Bandwidth is all data transferred to and from your hosting account – website visitors, file uploads and email.
To check your usage
- Log in to cPanel.
- The Statistics panel on the right shows this month's bandwidth.
- For a breakdown by month and service, go to Metrics → Bandwidth.
Finding what's using it
- Metrics → Awstats shows visitors, top pages, file types and search engine robots. A high “Not viewed traffic” figure usually means bots are crawling your site.
- Metrics → Raw Access lets you download your full access log for detailed analysis.
Common causes of high usage
- Aggressive bots – block them in your
robots.txt, or with Security → IP Blocker in cPanel if they ignore it. - Large email attachments, or syncing big mailboxes over IMAP.
- Large media files – consider hosting video on YouTube or Vimeo and embedding it.
If you regularly get close to your limit, contact us about upgrading your plan.
