PrestaShop Admin & Bandwidth

[designdpi]

Hi all, whenever I work on a new PS site I always host it on my development server until ready to go live.

 

This applies to my current project running PS 1.6.0.8 where I am facing a really curious problem, one which I've never encountered (or at least been aware of) with previous versions.

 

The issue is bandwidth.  Last month I went to my website to find 509 bandwidth limit exceeded.  I was surprised to say the least, so I did a bit of digging in my Control Panel and I found that PS Admin was causing an obscene amount of traffic both in requests and bandwidth... screen grab attached:

 

It was primarily the admin folder (67% of ALL traffic), but also quite a few hits from js/tiny_mce/tinymce.min.js  admin/ajax.php and admin/ajax-tab.php (accounting for around 5%).

 

So my question, what the heck is going on, and how can I get PS admin to go easy on my server?  We're not even half way into the month and I'm already worried I'll be running out of bandwidth very soon

Has anyone else encountered this?

[El Patron]

You can look at BoZoom, out of the box it will CCC .css and the module will learn your javascript, this will allow you to 'move to bottom' javascript and CCC .js.  This will help reduce your bandwidth but also significantly speed up your back office.

[designdpi]

Many thanks for the suggestion El Patron, although that looks a very useful module which I will most certainly look into further, I don't think it is the solution to the question posed.

Namely, why if logged in to the back office for a couple of hours, are there 1,000's of hits generated by the back office and a ridiculous amounts of bandwidth used.

[El Patron]

I certainly understand your consternation from the report you posted.  I've not seen/heard of this at this this issue with your level of detail.  I'd look for 3rd party module that has gone rogue in your back office and try to use native ps profiler (google that) to see what resourses back office is using.  

 

There is currently only one 1.6 that I recommend and that is 1.6.0.9, we are testing 1.6.0.14 but are finding theme compatibility issues so for our upgrade work we are sticking with 1.6.0.9.  In other words you are running older version off beta, while 1.6.0.9 is considered beta, it's a pretty sound one.

 

Good  luck!

[designdpi]

Just a little update. 

I am at my wits end... my site is currently offline 509 bandwidth exceeded AGAIN!  Thanks to PS continually reloading the back office.

 

In less than 12 hours (only a couple of which logged in to the back office), over 5,000 requests, and over a GB of data transferred.  The back office has killed my server once again.

 

After hours of searching Google, Stackoverflow, I stumbled upon this link http://www.gibni.com/solved-prestashop-backoffice-login-refresh

 

An old post, but this sounds like my problem?  Only thing is, there's no reference to that code anymore in login.php, and I can't seem to locate it anywhere else?

Really struggling with this now, and I can't even again access to the site to at least investigate the problem.