Bandwidth restriction

[Sara]

So I had an email about being about to reached 80% of my bandwidth limit.

Obviously someone "discovered" my site and what I offer. Yes I traced them down and know where they're coming from.

I am freaking out here a bit because I've never ever been this close to my limits and I'm not sure if this big increase in bandwidth is a permanent thing or something which is happening just this month.

I was wondering is there a way I can put download/bandwidth limits in place and keep the site from going offline.

I know I've been to sites where one could only download so many files at a time.

I am on the old Gigadeal x5 and I'm not sure upgrading the plan is in the budget at the moment. Would have to negotiate with my paymaster about that.

[Santo]

Hi Sara,

There are out there in the web some download scripts that limit the amount of downloads a member or ip can do. I used one once (can't remember now the name but if you want i can search) on my band site, cause ppl were downloading like crazys and the bandwith was expensive at that time.

Probably a search in google can find you some php free script to do that.

Cheers,

Carlos Santos

So I had an email about being about to reached 80% of my bandwidth limit.

Obviously someone "discovered" my site and what I offer. Yes I traced them down and know where they're coming from.

I am freaking out here a bit because I've never ever been this close to my limits and I'm not sure if this big increase in bandwidth is a permanent thing or something which is happening just this month.

I was wondering is there a way I can put download/bandwidth limits in place and keep the site from going offline.

I know I've been to sites where one could only download so many files at a time.

I am on the old Gigadeal x5 and I'm not sure upgrading the plan is in the budget at the moment. Would have to negotiate with my paymaster about that.

[Santo]

btw, you can always ban theyr ip on cpanel....

[Sara]

Thanks Carlos

I think for now I'm riding to the limit until it is reset at midnight tonight. Then a plan upgrade is in the works and some heavy restructuring of the whole site. Not what I was planning at doing this soon, but I guess it is time.