Bandwidth reporting

[Ultran]

My web hosting company just told me they will not allow me to run a TS server anymore because they claim they can not track the bandwidth usages of TS. Does anyone know of a way that I could make it report the bandwidth usage to them, or for them to verify my usage? I know I am not coming anywhere near my bandwidth limit. I have 170GB bandwidth per month, and my average web traffic pre-TS never topped 0.01GB for any month in the last year.(I expected a lot more traffic on my site obviously)

[Timeless]

Open the client and click Info menu --> server connection info there you´ll find: bytes sent & recieved by server.

[Ultran]

Sorry, let me clarify. *I* know that TSS was not exceeding my bandwidth because I was checking the summary in the Admin page frequently up until my web hosting company shut down the server. What I need is some way for it to report the usage to my web hosting company so *they* can see that I am not exceeding my bandwidth.

[Timeless]

You need evidence?

maybe someone hacked your server and has stolen bandwidth/traffic.

[Ultran]

You need evidence?

maybe someone hacked your server and has stolen bandwidth/traffic.

Like I said, *I* had been checking the bandwidth usage frequently prior to my web hosting company shutting down my server. I was, and still am WAY below my bandwidth cap. Last check I had use 0.0089GB for the month, out of a 170GB allowance.(and this is 16 days into my billing cycle) Even if someone had managed to hack my TSS, and got all their friends to log on and, and used it for a mass phone sex session, I HIGHLY doubt that anyone would be able to rack up 170GB in data transfers in less than two days.

The reason my hosting company gave me that they shut down my TS server was that they were unable to monitor TS bandwidth usage. I am looking for a way that my hosting company can monitor the bandwidth usage of my server. I figure if I can provide them a method to monitor my usage they will let me start my server again, since I was not coming anywhere close to exceeding my bandwidth.

[Bastian]

Well, if your hosting company is not able to track all traffic caused by a single customer they simply....suck. People that offer servers where you can host whatever you want should have a bandwith tracker that monitors the whole traffic caused by a customer. This is standard.

Maybe they actually HAVE such a thing and just don't want you to host TeamSpeak servers. Who knows?

In both cases I would suggest to look around for a new hosting company unless your current hoster offers you a good price to compensate for their incompetence.

However, once the teamspeak server is stopped or simply crashes, all the traffic data is reset to zero. So the only way to get around that would be a script that constantly reads the traffic consumption using the TS2 servers build in telnet interface and sends it to your hoster or a tracking script.

[Ultran]

Well, if your hosting company is not able to track all traffic caused by a single customer they simply....suck. People that offer servers where you can host whatever you want should have a bandwith tracker that monitors the whole traffic caused by a customer. This is standard.

Maybe they actually HAVE such a thing and just don't want you to host TeamSpeak servers. Who knows?

In both cases I would suggest to look around for a new hosting company unless your current hoster offers you a good price to compensate for their incompetence.

However, once the teamspeak server is stopped or simply crashes, all the traffic data is reset to zero. So the only way to get around that would be a script that constantly reads the traffic consumption using the TS2 servers build in telnet interface and sends it to your hoster or a tracking script.

Unfortunately I prepaid 2 years for my hosting, and still have almost a year left. They told me they can't monitor TSS, but for all I know they are lying. Anyone happen to have a Linux script, or the ability to hammer one out that I could send to my hosting company, and say "See you *can* monitor my usage."? I managed to set my TSS up on my own, but it took me half a day cause when I started the only Linux commands I knew were cd, mv, and ls. So I don't know the first thing about writing Linux scripts. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[mooxe]

Sounds like they are just to lazy or not expierienced enough. They just need to monitor whatever ports your using.

[Peter]

So I don't know the first thing about writing Linux scripts.

cat /proc/net/dev - and there you have the desired total bandwith used by the individual devices, since they were started (usually on system bootup).