[ Thanks to Falko
Timme for this link. ]
“In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure
mod_cband on an Apache2 web server. mod_cband is an Apache 2 module
which provides bandwidth quota and throttling. It solves the
problem of limiting users’ and virtualhosts’ bandwidth usage. The
current version can set virtualhosts’ and users’ bandwidth quotas,
maximal download speed, requests-per-second speed and the maximal
number of simultanous IP connections.“mod_cband can be used by hosting companies, which would like to
limit data transfer for their users, such as ’10 GB of traffic per
month…'”