How to view resource usage and usage statistics in cPanel?

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Below you will find different tools that will give you information about disk space and bandwidth usage for your hosting account.

In your control panel you will see, in the Statistics box on the right, the current Disk Space usage under Disk Usage and the Bandwidth usage under Bandwidth.

To view disk space and bandwidth usage in detail you will use the following tools:

Disk Space Usage

The consumed disk space can be viewed from the Disk Usage tool, inside the Files box.

This tool will show you the space usage for each main area of your hosting plan.

Below, you will find the space used in each directory or folder of your account. You can expand each directory with the > symbol and, if you click on a directory, the File Manager will open to view your content in detail.

Bandwidth Usage

Bandwidth usage can be seen, in general, from the Bandwidth tool, inside the Metrics box.

And, if you want to see bandwidth usage in more detail, you can do so from the Awstats tool, which is also located in the Metrics box.

Bandwidth Tool

In this tool you will see the total bandwidth consumed so far and the limit of the hosting plan.

Below, you will see the consumption broken down by services and time segments.

A little further down, you will see in more detail the bandwidth consumed by each main service of your hosting plan each month.

This overview will help you determine if consumption is steady or if there is a consumption spike that you consider suspicious. This can be indicative of a virus in the account.

Awstats Tool

If you want to see bandwidth usage in the most detailed possible way, the best tool is Awstats.

If your website opens in browsers as **https://**yourdomain.com then access the SSL version of your domain. If, instead, the website opens as **http://**yourdomain.com (non-secure mode) then access the domain without SSL.

Upon entering the tool you will see several areas with information about bandwidth consumption:

1. You will see the date the metrics of this tool were last updated.
2. You can choose different periods for it to show you the consumption at that time.
3. In the center, you will see the consumption for each month. This section is the first place to check if a suspicious difference in consumption is detected compared to previous months.

Similarly, Awstats will show you bandwidth consumption in various ways; in each section the most important value is always Traffic.

In the section shown in the image below, you will see consumption by country; this is another area where you can determine if there is unusual bandwidth usage based on where it originates.

Next you will find consumption by IP connections. In general, this section often shows unusual usage. Normally, you should find even consumption across all connections.

Below, you will find the consumption generated by Robots, Bots, Crawlers, etc. This section is very important to review; these bots are the second most common cause of high bandwidth usage.

Next you will see the most important section of all when reviewing bandwidth consumption in your account. In this section you will see the bandwidth usage by specific site resources (script execution, images, videos, etc.).

This is the most frequent cause of bandwidth usage in your account: visits to the website itself. Of all the resources on your website, images or similar multimedia files almost always consume the most bandwidth.

Finally, you will find the Download section, which will show consumption from direct downloads you may have on your website.

By reviewing each section or area of this tool you can find what consumes the most bandwidth on your website. You can even detect suspicious consumption or misuse of your website. If that is the case, do not hesitate to contact us so we can review your account.