~tl
68kMLA Admin Emeritus
Well, I hope everyone enjoyed their mid-year forum detox...
...seriously though, sorry for the brief service interruption. Basically, since the 12th of last month I was getting an insane number of hits on one particularly large file on my server (that's nothing to do with the MLA) and that maxed my bandwidth allowance before the end of the month. This has never been a problem in the past, usually the monthly bandwidth usage is around 8GB, of which 90% is the MLA and is well within my limit. Last month this single file transferred over 14GB, which kinda pushed me over a little! Also, I didn't get any warning e-mails, so didn't notice until I got the same "bandwidth limit exceeded" when I tried to access the forums. I've been looking at the logs, and while I'm not ruling out some sort of DDoS attack, there doesn't seem to be any pattern to the access and it's spread over the course of a number of days.
I got in touch with my host, with the intention to buy some more bandwidth, but by the time they go back to me it was last night... so I decided it was hardly worth it for a couple of hours. They are looking in to why I didn't get any e-mails though, and I have removed the file in question, so hopefully this won't happen again. I'm also looking in to getting the MLA a dedicated hosting plan...
So, anyway, what were we talking about?!
...seriously though, sorry for the brief service interruption. Basically, since the 12th of last month I was getting an insane number of hits on one particularly large file on my server (that's nothing to do with the MLA) and that maxed my bandwidth allowance before the end of the month. This has never been a problem in the past, usually the monthly bandwidth usage is around 8GB, of which 90% is the MLA and is well within my limit. Last month this single file transferred over 14GB, which kinda pushed me over a little! Also, I didn't get any warning e-mails, so didn't notice until I got the same "bandwidth limit exceeded" when I tried to access the forums. I've been looking at the logs, and while I'm not ruling out some sort of DDoS attack, there doesn't seem to be any pattern to the access and it's spread over the course of a number of days.
I got in touch with my host, with the intention to buy some more bandwidth, but by the time they go back to me it was last night... so I decided it was hardly worth it for a couple of hours. They are looking in to why I didn't get any e-mails though, and I have removed the file in question, so hopefully this won't happen again. I'm also looking in to getting the MLA a dedicated hosting plan...
So, anyway, what were we talking about?!
