[shamzblueworld]

Well at my forum, I am using a lot of the available bandwith, is there something I could do to reduce it maybe? How do they count or measure it? I know eventually I'm gonna have to upgrade the package but the forum is not active at all and still using so much bandwidth.

[Raees]

I think its mostly because many spam bots are visiting your site, you will have to try blocking spam bots or you no choice you must upgrade your package.

[shamzblueworld]

Any tip on how to block the spam bots?

[CyberFreak]

Does your site have a lot of images or images that are of a big file size? If so, reducing the number of images or reducing the file size of the images will help to reduce bandwidth usage. A service like Cloudflare can help reduce bandwidth usage aswell if you are that desperate although in this day and age, you shouldn't really have to worry about bandwidth. Any decent host usually gives more bandwidth than 99% of sites will need.

[shamzblueworld]

Yeah I'll go into cloudflare thingy, maybe that can help.

[Bananaman]

Try using awstats to find out what's using up the most bandwidth. I recently had a problem with something (either a script or a bot) continuously downloading files, which caused my forum to be down for a month.

[r.kun]

i got 10-20 gb band with cloudflare

[singhabhishek251]

This is a very general issue where most dynamic websites get automated bots and they use a lot of bandwidth that eats up your space and by the way these days you can find too many hosting providers offering unlimited bandwidth so that should not bother you.

[ImmenseFox]

Probally Spam bots visisted your site, the same thing happened to my friends website too.

[yashrajkarthikey2]

Use cloudflare, it will allow you to prevent spam bots visiting your website and unnecessarily raising your bandwidth.

[nejnej25]

Well, maybe they're correct. Spam bots is visiting your site.

[paulojunior85]

:D

Hi my friend,

Please edit the your post, was so easy if we like users wrote only smiles!

Have a great day!

[DinheiroGelada]

CloudFlare is your friend.

They also have had an update recently and things are even better imo.

I don't understand a lot about forums, but there should be addons/plugins/docummentation about it. Cache + Blocking Bots

[OtherM]

Well at my forum, I am using a lot of the available bandwith, is there something I could do to reduce it maybe? How do they count or measure it? I know eventually I'm gonna have to upgrade the package but the forum is not active at all and still using so much bandwidth.

If you know how traffic and bandwith works you should figure this out quite easily.
If you have pictures, videos or what ever that has a decent amount of data, always try to keep the size of the data as low as possible, crop all you pictures and videos and so on.
Don't make your website load stuff you don't need.
If you do this you will minimize the data needed/used for each session, resulting in more possible access time

For pictures, if you got a HD image of couple Mbs, just screenshot it and save it, congratz you HD picture is now 100Kb