Bandwidth

Cpanel and Awstats + Webalizer

[ebloggy]

I use Cpanel 8.0

My Cpanel stats show an average of 400 mb of bandwidth used each day (HTTP Traffic ONLY)

However, both Awstats and Webalizer show an average of 200 mb of bandwidth used each day.

Why is there such a discrepancy?

[amznVibe]

Could be the time period they are averaging over? One using weeks, or months, the other using an all time average?

Download your logs and run it through an independent analyzer, see what you get.
(or ask your host?)

[ebloggy]

Will download my raw access logs.

What independent analyzer could I use?

My host is unsure what's the problem too

[ebloggy]

I am unable to rectify the problem.

Any help?

[closed]

Can't really help. I was thinking along the same lines as amznVibe above.

My host's control panel counts months using the date my account was created as the starting point (e.g., March 15-April 14, April 15-May 14). When I use AWStats or Webalizer, however, the stats are calculated by using the month of the year (e.g., March, April).

Is the discrepancy large when you compare the daily (not the average) bandwidth consumption calculated by each program?

[marcs]

Make sure you know what file types each stats package takes into account when calculating traffic.

Some will only count web pages (.html/.php/.asp and so on) and not graphics or other media files. I doubt this is the case here as the difference should be much larger.

Does email traffic and FTP traffic get counted by your host? That may make a difference too. Again, the difference seems too large here, but who knows.

[moltar]

I have a reseller account for web hosting. It also uses Cpanel, but I have access to the admin part. There it says that it calculates all the traffic: http, ftp and pop traffic. They might also count HTTP headers and all that other stuff too, I am not sure. Do you use FTP a lot?

Also, I beleive user traffic and spider traffic is separated into two different counts. And error traffic is also separate.

[ebloggy]

Yes when I meant daily average I meant for each day of the month, there is a large difference between Awstats + Webalizer and Cpanel.

Regarding spiders, Awstats does report stats on them. In any case, spiders do not take up another 200mb each day.

I do get an error_log sometimes but they haven't been a lot. But why would errors result in bandwidth usage? My host merely writes the error to my error_log in my account.

I do not use a lot of FTP and Email, and when I use slightly more, Cpanel does report it in its stats separately from HTTP traffic (FTP and email traffic is too insignificant anyway).

I use Apache mod_rewrite to forward http://www.example.com/username to http://www.example.com/blog.php?username=username
and I wonder if that would use bandwidth?

I am planning on asking my host to switch me to Ensim or Plesk and see if things turn out better.

[edited by: engine at 12:52 pm (utc) on Nov. 3, 2003]
[edit reason] examplified [/edit]

[moltar]

Bots can take up quite a bit of bandwidth! Looking at your bandwidth I think you have a large site...

In October I had 29928 Googlebot visits and in total it was 290.91 MB. And in some days I had thousands of Googlebot visits.

AV is very rude sometimes taking 10,000 pages a day. So does Ask! I maxed out my bandwidth overnight once, because of Ask. Took somewhat 30,000 pages in one go.