flood of traffic to my site. So what's going on?
 


Can you log into cPanel and check stats?

Pretty shitty they didn't tell you, you had to find out for yourself (unless your email address is incorrect in cPanel or something), I was getting daily emails from one cheap host as it neared the limit last month.

Nice one on getting more pages indexed though!
 
How much bandwidth do you have to work with per month? Did you get dugg maybe?
 
edirectory does the hosting. I remember talking about this with them when we first started the whole process (although I don't remember the exact amount of bandwidth) They said they've never had anyone exceed their bandwidth and it shouldn't be a problem. There were no emails or any contact about this particular issue ( we have been in contact regularly about other things) and they aren't there on the weekends. fuck a duck.

I still don't understand why it would all of the sudden go down when I didn't add anything to the site recently and there would be no reason (that I can think of) that there would be a sudden amount of high traffic. (not like spacemonkey's post yesterday with getting a front page article on digg)
 
barman said:
If your site is down while google's crawling about, you could drop. upgrade your ghetto hosting.
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So you think the google is what is causing the bandwidth issue?

Is this a temporary thing, like once google is done, it will resume ?or am I now just fucked until I upgrade?
 
Oh i misread your first post. google crawling does take up some bandwidth, so if you have a lot of pages and a low quota it could be causing your problem
 
Heh. I really think it has to do with the google crawling and my shitty hosting. but yes I would love believe it's because 100K people just suddenly decided to visit my site.
 
turbolapp said:
Heh. I really think it has to do with the google crawling and my shitty hosting. but yes I would love believe it's because 100K people just suddenly decided to visit my site.
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I believe you just ran out of bandwidth. I have one reseller and I always get that message on different sites and I need to add more. The indexed pages are highly unlikely to be related to the msg you got. If you have really low bandwidth, the indexed pages could have created more traffic, but you'd have to have some shitty hosting set up.

Let us know exactly how much bandwidth you have, and I'll be able to tell you if it should have lasted.

Have any images on your site that are being linked? Some of my sites use 10mb a day, while others use over 10gb a day (more than most shared hosting gives a month). Just depends on what the site does.
 
I ran out of bandwidth on a site once due to Googlebot, but that was an Amazon affiliate site and G decided to try to index the whole of Amazon! At the time it was a nightmare, but now I'm very happy when the bots go into overdrive!
 
LazyHippy said:
I ran out of bandwidth on a site once due to Googlebot, but that was an Amazon affiliate site and G decided to try to index the whole of Amazon! At the time it was a nightmare, but now I'm very happy when the bots go into overdrive!
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Here's what I am still unclear on. If it is google then is this going to happen everytime they crawl my site? or once they index the how ever many pages, that's it unless I change something?
 
turbolapp said:
Here's what I am still unclear on. If it is google then is this going to happen everytime they crawl my site? or once they index the how ever many pages, that's it unless I change something?
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It is unlikely to be just Google causing this unless your bandwidth allocation is very small or you have hundreds of thousands of pages. If you use webmaster tools you can slow down the crawl rate in there or by adding a delay in robots.txt which might help. If it is a big site, then it really is a good thing that Gbot is indexing it all, once done the activity should die down.

If you've got cPanel have a look in awstats or webalizer - it should show what is eating up you bandwidth.
 
It is unlikely that any crawler does this to your site.
Normally, a crawler will only visit every page once per session. (Or try to, at least)
Even if some script / weird linking scheme / URL cloaking sends the crawler into a loop, it will opt out after a few rounds.

So it MIGHT have to do with an increase in visitors or someone hotlinking images to put onto digg or somesuch.

Contact your host.

::emp::
 
This might be a dumb question....

turbolapp said:
Heh. I really think it has to do with the google crawling and my shitty hosting. but yes I would love believe it's because 100K people just suddenly decided to visit my site.
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This might be a dumb question. Were you running any imbedded video on your site(s)?
 
Yes, youtube videos....? IF my providers aren't hosting the videos (because youtube is), why would that effect my bandwidth? Or am I missing something?
 
There might be a much simpler answer.

Did you make a post on your site....
and did it get dugg/stumbled?

My last stumble sent 16k uniques in 2 hours to my site
set a CPU spike on servers.

:D
 
badboyant said:
There might be a much simpler answer.

Did you make a post on your site....
and did it get dugg/stumbled?

My last stumble sent 16k uniques in 2 hours to my site
set a CPU spike on servers.

:D
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No. Again, I would LOVE it if that were the answer but I'm thinking it has something to do with my hosting. I'll know more tomorrow when they open again (:error:)
 
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