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Bandwidth on subdomains which don't exist

adeyjones

Hi all,

I am just currently going through the accounts on my server and doing a bit of housekeeping and looking at how much bandwidth each account is using.

I have come to an account that is showing bandwidth for 3 domains:

HTTP - domain.com - 1.66GB

HTTP - domain.domain.com - 551.39 MB

HTTP - domain1.domain.com - 681.62 MB

I have looked in domains and there are no subdomains created for domain.com and I have also looked in DNS editor and there are no DNS entries relating to domain or domain1 subdomains so I don't understand why there is 1GB+ bandwidth going through these 2 URLs - how is this possible and how can I prevent it?

Using AWS I pay per Gb of bandwidth and this is only the 2nd account of many I have looked in to so the others could potentially have the same issue and I would like to stop it.

Thanks.

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  • adeyjones

    Edit - I have now found A records in DNS Zone Manager via WHM which weren't showing up "Zone Editor" via cPanel for domain.domain.com and www.domain.domain.com and domain1.domain.com and www.domain1.domain.com so I have deleted all of those.

    But my next question would be how there has been what i'd consider to be a high size of bandwidth to these URLs which only redirect to the main domain? And I don't think any human would have entered those URLs to access the website so would they be bots and crawlers?

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  • adeyjones

    Edit - I am now on my third account and this one also has those rogue subdomains - it appears that when the account was created it had a primary domain, then additional domains were added (i.e. .com and .co.uk and .org etc) and with each domain added it created A records for the subdomains of the primary.

    Is this default behaviour? So the account which had 3 domains had the 2 subdomains accruing bandwidth, this next account had 2 domains and has 1 subdomain accruing bandwidth etc...

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  • cPRex Jurassic Moderator

    Hey there!  Could you share what some of the specific subdomains are?  I would then be able to tell you if that was something that was created by cPanel automatically or not.

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