How To Monitor & Measure Traffic To Your Website - Part 2
Web Hosting Data & Bandwidth Considerations
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In part 1 we considered two free programs you can use for monitoring and measuring the traffic to your website. One of my readers suggested a third program, Gostats which I’m still checking out. In this follow up article, I want to go through another aspect of this subject, which I had n’t thought about until it became a problem for me.
Last week, I got an email from my Web Hosting provider which read:
“The domain technicalarticles.co.uk has reached 80% of its bandwidth limit (2707.29/3000.00 Megs). Do not respond to this message. Your reply will go nowhere. !!!!”
This was a bit ominous and caused some alarm bells to ring, and I was in a bit of a panic for a few days. Let’s just go through what happened and how I got to the bottom of this little episode.
