Despite getting less and less shoppers, one of my sites keeps going over the bandwidth limit. We've used nearly 15 gigs of bandwidth this last month - that's five gigs over our allotted 10 gigs of bandwidth.
Most likely this is due to our Wordpress blog on our domain, which receives the majority of our traffic.
For example: Our wordpress site had 30K views last month, while our ecommerce pages only had 10.5K views last month.
Traffic was split 50/50 between visitors from the USA (our main selling region) and visitors outside the USA. Quite frankly, I would be happy if NO visitors from outside the USA and Canada come to our blog, so if there is an effective way to block NON-USA traffic to our blog, then that would be a good starting point.
Aside from that, is there a free CDN where I can host my blog images?
I have tried using the logs provided by Miva for better analyzing which pages are the biggest resource hogs, but unfortunately the webalyzer stats are apparently slightly worse than using a Magic 8 ball and only slightly better than using Miss Cleo...
Miva tech support has confirmed with me that POST requests don't count against bandwidth, so bots that are trying to spam my wordpress blog are not the culprit. (Apparently, only GET requests count against bandwidth usage.)
I hope someone out there has some ideas aside from "just buy more bandwidth"
Thanking you in advance.
P.S. I would rather keep the blog and the shopping cart on the same domain since that helps out with SEO.
Most likely this is due to our Wordpress blog on our domain, which receives the majority of our traffic.
For example: Our wordpress site had 30K views last month, while our ecommerce pages only had 10.5K views last month.
Traffic was split 50/50 between visitors from the USA (our main selling region) and visitors outside the USA. Quite frankly, I would be happy if NO visitors from outside the USA and Canada come to our blog, so if there is an effective way to block NON-USA traffic to our blog, then that would be a good starting point.
Aside from that, is there a free CDN where I can host my blog images?
I have tried using the logs provided by Miva for better analyzing which pages are the biggest resource hogs, but unfortunately the webalyzer stats are apparently slightly worse than using a Magic 8 ball and only slightly better than using Miss Cleo...
Miva tech support has confirmed with me that POST requests don't count against bandwidth, so bots that are trying to spam my wordpress blog are not the culprit. (Apparently, only GET requests count against bandwidth usage.)
I hope someone out there has some ideas aside from "just buy more bandwidth"
Thanking you in advance.
P.S. I would rather keep the blog and the shopping cart on the same domain since that helps out with SEO.
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