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Atticbat
4-7-04, 08:09 PM
The gzuclan.com website 'mistakenly' hosted some file redirects for the UT2004 game server we host, and due to bandwidth usage, it is now offline.

What can we do to facilitate getting our site back online?

Any suggestions?

(ps... the files have been relocated to another server to prevent this from happening again in the future)

Thanks!
tbonekkt
4-7-04, 08:13 PM
Contact support@powweb.com - explain what happened, tell them how you fixed it, and they'll reenable it.
Atticbat
4-7-04, 09:03 PM
sweet... Much Thanks.
Atticbat
4-7-04, 09:07 PM
sent.

Again, thank you for your quick reply.
CreepiNDeath
4-9-04, 06:10 PM
It appears our site has been taken down again. It was not even up for a day. Impressive work Powweb.

There is no reason it should have been taken down. We removed the problem with the downloading. Please explain.
tbonekkt
4-9-04, 06:36 PM
Originally posted by CreepiNDeath
It appears our site has been taken down again. It was not even up for a day. Impressive work Powweb. Don't blame PowWeb before investigating. Check the history tab in OPS. There should be an explanation.Originally posted by CreepiNDeath
There is no reason it should have been taken down. We removed the problem with the downloading. Please explain. Follow the correct procedure and contact support@powweb.com to get an explantion.
Atticbat
4-9-04, 07:12 PM
okay, email sent to support.

checked history in the ops.

From: "PowWeb Admin" <abuse@powweb.com>
Subject: Package Service HTTP (460922) Disabled

DO NOT RENABLE. Bandwidth abuser over limit. Must contact Billing if applicable.


???

Disabled for how long? We repaired the situation and I have checked the usage stats we are nowhere near repeating the original offense.

Will communicate with Dirk and see if he can contact billing. Is there going to be some kind of charge for this 'abuse'?

Any Info Appreciated. Thanks.
Andrew
4-9-04, 07:33 PM
Hi Atticbat,

I've activated your http, please give it 15mins. There are no additional charges. Please watch your bandwidth to avoid this from happening again. Thank you for your understanding.
Atticbat
4-9-04, 07:34 PM
you rule.

Thank you so much!

I have communicated the importance to all involved on maintaining awareness of the bandwidth.

Thanks again!!!
snowmaker
4-9-04, 08:28 PM
Originally posted by Atticbat
I have communicated the importance to all involved on maintaining awareness of the bandwidth. Don't mean to hijack this thread, but I wrote this little bit PHP that reads the access_log file and adds up the byes transferred. It's probably a horribly inefficient piece of code, and a real programmer could do much to improve on it, but here 'tis..

-b

edit: If you want to see what it does, see the bottom of my webpage, http://somdcomputerguy.com, and re-load the page a few times. Minus the PHP start and end tags, here's the code:

$handle = fopen("access.log", "r");

$log_file = fscanf($handle, "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t\n");
if ($log_file) {
list (,,,$start_time,$zone,,,,,) = $log_file;
}
while (!feof($handle)) {
$log_file = fscanf($handle, "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t\n");
if ($log_file) {
list (,,,$last_time,,,,,,$bytes) = $log_file;
$total_bytes += $bytes;
}
$log_file=NULL;
}
fclose($handle);
$kilo_bytes = number_format($total_bytes);
$mega_bytes = number_format($total_bytes/1024);
echo "<i>Since</i> <b>$start_time$zone</b> ";
echo "<i>there has been</i> <b>$mega_bytes</b> <i>megabytes served.</i> ";
echo "<b>$kilo_bytes</b> <i>total bytes.</i>\n";
Atticbat
4-9-04, 10:44 PM
that is a cool piece of script!

Depends on how you look at it, but we really were just victims of bad judgement.

Our gaming site has recently taken a turn for the popular as we were featuring servers running UT2004 with some newly released maps.

I think people were so hungry for the files they were loading up our gaming servers and pulling from the redirect files we had up on gzuclan.com

We really had only intended to make it convenient to the gamers in our own little community, but our community seems to have grown a bit more than we anticipated ;)

We blame powweb for having such quick servers :D

It really shouldnt be an issue as we have no real downloads on either http://gamerzunlimited.com or http://gzuclan.com which are our two powweb sites for the UT2k4 community.

You are however welcome to come by and join us for some great fun with Vehicle Invasion and Onlsaught.

Thanks again to the admins for bringing the site back online.

As much as I like the forums y'all have here, I hope to not have to post any maydays or SOS's any time soon ;)
user00265
4-10-04, 01:09 AM
Originally posted by snowmaker
Don't mean to hijack this thread, but I wrote this little bit PHP that reads the access_log file and adds up the byes transferred.
Not a problem, it's still on the subject. Nice idea.

Originally posted by snowmaker
It's probably a horribly inefficient piece of code
It's not inefficient, it's really fast!

Originally posted by snowmaker
a real programmer could do much to improve on it, but here 'tis [...]
A bit of RegExp do a nice little trick ;)
Preview (http://dragonboricua.net/mvp/bw.php) - Source (http://dragonboricua.net/mvp/bw.phps)