[cobalt-users] RE: [RaQ4] How can i limit the Bandwidth of a site/domain?

["Nuno Figueiredo" <cg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Message: 10
> From: "Erica Douglass" <erica@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] [RaQ4] How can i limit the Bandwidth of a
site/domain?
> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 21:39:51 -0700
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Nuno Figueiredo wrote:
> >
> > > i've got a raq4 and How can i limit the bw of a
> > site/domain.... i've
> > > searched around control pannel and i don't seem to find it...
> >
> > You can only limit bandwidth on a per-IP basis. If you have a
> > particular site that you'd like to limit, you need to
> > correlate that site with a single IP address.
>
> Can you go into a bit more detail here? I'd like to just have MRTG-style
> graphs for each IP address. I'll admit that I haven't looked into this
> in great detail, but I thought MRTG just let you see bandwidth to a
> switch port (i.e. server), not an IP address.
>
> I'd like to give my customers at-a-glance information about their
> current bandwidth usage as well as an option of what to do once that
> limit is reached. Should I try installing MRTG, or is there something
> else I should be looking at? Do Plesk or Ensim offer the ability to have
> customers pick what happens once the customer's bandwidth limit is
> reached?
>
> I have a stock Red Hat box (our database server) that I can install MRTG
> on, but I'm not sure how to monitor other boxes from there. I'd
> appreciate any information anyone on this list can give me.
>
> Thanks,
> Erica Douglass
> Lead Web Developer
> Simpli, Inc.

I've found an easier way to do that... just install and use mod_throttle for
apache on the box and u can control and give info to customers about their
usage and also limit it's speed

Nuno F.