AWSTATS massive compared to CPanel Bandwidth?!

In cpanel my monthly transfer is 3tb.
In Cpanel bandwidth section it states 3tb.
However, in AWSTATS it says bandwidth is more like 30tb?!
11,000 unique vistors and 65,000,000 hits!! WTF - hotlinking dot com or what.
Any idea why the difference in stats?
I want to buy a server so I need to know why bandwidth is so messed up!

If you have ssh/shell access on your account you could run the following command to read the access_log file and count the MB used:


Aside from that you could ask your hosting company to regenerate your graphs, they have access to a command that will recreate your site stats from the access_log information

Additional this may be worth reading http://docs1.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/v...thDiscrepancies#LogProcessingBandwidthMeasure

i had this problem when using netfirms awstats, it was using so much data they ended up closing my account without my permission and then said they couldnt restore any of my files