| Senior Member Name: Chris Location: Minneapolis Join Date: Jul 2006
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| It's hard to say if you have missing entries or just large gaps between file requests. if your server is really overloaded it could be the logging process is a low priority and data may get dropped if the server can't keep up. Your hosting provider may be able to tell you more about that.
Your web stats program that comes with your hosting should show you a section of information with the IP addresses of those that use the most bandwidth. Using something like network-tools.com you can find out some information about them and make sure it's someone you are having a problem with. Then if you are on a Linux host you can block them from downloading any files if they keep using the same IP address.
If you have one or 700mb RAR files then you can easily start burning through your bandwidth even with "normal" requests". One thing to keep in mind is that some clients, like web site copiers, can make many requests for many files at one time. And some programs can many requests to copy just one file. You may also be getting hit with spiders and bots that are just trying to see what you have on your site. Using a robots.txt file can help keep them away from your large download files.
I have a site with about 25 million expired domain names in HTML files. When I spot an IP address downloading over 500MB during a month I take a look at where they are located. If they are in China or some other countries I may block them. I can't afford to have people sucking down huge parts of my site if it's going to cost me more for bandwidth.
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