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Bandwidth being exceeded on host, plugin issue?
17 March, 2011
9:50 am
rhd
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Hi All,

my website hosting company have been in touch to say that I've exceeded the 200GB bandwidth limit over the last 30 days.

After some initial digging it looks like 98% of the requests are for the sermon audio files and coming from the server that is hosting the site!

The suggestion from the hosting company is that my website or a plugin is misconfigured and generating the large number of requests and traffic volume.

Is there anyway that sermonbrowser could be causing the problem? Any suggestion on how to determine a root cause?

I'm running WP 3.1 and 0.43.5 of sermon browser. I have about 5 other WP plugins installed.

Thanks,
Ralph

18 March, 2011
2:26 pm
Ben Miller
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I don't have an immediate answer for you, but I have a couple of questions for you.

1. Who is your hosting company?
2. When you click on Sermons in the WordPress control panel and see the list of your sermons, what are the Stats for your last 6 sermons?
3. Would you mind posting a link to your site?

Ben Miller
Pathways Church, Appleton, WI, USA
22 March, 2011
11:47 am
rhd
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Hi Ben,

answers below…not sure how the formatting will turn out. Any help or suggestions are appreciated.

Ralph

1.) http://www.blacknight.com/

2.)

41 From Scripture to Sermon Christopher Ash 12 Jan 11 Workshop IPC 2011 73 Edit | Delete | View
40 The Joy of a Cleansed Conscience 3/3 Christopher Ash 12 Jan 11 Main Speaker IPC 2011 39 Edit | Delete | View
39 The Joy of a Cleansed Conscience 2/3 Christopher Ash 11 Jan 11 Main Speaker IPC 2011 29 Edit | Delete | View
38 The Joy of a Cleansed Conscience 1/3 Christopher Ash 10 Jan 11 Main Speaker IPC 2011 53 Edit | Delete | View
28 Exposition on 1 Peter 1:13-21 Liam Goligher 13 Jan 10 Main Speaker IPC 2010 260 Edit | Delete | View
27 Revelation and Apocalyptic Literature Liam Goligher 13 Jan 10 Main Speaker IPC 2010 271 Edit | Delete | View

3.) http://www.irishpreachers.org/

An example raw stats log showing the host making most of the requests follows (

220.181.125.145 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:31:43 +0000] "GET /conference-audio/?sermon_id=2 HTTP/1.1" 200 17406 "-" "Sogou web spider/4.0(+http://www.sogou.com/docs/help…..ers.htm#07)" http://www.irishpreachers.org
17.230.16.163 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:05 +0000] "HEAD /conference-audio/?podcast HTTP/1.1" 200 – "-" "iTMS" http://www.irishpreachers.org
17.230.16.163 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:06 +0000] "HEAD /conference-audio/?podcast HTTP/1.1" 200 – "-" "iTMS" http://www.irishpreachers.org
81.17.254.92 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:07 +0000] "GET /audio/2011/ipc_2011_christopher_ash_practical_session.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 20043084 "-" "-" http://www.irishpreachers.org
81.17.254.92 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:07 +0000] "GET /audio/2011/ipc_2011_christopher_ash_main_session3.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 16126392 "-" "-" http://www.irishpreachers.org
81.17.254.92 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:07 +0000] "GET /audio/2011/ipc_2011_christopher_ash_main_session_2.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 15015648 "-" "-" http://www.irishpreachers.org
81.17.254.92 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:07 +0000] "GET /audio/2011/ipc_2011_christopher_ash_main_session_1.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 22292544 "-" "-" http://www.irishpreachers.org
81.17.254.92 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:07 +0000] "GET /audio/2010/Session3_MIC-2010-01-13_10h34m30s.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 50708762 "-" "-" http://www.irishpreachers.org
81.17.254.92 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:07 +0000] "GET /audio/2010/Session1_MIC-2010-01-11_16h15m02s.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 52350362 "-" "-" http://www.irishpreachers.org
81.17.254.92 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:07 +0000] "GET /audio/2010/Session2_MIC-2010-01-12_10h36m46s.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 55861658 "-" "-" http://www.irishpreachers.org
81.17.254.92 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:07 +0000] "GET /audio/2010/Session4_MIC-2010-01-13_12h19m56s.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 45879002 "-" "-" http://www.irishpreachers.org
81.17.254.92 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:07 +0000] "GET /audio/2009/6_CHURCH PLANTING_IPC2009.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 9247 "-" "-" http://www.irishpreachers.org
81.17.254.92 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:08 +0000] "GET /audio/2009/5_Session5_IPC2009.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 9148880 "-" "-" http://www.irishpreachers.org
81.17.254.92 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:08 +0000] "GET /audio/2009/4_Session4_IPC2009.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 11402624 "-" "-" http://www.irishpreachers.org
81.17.254.92 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:08 +0000] "GET /audio/2009/3_Session3qa_IPC2009.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 13370816 "-" "-" http://www.irishpreachers.org
81.17.254.92 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:08 +0000] "GET /audio/2009/2_Session2_IPC2009.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 10561808 "-" "-" http://www.irishpreachers.org
81.17.254.92 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:08 +0000] "GET /audio/2008/e_sess5_2008_garymillar.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 9865712 "-" "-" http://www.irishpreachers.org
81.17.254.92 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:08 +0000] "GET /audio/2009/1_Session1_IPC2009.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 11104256 "-" "-" http://www.irishpreachers.org
81.17.254.92 – - [17/Mar/2011:02:50:08 +0000] "GET /audio/2008/g_sess6_2008_tot.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 10456832 "-" "-" http://www.irishpreachers.org

22 March, 2011
11:49 am
rhd
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Just to clarify the sermon browser plugin stats are in the 100's (total over several months) while the raw log stats indicate over a 1300 hits per sermon each month.

28 April, 2011
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The fact that you are linking to URLs on your own site (rather than to the file itself) will double your bandwidth when you download files. It will make every download request look as though it comes from the server itself.

28 April, 2011
8:52 am
rhd
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Mark Barnes said:

The fact that you are linking to URLs on your own site (rather than to the file itself) will double your bandwidth when you download files. It will make every download request look as though it comes from the server itself.

Hi Mark,

thanks for the help. Do you have any suggestions as to what I've mis-configured to end up in this state?

I've specified absolute URLs for each sermon. The reason was that I could never get the "choose existing file" option to work.

The current upload folder is set to something like:

//usr/local/yyyy/vhosts/xxx/webspace/zzzapps/xxx/htdocs/audio/ (I've purposely garbled some of the directory names)

Thanks,
Ralph

28 April, 2011
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Try changing the folder to just /audio/

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