Title: Bandwidth
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Bandwidth

 *  [nikki09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikki09/)
 * (@nikki09)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-1/)
 * Hello,
    I got a problem with my site. It uses a lot of bandwidth and I don’t 
   know why. I’ve even closed the comments page. But still it uses over 20GB a day(
   only the main page with no download files). I have around 20,000 visitors a day
   but does it really mean they use 20GB every time they open my webpage? What’s
   more interesting I also have a coppermine gallery (which is shut down now) with
   HQ images. When the gallery is open it uses less bandwidth than the wordpress
   page! How can it be possible?

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 *  Thread Starter [nikki09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikki09/)
 * (@nikki09)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-1/#post-1291286)
 * oh, and I’m using the latest WP version with no plugins, only wp super cache
 *  [phuonglynet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phuonglynet/)
 * (@phuonglynet)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-1/#post-1291287)
 * may be more than 20,000 visitors each day, then why
    you can contact the hosting
 * [**signature moderated** Please read the [Forum Rules](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/68664?replies=6)]
 *  [Nile Flores](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blondishnet/)
 * (@blondishnet)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-1/#post-1291292)
 * Are you on a shared, VPS, reseller, or dedicated server account with your host?
 * If shared hosting>
    you are having more than 20K in visitors, and possibly on
   a shared client… you might be using more resources than alloted for a webhost.
   I know from experience that Dreamhost would terminate or suspend accounts as 
   such as I hosted a site one time that had this much in unique visitors per day.
 * ———
    You might possibly be a victim of spammers. It happens. I am tempted to 
   ask what site drives this much traffic. Does your Google Analytics and Alexa 
   rank correspond somewhat with what your bandwidth is taking up.
 * BTW, Coppermine has been notoriously known to be infiltrated by spammers, even
   if you have it on moderated mode… kind of along the same line as phpbb as well.
 * ———
 * Possibly other guesses:
    How many plugins do you use? How many images do you 
   have uploaded into your WP? What kind of contact form do you use? Who hosts you?–
   some hosts may be unsecure and I know a few from past experience. Is anyone direct
   linking your images on your site? —- Do you get a lot of email if you use an 
   email from your domain and a lot of it is spammers? —- Have you analyzed with
   anything like Google Analytics or StatPress or WordPress stats on what or who
   visits your website, and what they are accessing?
 *  Thread Starter [nikki09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikki09/)
 * (@nikki09)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-1/#post-1291490)
 * Hey, thank you for your answer.
 * I got a dedicated server via server2sale.com
    I have no images uploaded at WordPress,
   no plugins, no contact form (actually nothing besides news), I even upload news
   images on tinypic.com
 * Maybe indeed spammers are the problem? I delete tons of spam from comments, but
   how could they attack my site when comments are offline?
 *  [Nile Flores](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blondishnet/)
 * (@blondishnet)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-1/#post-1291545)
 * If you have a dedicated server, is it WHM (cPanel)? If so, there is a section
   in the sidebar about email and your mail queue. If it is a high amount… yep, 
   you have spammers.
 * If not, or you prefer someone to look at it, ask your webhost to look into that
   and see if you are having an issue…. and fix it so you do not run into too many
   issues.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Nile Flores](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blondishnet/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-1/#post-1291545)
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