traffic exceeded threshold
Can someone explain this email to me. I have no idea what it is saying as I am not a tech person.
How do I fix this so that it does not take up all of my cpu (is that what it called)
Here is what Linode wrote to me:
Linode Alert - Outbound Transfer Quota
Your account, with the username selfsoothingrelaxation, has exceeded the transfer quota threshold for notification. It has used 4620GB of 4368GB or 105.77%.
This is an automated message, please do not respond to this email. If you have questions, please open a support ticket.
This is not meant as a warning or a representation that you are misusing your resources.
You can access the Linode Manager at
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The message that you posted, means that your Linode has used more than 4 terabytes of outgoing data transfer, this is data transferred over the internet from your Linode to other users. This could occur if you have a server that people are downloading a lot of data from, video streams, file transfers, or any number of tasks.
The email isn't indicating that you've used more resources than you should be using, only more resources than your Linode comes with. In this case, internet data transfer. You've used 252GB more than your allowance, so you'll be receiving an overage charge on your data transfer. This will be $0.01/GB according to the guide Linode has and at the calculated amount of overage transfer used, you'll be charged an extra $2.52 at the end of your billing cycle.
I hope this was helpful for you.
Blake