Website removed due to excessive bandwidth use

[#1]

Once again my website has been removed because of excessive bandwidth use. This seems to happen about once a year and I'm at a loss to understand what's going on.

Posting here in hopes someone from support can get it back online.

Thanks,

Geoff

[#2]

Hi @Geoff_E thank you for taking the time to contact us. I have raised this with our NetOps team, please follow this link for a more detailed response: https://www.plus.net/wizard/?p=view_question&id=245948845

Please let me know if there's anything else we may look into for you

[#3]

Do you have web stats enabled in the site? Inspection of that might give some clue as to what / who has burnt your bandwidth.

If it is an indexing bot, consider configuring a robot.txt file to exclude images etc.

[#4]

Website back online. Many thanks.

I do not have webstats enabled so far as I'm aware.

My suspicion was a bot - this seems to happen at pretty precisely six or twelve month intervals. I'll look into sorting out a robots.txt file. I have a lot of pdfs on the site so if a bot is downloading them all to index them I guess that would do it.

Thanks again,

Geoff

[#5]

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@Geoff_E wrote:

I do not have webstats enabled so far as I'm aware.

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This is an option under manage my webspace.