Bandwidth Exceeded Limits and Countermeasures
Whenever someone gets a notification that says Bandwidth Limit Exceeded, they usually panic and call their developer or a development company.
What is Bandwidth and Bandwidth transfer?
Definitions:
- Bandwidth measures the amount of data transmitted through a connection over time.
- Also called the data transfer rate, it is usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Nowadays, it seems like more and more people have started using the Internet for their business. Social and e-commerce sites are also good reasons for increased Internet usage. At the same time, many people are unfamiliar with Bandwidth, even if they own a website.
Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be transferred at one time.
Regarding hosting, bandwidth is the maximum amount of data transferred each month or given period. Data transfer is the amount of data that is transferred between your site and your visitor’s browser. For example, if your website homepage size is one megabyte, then whenever visitors visit your website homepage, their browser will download one megabyte of data. The data transfer can be calculated based on file size and visits.
How to keep track of bandwidth transfer
You can see bandwidth usage on your cPanel account
Exceeded transfer rate
Furthermore, you may also get an email notification if your site exceeds data transfer for a given month.
Bandwidth effects on your website
Your website will load more slowly as your account has less bandwidth. No matter how fast the connection types your website visitors have. You often see pages unavailable on some sites because of the maximum amount of data allowed to be transferred. In this case, visitors will need to wait for their turn.
Unavailable because Bandwidth Exceeded
First, you will need to determine the required Bandwidth for your website, which can be identified by the size of your website(or, say, website pages) and the number of visitors in the given time frame. It is usually measured every month. The main goal is to ensure that all visitors can visit your website without waiting for their turn and without any problems.
Furthermore, you can determine the required Bandwidth for your site based on the following:
- Expected number of visitors per month (including unique and repeated)
- Page size
- Anticipated number of page views by visitor
How to review the Bandwidth from your cPanel
1. Using AWSTATS
AWSTATS2. Webalizer stats
3. Usage Stats
What should you do when the bandwidth limit is exceeded?
Well, in this case, you will have two options: either you can upgrade the package and increase it, or you can reduce the size of content with the following:
- Decrease the amount of data downloaded each time
- Decrease the usage of images
- Reduce the resolution of images
- Use the exact length of the print you need to show on the page
- Split the significant page into multiple pages (you can show different information on different pages so visitor’s browsers will download only content they are interested in)
- Remove videos or music used in the background
- Remove or restrict large downloads
- In addition, there can be many others as well
Hotlinking:
Hotlinking is also referred to as bandwidth theft. It means someone shows data on their site directly with links. For example, I have an image on my site: https://freelancer-coder.com/anyimage.png. If someone offers a picture instantly on their site like <img src=” https://freelancer-coder.com/anyimage.png” alt=” image”/>, then it is hotlinking. As a result, whenever visitors visit that page with an idea, the data will be transferred from my server to show that image. In this case, your data transfer usage will be higher than expected.
Using the .htaccess configuration file, we can prevent hotlinking. In this File, we can write rules to protect any asset usage directly on another site.
The example script to prevent the case I showed earlier can be:
- RewriteEngine On
- RewriteCond % !^$
- RewriteCond % !^http://(www\.)?freelancer-coder.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
- RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg)$ – [NC,F,L]
Finally, please share your thoughts and opinions about your experience regarding your site’s bandwidth limit being exceeded. If you have better suggestions on what to do when the bandwidth limit is exceeded, please share them via comments or connect with me.
Have you ever been a friend of IDwebhost when, on a web page, we sometimes find a case where our web page cannot be accessed as usual? Instead, the message “Bandwidth Limit Exceeded” appears. As ordinary people who use IT, we certainly think that maybe the server is down or there are technical problems with the connection and the server.
So the only well-known way is to ask our hosting and domain provider, “What’s wrong with our web???
Usually, the support is only limited to explaining that your bandwidth quota has run out; please refill it immediately. Just relax. Usually, the bandwidth quota is monthly, so if we run out of bandwidth one day, the next month, our website will automatically be accessible again. But do we have to wait until the end of the month to be able to reaccess our website? The following is a simple discussion regarding bandwidth.
Meaning of bandwidth limit exceeded
I try to explain in simple language what limited bandwidth exceeded is. It can be interpreted that bandwidth use in the hosting account exceeded the quota. For example, our bandwidth quota is 1GB/month; it turns out that it’s only been running for two weeks, and usage is already above it, so until the 1st of the next month, our web page will be decorated with beautiful writing: “bandwidth limit exceeded.”
How do you calculate bandwidth usage?
It’s easy. A simple example is that we have a web page with a size of 1 megabyte. In a day, people open it 20 times, so our bandwidth usage that day is 20 megabytes. To find out the size of our web page, you can use the Firebug add-on on Firefox or Chrome.
I only have a little traffic, but why is the bandwidth crazy??
Be patient. Don’t rush to blame the hosting provider! Try to see if your post contains large images. Or maybe there are also malicious machines that like to roam around sucking up your articles and pictures; of course, this will eat up bandwidth too. Please use a plugin such as destructive behavior, pc robots, and text to deal with these evil machines. Or if the image you like is copied and the link is placed on another website, please do hotlink protection.
My traffic is very high. Is there a solution to save bandwidth?
Choosing a template wisely is possible. A compressor plugin, for example, can compress HTML, CSS, and compressed images—not bad for saving bandwidth.
How do you find out what’s consuming the most bandwidth on the web?
It’s pretty straightforward: please log in to cPanel, click awstats, and pay attention to the bandwidth usage details. It explains everything that causes your bandwidth quota to run out quickly.
Conclusion
In short, the error 509 bandwidth limit exceeded appears when the allotted website bandwidth is ultimately used. Today, our support engineers made a few recommendations to avoid this problem.
