Bandwidth

[Skull]

I've done a search on the boards, and on the PHP Manual but I can't find anything, so I decided to ask.

Is there any possible way of finding out how much bandwidth a folder has used?

[drew010]

not unless you have a server stats program like awstats, or webalizer. these programs parse your server logs and track how many times images, documents, and things like that were hit on any given day and graphs them out for you showing how much data transfer a certain file or folder has sent.

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/

[Skull]

Thanks, but I was more looking for a way that I could find out using PHP.

The reason for this is that i'm giving out free hosting on my site but I want each user folder to have limited bandwidth, so i'm going to create a php file, and check each folder's bandwidth and if its over a set limit then it will redirect anyone that try's to access something in that folder to a 'Bandwidth error' page.

The file will be ran by the server every 2 minutes.

Thats the only way I could think of to give limited bandwidth to users, so if anyone can help or give me an alternative way it would be appreciated.

[drew010]

then you can write a php script to parse your servers log files and tally up the data transfer for each folder and then compare the usage of user folders to what is allowed. thats the only way i can think of without writing your own apache module.

[LordShryku]

http://www.snert.com/Software/mod_throttle/