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This article covers
Ways to Save your Bandwidth
Minimize your bandwidth usages
Getting rid of “Bandwidth Limit exceeded” Problem
With the new hosting providers offering virtually unlimited bandwidth, people seems to have forgotten about the term “bandwidth”. However in sites with the large visitors ,bandwidth stills plays a vital role. The outage of the bandwidth can make the site inaccessible hurting the reputation of the site and causing problems for the loyal surfers of customers. So, it is always be good to be safe from the bandwidth outage problems.
In plain terms, in shared server bandwidth can be referred to amount of data transfer from a site in a particular month(it resets at the beginning of every month).Normally many sites face bandwidth outage problems at the end of the month.
Some ways to be safe from bandwidth outage problem are as follows:
1)Multimedia contents Outsourcing: If you are in the shared server make sure you don’t have host huge videos and audios files in your site. It would be better to host those in third-party sites like youtube, ishare and embed the code in your site. It saves your bandwidth(as your bandwidth is not used).Moreover you will get large audience from the hosted site like YouTube for your multimedia contents.
Video Upload sites: http://www.Youtube.com www.metacafe.com
Image upload site: www.imageshack.us http://www.photobucket.com/ http://www.flickr.com/
2)Programming Problems: Poorly written web forms and other data input filed in the website are normally spammed by the spammers. The forms written without tools like captcha (www.captcha.net) and other similar technologies may be repeatedly accessed by the spammers using some automatic bots consuming large amount of bandwidth and posting useless stuffs in database. So, it is always safe to use tools like captcha.
3)Good Design: With the advent of css, lots of effects similar to image are possible through css itself. So minimize the use of image where possible. Use CSS instead. Use DIV or SPAN instead of tables which can help to transfer less data.
4)Use Compressors: There are lots of different types of compressors available. Javascript can be compressed using tools from sites like Javascript Compressor .Images can be compressed losing little quality with the tools like Advanced Jpeg Compressor. Even html can be compressed. If you use language like jquery make use that you use compressed or minimized version of jquery library and its files. Even CSS Can be compressed(CSS compressor).If you have a PHP website, try the GZIP compression.
5) Disable file hotlinks: Many sites don’t host images in their site rather they link or embed from other sites which causes problems of bandwidth theft. So you should Disable file hotlinks so that it couldn’t be embedded using .htaccess (tutorial) file or through option available in Cpanel.
6)External RSS cache: If you use RSS in your site, Use external sources to cache your RSS Feed. You can cache your RSS Feed to save bandwidth. Sign up at RSS Cache .( how it works)
7) Use AJAX and related technologies: AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) can help to take down bandwidth. Using this, you’ll be able to save a lot of bandwidth since visitors don’t have to re-load the full page. Instead of that, they reload only a portion of a page saving lots of bandwidth.
Monitor, Monitor, Monitor: You should constantly monitor if your bandwidth is being sucked by single ip spammer or bots. Normally you can check you Stat counter tools or use services like google analytics to analyze the traffic of your site. Cpanel also has various tools available for monitoring bandwidth usage. If your large portion of the bandwidth is being consumed by the single IP every day, most probably its spammer whose bots are accessing your site constantly. So, you can block these ip using tools available in Cpanel (Block IP).
So ,these are some of the ways you can adopt to minimize your bandwidth usage. Beside these you should be always intuitive to monitor activities going on your site(“are bots downloading the huge file repeatedly from your site?” and so on) and you should think of bandwidth things from the point you think of creating the site and design, program and manage things accordingly rather than panicking after bandwidth problems. After all good start always has good and easier end.
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