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How to view bandwidth usage in WHM?
You would find that there are plenty of options in the cPanel and WHM screens where you would find the bandwidth usage information. For example you can find the information after logging into WHM and then going to Account Information and then choosing the menu View Bandwidth Usage.
It is always better if you view bandwidth usage in WHM and cPanel. This is because the bandwidth usage report that is generated in WHM will include a detail study of the total bandwidth that is used by the websites as well as the number of incoming requests.
You would find that there are plenty of options in the cPanel and WHM screens where you would find the bandwidth usage information. For example you can find the information after logging into WHM and then going to Account Information and then choosing the menu View Bandwidth Usage. It will give you the complete account of the total bandwidth used. Also you can further search the Limit Bandwidth Usage in the WHM or go to cPanel and then go to the Stats option and find out the “Monthly Bandwidth Transfer”. You can also find out day to day bandwidth usage by going to cPanel and then to Logs and from there to Bandwidth and here click on “Select the domain” and then choose “Bandwidth By Day”.
It is always better that you use the bandwidth measurement report generated by cPanel and WHM because they are more comprehensive in comparison to the log analysis programs which are good for having information about the referrals, hit statistics and so on.
There are other advantages of using WHM for seeing the bandwidth usage. Here you can set the bandwidth processing cycles as per your wish. For this you need to go to the Server Configuration tab and there choose the Statistics Software Configuration Screen. From here go the Bandwidth Processing Frequency screen which is under the Schedule Configuration screen. Here you can set the date as you desire.
The advantage of doing this is that you can balance the server performance with this reporting and with this statistics you can have accurate bandwidth usage and plan the bandwidth usage for the users accordingly.
If you want the usage information to be up-to-date, then you can process the statistics of an individual user for any particular time period also. For this you can go to the Server Configuration and from there go to the Statistics Software Configuration screen in the WHM. It is located under the Process Statistics for User heading. It will give you accurate information about any individuals data usage.