Wordpress installation on digitalocean eating the server storage

Hello there,

You can also look into loading WordPress content from an external droplet/server or have the static content minimized to what the actual site is using, e.g do not keep other images, or files as backups as this will consume the available disk space.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-store-wordpress-assets-on-digitalocean-spaces

Regards

Hi @Nour,

The other disk space that’s taken is not directly in your Website’s folder. It could be mails, logs, some dump files indicated more errors and so on.

The best way is to check here for pointers:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/28-no-space-left-on-device-error

Additionally, what I use in situations like this is some useful find commands:

• Finds you to 10 biggest files - find /-type f -printf "%s\t%p\n" | sort -n | tail -n 10. You can easily find the 50 biggest files by changing the number 10 to 50 at the end of the command
• Find files bigger than a certain amount of MBs sudo find / -type f -size +500M -exec ls -lh {} \; In the example it’s above 500M but again you can easily change it to whatever you like

Hello,

What I could suggest is following the steps from the answer here on how to find the largest directory or file that is consuming most of your disk space:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/28-no-space-left-on-device-error

It is possible that your MySQL database has grown a lot too.

Feel free to share the output of the commands listed in the answer above.

Best,

Bobby