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Every EarthLink Web Hosting account has a limit to the amount of bandwidth it is allowed to use per month. Additional
bandwidth
usage will be charged per megabyte. In order to help you control your bandwidth usage, EarthLink offers the
Bandwidth Limiter tool on the EarthLink Control Panel.
The Bandwidth Limiter allows you to regulate your Web Hosting site's bandwidth usage. Use this tool to determine what will happen when your site's bandwidth usage reaches a certain level; this tool may either let things carry on normally, email you a warning, or shut down access to your site for the rest of your billing period. We've provided this Bandwidth Limiter to allow you to protect yourself from sudden upswings in popularity which may drive your site's bandwidth way beyond your control (resulting in extra charges to your account).
When a hosting account is created, the Bandwidth Limiter is set to "do nothing." With this setting, if your site exceeds your pre-paid bandwidth, you will be charged per megabyte, but will not be notified of the charges until you receive your monthly bill.See
http://www.earthlink.net/biz/hosting/extras/
for current bandwidth pricing.
To get to the
Bandwidth Limiter
Log in to the Hosting Control Panel at
https://control.business.earthlink.net
.
From the
Site Statistics pull-down menu, choose
Bandwidth This Month.
Cycle Day shows the day of the month when your billing cycle begins and your bandwidth count resets. A Cycle Day of 15 means that your billing period runs from the 15th of one month to the 14th of the next.
To Date Bandwidth measures the number of megabytes sent so far during the current billing period.
Current Limit shows, in megabytes, the amount of bandwidth you want to accumulate before the Bandwidth Limiter takes action.
Note: The current limit setting does not affect your hosting plan's bandwidth limit; you may make it as high or as low as you want, but setting the boundary higher than your pricing plan's limit means that you will incur additional fees before the Bandwidth Limiter acts.
To activate the Bandwidth Limiter
Enter a number into the
Current Limitfield.
Choose one of the three options you see next to radio buttons.
Click the
Go button.
If you set the Bandwidth Limiter to turn off access to your Web site before going over the Current Limit, the site gets automatically reactivated at the beginning of the next billing cycle. So, if you have a Cycle Day of 15 and bandwidth goes over the Current Limit on the 12th, the site access will be reactivated in three days.
Bandwidth is determined by the following formula:
(number of hits per file) x (file size)
A Sample Web Page
As an example, consider a Web page . This page uses three files: one for the HTML, one for the smiley face image, and one for the line image at the page bottom. The HTML that makes up this page is about 983 bytes. The image at the top of the page is 1047 bytes, and the image at the bottom is 1022 bytes.
Each time this page gets hit it generates 3052 bytes of bandwidth:
983 bytes (happy.htm)
1047 bytes (smiley face)
1022 bytes (line)
3052 bytes total
If this page gets hit 10 times today, it will generate 30,520 bytes of bandwidth for the day.
So, if this was the only web page on your site, to use up two gigabytes of bandwidth per month (which is the allowed monthly bandwidth for a 20 megabyte Web Hosting space), this page would have to be viewed over 700,000 times!
If you were to click the
Refresh button on your web browser while viewing the Happy Page, you would generate another 3052 bytes of bandwidth on that site.
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