A Malicous Attack? or Not...

[EBOLII]

So I never before had this problem but as in the last week within a few hours like 2-3 I seem to be chewing up my bandwidth on my server wich only hosts images......and as of today only 4-5 of them of WIP nature yet I am still eating up bandwith?.......This I do not buy!
So what do you guys think? Is it possible? If so how to detect?


Oh and if your comments are get a better server then don't bother wasting my time this service has been really good

[General Phoenix]

See if you cna get a hold of your server's access / activity log. Maybe you can find out who has been causing that jump in bandwidth - chances are you have an image leecher or something...

I'm sure Fabio or Kier would know more about how to track down the problem.

[Kakaze]

There's a new virus running around that's been playing havoc with some servers. It's called Fizzer apparently.

[Fabio]

first of all objectively analyze the BW that would be generated by an image

for example a 100K image viewed by 500 people in one hour will generate 50Mb of BW in just that hour

likewise 4 wip images at 50K a piece will generate 100Mb for the same amount of hits in the same period - it'snot uncomoon for a image to get thousdands of hits in just one day - depends on your popularity?

If after such analysis the BW useage still seems extortionate - see if you can get a good webstats analyser to show what images etc.. are getting all the hits - it may be that you have a file leech there somewhere - there are ways to stop image leeching if you find that's the problem :)

[Chris B]

if fabio is right, which is likely to be the case, you might afterall want to switch the host - if you have a lot of traffic you won't get around paying for it.

for example, until i switched servers recently, i had 25GB of traffic free per month. I never used that up, because dd3d is not that big (250 visitors daily), but i did have 1 gig of traffic per week. most free hosts don't allow that i would think.

[Alex]

If you have a leech, the last person I knew who had that problem dealt with it by putting the most vile pic he could find in its place... shall not repeat what that was.

[General Phoenix]

Ah yes - good ole' Devilman. Not the most constructive way of handling the situation, but it worked.

[phish]

I saw someone put a hand drawn pic up instead of the proper one once.