2.5.3.3. Ways to increase disk space

Increase size

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(from 20 to 240 GB)" } dedicated@{ shape: rounded, label: "🖥 Dedicated
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The following methods are available:

Increase inodes

What are inodes

Inode is a file system object that contains information about a file or directory (each file or directory is 1 inode, regardless of their size). On shared hosting, the inode limit can be from 200 000 to 400 000 in current plans. On business hosting, the inode limit is only restricted by the Linux file system (approximately 1 million inodes are available for every 16 GB of disk space).

First, check if there are any unnecessary files and directories in your hosting account that can be safely deleted. Deleting unnecessary files and directories will free up the inodes they use. To determine which directory or site is using the most space or inodes, you can use the following tools:

If it is not possible to delete files and directories, you can increase the number of inodes.

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(from 200 000 to 400 000 inodes)" } business@{ shape: rounded, label: "☁️ Business hosting
(from ≈1 000 000 to ≈9 000 000 inodes)" } vps@{ shape: rounded, label: "💻 VPS
(from ≈1 250 000 to ≈15 000 000 inodes)" } dedicated@{ shape: rounded, label: "🖥 Dedicated
(depends on chosen drives)" } shared-->business business-->vps shared-->vps business-->dedicated vps-->dedicated

The following methods are available:

Using storage

Attention!

This method does not increase the disk space of your hosting account and is only suitable for experienced users.

Instead of increasing the disk space of your hosting account, you can move some of your static files (images, videos, backups, and other data) to a standalone storage service. This will save you money, as storage services are cheaper than hosting, are billed daily, and offer more disk space.

The main disadvantage of this approach is that in order for sites on the hosting to interact with the storage (save files to it, embed links to them in their pages, etc.), it will be necessary to hire a developer to organize the integration.

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