Limiting the Amount of Resources a Site Can Consume

By default, new web sites that you set up without the help of domain templates, are allowed to consume unlimited amounts of bandwidth (data transfer) and disk space.

To limit the amount of resources this site can consume:

  1. Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
  2. Click the domain name you need.
  3. Click the Limits icon.
  4. Adjust the resource usage allotments as required:
    1. you can notify the domain owner and suspend the domain/web site after a grace period until you receive the payment (not so good for your business, but if you are going to follow that way, see the Suspending and Unsuspending Hosting Accounts and Web Sites section),

      OR

    2. upgrade the account for your customer (see the instructions on upgrading accounts in the Modifying User Accounts section).
  5. Click OK.

To protect your site from DoS attacks and to ensure that your site responds promptly when there are many visitors, you can limit the number of simultaneous connections to the site and limit the amount of bandwidth that visitors to the site can consume:

  1. Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
  2. Click the domain name you need.
  3. Click Performance.
  4. Select the Switch on bandwidth limiting check box, and in the Maximum network use (KB/S) box, type the maximum speed in kilobytes per second that a site can share among all its connections. For example: 128.
  5. Select the Switch on connections limiting check box, and in the Connections limited to box, type the maximum number of simultaneous connections. For example: 100.
  6. Click OK.