incoming bandwidth calculation

[evtimii]

I see a big difference in the bandwidth that is calculated by DirectAdmin and the bandwidth that is shown as used on the VPS control panel.

On this post it says:

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=253

What DirectAdmin does count:
- Apache Usage: Any data sent out for a request on that Users domain. Logging for /~username traffic is also counted.

Is there any way for DirectAdmin to count the incoming bandwidth ? For example a picture downloaded from another server using php ?

 

[mr.applesauce]

Your vps is reading data from the interface. Directadmin only looks at things like website, email, ftp ... etc

There is no way for it to know what bw was used without a log that it can read from.

 

[evtimii]

I'm interested in counting of the incoming bandwidth of the webserver (apache). As I understood, "Apache Usage: Any data sent out for a request on that Users domain." this means that only the outgoing bandwidth of Apache is calculated ?

Yes, you are correct - the vps is reading data from the interface - I used that as an example that the total bandwidth of my VPS is not correctly calculated by DirectAdmin, and I'm sure that it's the incoming bandwidth - the php application that is used consumes high amounts of incoming bandwidth.

 

[zEitEr]

If you do wget in a shell or in scripts, if you run custombuild to update your software, or apt-get/aptitude/yum, if your PHP get some files from internet, all this traffic goes without being counted with directadmin, and that is not the end. To say it in other words, directadmin counts only that traffic, which is logged as it has been already mentioned by user mr.applesauce