user bandwidth

[Matt]

By default your machine should be set to US Eastern.

What do you mean you are redlining your usage? Did you ever change the default hosting plans or allowed transfer in your WHM after you migrated to the dedicated?

[atcspaul]

i dont know what you mean matt? could you check for me or let me know what to do. my understanding was you all took care of everything that needs to be done. by redlining i mean i have ussed up almost all bandwidth i have available

[Matt]

According to what? The specification of your dedicated server which should be 1500 to 3000 gigs of transfer or according to the hosting package you see in your cPanel?

[atcspaul]

when i look at the cpanel for motorbicycling.com on the left side is a couple bars. maybe i am not reading it right or something. it has a bar for both bandwidth ussage and also diskspace ussage and they are both way up thier. however when i go into the other site i have it says i have tons of room left so i am not sure how to interpet it. both are on my dedicated server. i hope i am worried and panicing for nothing

[Matt]

Why not use your WHM to upgrade the site? If your server comes with 2000 gigs of transfer then if that same server had 2 sites on it, I would allocate 1000 gigs to each site, or, 1500 to one and 500 to the other based on each site's individual needs making sure you do not over-allocate what your dedicated server comes with so that you do not get billed for transfer overages.

[atcspaul]

this is the first time i have ever been into whm. can you tell me what i should do and how to do it please.

[Matt]

The WHM welcome letter should explain how to make packages in WHM. Do you still have that?

[atcspaul]

the letter i got gave me the passwords and stuff but not how to use whm. i just read it again

[atcspaul]

i found where i can change the limits but it is in megs. it says i have 40000 meg limit so i would change that to how many megs? sorry matt as you know i am not to smart with this computer stuff

[Matt]

1024 megs is 1 gig in real life.

In hosting however we usually use 1000 megs = 1 gig so if it says 4000 megs that is only 4 gigs that you have allocated to the site.

I'd set it to 100000 for now which will give you 100 gigs which should be more than enough for quite some time.