Bandwidth is how much data is transferred. Disk space is the amount of storage you are taking up on the server's hard drive.
What kind of site do you run? Does your site allow uploads from users?
Do you use whm/cpanel reseller account - can you change that particular site's space quota on your own?
If not, may need to change plans or move to a new host - 500 megs these days isn't alot.
It's a reseller acct [my own] so I can change it. [cPanel]
As for uploads, that is what I'm looking at today - it's a directory
with just links, no articles. It's a big db but nothing that has made it
reach the disk quota before.
You probably have a lot temporary files.
Rebooting the server may help, otherwise you need to dig and find out which directory takes up disk space.
Thanks, I removed the temp files but it didn't make much of a difference.
Something made it jump and I haven't figured that out yet.
Probably 10 years worth of logs .... maybe a backup or two....
500MB? That's nothing even if in today's world most of the data is splatted into tables. That's only one video.
Your provider may have just got stricter on monitoring space - I know hostgator now provides clear information on CPanel on bandwidth and file limits (to my knowledge, most sites are more concerned with # of files than anything as that can be a resource drain on system maintenance)
What do you pay? One loony a month? You get more space with free hosts.
No the logs were always managed and kept clean.
I've never understood the data/bandwidth numbers, I just found what worked and set it
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Update, While looking through the FTP/cPanel for files I found the Link.tpl file
was missing as well ? wth
So spike in data usage and a missing file? No one else has access to admin or host.
I have upped the limits and replaced the file - currently all working again.
But that missing file has me stumped!
