Bandwidth limit exceeded for an account in cPanel

Check in the awstats of the cPanel, for having the list of http request. Also check the apache logs for the IPs, block the IPs in the firewall that makes large number of requests. For temporarily activating the account, we can increase the bandwidth limit or change the bandwidth limit usage value(not recommended) For changing bandwidth usage value. 1) edit the value (reduce) in file /var/cpanel/bandwidth.cache for example before changing: root@server [/var/cpanel/bandwidth.cache]# cat user_name 7571093900 root@server [/var/cpanel/bandwidth.cache]# cat domain_name 7569243093 after changing: root@server [/var/cpanel/bandwidth.cache]# cat user_name 5571093900 root@server [/var/cpanel/bandwidth.cache]# cat domain_name 5569243093 2) click on change in bandwidth limit usage via whm.