Bandwidth calculation

LTniger

So, I wanna ask some advice/help/guidance on bandwidth calculation. I know that it is possible to get somewhat accurate BW calculation for Apache vhost from access and error logs. But how about FTP bandwidth?

It would be immensely helpful if someone who have serious experience with control panels for shared hosting provide some guidance on this topic.

cazrz

I parse the ftp log files. The easiest to do this is if you are using proftpd. The extended/custom log format will make it easy. I haven't check panels yet if they do calculate the transferlog of ftp. You only need ftp? or sftp as well?

LTniger

Shit. No other ways except manual log parsing? That would be a hell to join Apache + FTP. Any scripts in the wild?

I need Apache and FTP(S).

cazrz

You can write a simple script for parsing.

seriesn

@LTniger said:
Shit. No other ways except manual log parsing? That would be a hell to join Apache + FTP. Any scripts in the wild?

I need Apache and FTP(S).

An idea, maybe, calculate traffic for the specific ports?
https://superuser.com/questions/604998/monitor-tcp-traffic-on-specific-port

LTniger

@seriesn said:

@LTniger said:
Shit. No other ways except manual log parsing? That would be a hell to join Apache + FTP. Any scripts in the wild?

I need Apache and FTP(S).

An idea, maybe, calculate traffic for the specific ports?
https://superuser.com/questions/604998/monitor-tcp-traffic-on-specific-port

Not an option, I host multiple users per server. Log parsing seems is the only option here. Now the burden to write a script or to find one.

cazrz

Try awstats
https://awstats.sourceforge.io/docs/awstats_faq.html#FTP

vimalware

Unverified, but I think Virtualmin does bandwidth monitoring.
take a look around https://github.com/virtualmin/virtualmin-gpl/blob/master/bw.pl

niraeth

@vimalware said:
Unverified, but I think Virtualmin does bandwidth monitoring.
take a look around https://github.com/virtualmin/virtualmin-gpl/blob/master/bw.pl

Can confirm they do. It includes ftp traffic as well.