My bandwidth is exceeded
Bandwidth is the amount of data transferred between your site and its visitors. If you exceed your plan's monthly allowance, your site may be temporarily limited until the next cycle. Here is how to understand and manage it.
Why it happens:
- A genuine surge in visitors (great news, but check your plan fits).
- Large files (video, high-resolution images, downloads) served repeatedly.
- Hotlinking, where other sites embed your images and consume your bandwidth.
- Bots or scrapers hitting the site heavily.
What to do:
- Check your bandwidth usage in the panel at my.dirhamaday.ae to see the trend and what is consuming it.
- Enable hotlink protection to stop other sites using your bandwidth.
- Optimise images and enable caching so pages transfer less data.
- Use a CDN (such as Cloudflare) to offload static content.
- Block abusive bots if they are the cause.
If your traffic has genuinely grown beyond the plan, that is a good problem: contact our 24/7 UAE team on WhatsApp +971 58 553 6767 or support@dirhamaday.ae and we will recommend a plan with a higher allowance. We can also confirm exactly what drove the usage.
Still need a hand? Our UAE-based team is here 24/7.