Incorrect bandwidth usage

[benito]

Hello, i have a site in one server who is showing way more bandwith usage than real. Went from several MB per day to 23GB per day. Not even the entire server has that traffic. Just in case y check on Google Analytics and AWSTATS a they are not showing any abnormal traffic. Where i can look to fix this?

Thanks!

 

[Handssler Lopez]

If you want to see exactly what your bandwidth is consuming from cPanel you can enter: Home >> Metrics >> Visitors >> Select a Domain.

There you can see the visits you are having and who or what consumes your bandwidth.

I had a similar problem in one of my accounts and this was due to high traffic from a search engine.

msnbot 4,320 + 9 28.60 GB 15 Nov 2019 - 08:59

Add a robots.txt file since it had been removed before and limit the traffic of the search engine, I hope my answer is useful

 

[benito]

Thanks @Handssler Lopez i found a botnet trying to access the file /qnap_firmware.xml with the site does not have. Because the site is in wordpress the 404 page was taking many resources. So i make a blank file withe the same filename and problem solved.

 

[cPanelLauren]

Thanks!s @Handssler Lopez and @benito I'm glad your issue was able to be resolved and thanks for letting us know what happened!