Need help:small site using 100gb/day of bandwidth

Willing to pay for help, think a script is making calls that is killing my bandwidth.

Umm.. Since you are still using D 6.1.x it may be a little difficult to get some help.

- Do you have any tools that you can use in your cPanel that will tell your where the traffic is coming/going, like a Site Statistics?

- Have you contacted your hosting company to see if they could determine where or what is causing that much bandwidth?

Sounds like a DOS attack

That was my first thought too HL.

The host looked into it a month ago but couldn't figure it out. I have cpanel access, it looks like images are being repeatedly called.

And in the stats for the site, the majority of calls are coming from my host's ip address. Does that sound like a script of mine is calling the images?

It looks like some script is loading images from itself recursively !

If you are on dedicated server try to add the following line in /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 yourdomain.com www.yourdomain.com

A long time ago, I did that to myself by leech protecting images on one of my sites (Not a Dolphin site)  The site had a photo gallery, and I discovered that someone was using my site to host all their images in their ebay auctions.  I checked the ebay sellers listings, and he had hundreds of images hosted on my site that he was using in his then current ebay auctions.  I decided to use leech protection to substitute a different image for all external referrers, like ebay auctions.  The mistake I made was hosting the substituted image on the same site as the images I was so kindly hosting for the cheapskate seller.  Of course it created an endless image loading loop in the guys ebay auctions, and was gobbling up server BW.  It didn't take long to figure out to host the substituted image on a different site.

Anyway, the image I substituted was a big, ugly, hairy hand with an extended middle finger, with the words "F**k You" emblazoned on the picture.  Imagine the ebay sellers horror to wake up one day and discover this image in all of his current ebay auctions.

He never hosted images on my site again.

@ HL

That's hilarious!

I'd bet the ebay seller didn't think so.  It took him over a week to get all of his auctions fixed... all because he was too cheap to pay ebay 25 cents extra to host the image.

Correction: It's hotlink protection... not leech protection

I'm sure this isn't the correct fix for this problem, but I went thru cpanel and blocked my host's ip address. I've gone from 120gb of bandwidth to 3mb. The site seems to be functioning.

Would this mean it's something( a script) on my own site generating the bandwidth?