RE: [cobalt-developers] bandwidth limit per site

["Matthew Nuzum" <newz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> njd 76 wrote:
> 
> > I have a site that has alot of files, images, pdf files. Its taking
> > alot of bandwidth off my server. I  noticed under the control panel
>
> > bandwidth I can put a bandwidth limit on the site in kbps.
> 
> It's not really per site; it's per IP#.  If you bandwidth limit a site
> to 300 kbps, for example, all sites using the same IP will have the
same
> limit.  So ideally, to limit this site, it should be on it's own IP#.

Jeff was right on the money with this statement, but I want to add a
little, because I see many people misunderstand the implication.

If you limit an IP's bandwidth to 300K, and this IP has 5 sites, the
total aggregate bandwidth for the sites combined will not exceed 300K.
Therefore throttling the bandwidth will only give each site a fraction
of the total bandwidth, depending on how busy the other sites are.

A note on the original topic, which I think was in regard to a Raq3,
there are some apache modules that can limit the bandwidth for httpd
traffic.  Mod_throttle is the first that comes to mind, and I believe it
works on virtual sites.  It does not work on email, ftp or other
non-apache services though.

Matthew Nuzum
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