Posted by Toby A Inkster on 02/01/07 10:46

Nu wrote:

> I can't find how to do that. Can it be done in PHP, htaccess, etc.

Firstly, are you on a shared host? If so, then ensuring quality of
service is really your hosting provider's job. If one site on a server is
using up a massive portion of the server's capacity (with regards to
bandwidth, CPU, memory or disk space) then this impacts *all* the sites on
that particular server, so it's their responsiblity to either throttle that
site or request that its administrator purchases a more expensive hosting
package so that it can be moved onto a server with fewer other sites.

If you're on a dedicated host and don't have root access, then get root
access (change your hosting provider if need be).

If you're on a dedicated host with root access, then probably the best
option is to use Apache's mod_cband module <http://mod-cband.com/>. With
this you can add to your httpd.conf something like this:

<VirtualHost>
...
# limit speed of this vhost to 1Mbit/s, 10 request/s, 30 open connections
CBandSpeed 1Mbps 10 30
# in addition every remote host connecting to this vhost
# will be limited to 100kbit/s, 3 request/s, 3 open connections
CBandRemoteSpeed 100kbps 3 3
</VirtualHost>

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