Odd Traffic Suspension

[vovka351]

It appears my site has been suspended for too much traffic....
10 gb of traffic from one IP address? 72.9.228.157
Whois reveals little.

I know my site isn't particularly popular, and I find this a very odd occurance.
Aside from blocking the IP address, is there anything I can do?

Edit: I've blocked them, however, my account is still down, and I have no clue who they actually are. Any help on either subject matter would be quite helpful

 

[descalzo]

Marriotts Ridge High School
Marriottsville, MD

 

[vovka351]

That... is concerning.
I don't even have anything useful to them.

It seems a lot of their downloads were mp3 files... 10 gb of them? for a school? That's like... all the computer science classes decided to simultaneously download every file on the site.

Gonna be pissed if I get a ****storm about something stupid tomorrow.

 

[galaxyAbstractor]

You might have been an victim of Bandwidth Attack.

Bandwidth Attack, in essence, entails large numbers of individuals intently visiting a target site and downloading pages or requesting vast amounts of information--usually images, with the intent that these requests will effect a rapid drain of the website's bandwidth, exhausting the site's quota so that it goes offline.
For example, if 100 people continuously download/request a 10kb file simultaneously for 12 hours, this would drain approximately 40 gigabytes of the site's bandwidth. Assuming that the target site only has 40G of bandwidth per month, it would go offline 12 hours later when the bandwidth threshold is exceeded. The website will remain off-line until the following month, when the bandwidth quota will be reset.

If I would be you, I would contact that school, so they could look it up. Also, implementing a system to check how many times a page is accessed by a specific user and redirect them somewhere else if they access too fast is a good idea, but hard to achieve