Gowtham Is Eating Our Bandwidth!
A few days ago Ragha sent me a message and telling me that Ampli5.org had run out of bandwidth and asked me to fix it. This was odd since I had set the maximum bandwidth for that account to 10 GB and it wasn’t likely that all of the people with blogs on the account would use up that much. The bandwidth usage for last month was only 2 GB (for that account).
Imagine my surprise when I got home and found the account showing 9 GB of bandwidth used. So I changed the upper limit to 20 GB and set about examining who was using that much bandwidth. It turned out to be Gowtham’s blog. I called up Gowtham and asked him if he had done anything out of the ordinary and he told me that he hadn’t. Meanwhile one of the people at my host contacted me and told me that the particular blog was using up a lot of bandwidth and was causing 200% CPU usage.
Later at night I checked Awstats for the subdomain and it turned out that the massive bandwidth usage was caused by a single IP address. And this IP address was actually the server’s own IP address! What the hell. By now the bandwidth usage was 18 GB, and it was only 6 days into the month. I asked George to reinstall the blog hoping that it would help and it did, but no before bandwidth usage was 25 GB.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
It’s that theme. Make sure he never uses it again.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
How did you figure that?
February 11th, 2008 at 4:37 am
If the CPU usage goes up extremely high it’s always related to the bad scripting, that’s how he did that!
February 11th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
It persisted even after a WordPress reinstall and even with the default theme.
February 11th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
I did only some minor changes to the theme code. And i have no idea how it happened eventually i lost my Blog and got a name as “Bandwidth Demon” by the ampli5 users
February 12th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Bandwidth Demon is here! Run! Run, before your blog is out of bandwidth!
February 15th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Give me another sub-domain. My hunger for bandwidth is not satisfied
February 16th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Nowai!
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:45 pm
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February 23rd, 2008 at 11:08 pm
@ Gowthaman
ROFL
@ Marc and George
Well who is the actual highest bandwidth user in ampli5 except the main ampli5???? Hehehe
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:32 pm
You know the answer, you anime fan.
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Indeed. Posting about DBZ and letting random discussions continue in your comments section.