[wordpress] Re: [wp-hackers] Forum post: Huge server hits

[Elliott Bäck]

Yup, bingo!  Imagine my horror to wake up to 50,000 hits on a page where 
I was serving 1024x768 pngs... needless to say I jpeded them immediately....

Thanks,
Elliott C. Bäck

607-229-0623
http://elliottback.com



Matthew Mullenweg wrote:

> Elliott Bäck wrote:
>
>> I used up 90 GB of bandwidth yesterday:
>>
>> 90,000 mb / 24 hours * 1 hr / 60 min * 1 min / 60 s = 1.04 MB/s = 
>> 8.33 Mb/s
>>
>> That's saturation level on older cards.  Since my machine is a shared 
>> host, it was probably getting hammered pretty hard overall...
>
>
> If you were doing 90 GB of weblog text, it'd be a WP issue, but I'm 
> guessing (correct me if I'm wrong) that the bulk of that bandwidth is 
> due to multimedia files like the longhorn screenshots you're hosting, 
> not gzipped HTML. I would characterize your situation as atypical.
>