A lot of hosting providers have alternate servers that don’t have as much in the way of resources but have huge disk storage volumes to accommodate customers that have larger sites. Some of your customers may have a legitimate need for a large amount of disk space, and therefore you may be unable to keep the disk space usage on your server at a reasonable level. By doing so you are also preserving the integrity of your business from a legal standpoint. exe, etc, and have your customers remove them from the server. It wouldn’t hurt to run a few locate commands to find common files associated with copyright violations, like. Most hosts have specific rules about the hosting of non-website-related backups and copyrighted material, but don’t proactively scan their servers for it. This tool will clean up the nameserver configuration file and remove all duplicate. If you have the backup feature in cPanel enabled, chances are your users are storing the backups on the server instead.
Enter your cPanel username in the Username text box. How To Free Disk Space On cPanel - WHM Server. Check for contrabandĪs a hosting provider you should have a Terms of Service that specifically tells your customers what they can (or rather cannot) store on your server. In WHM, there is a tool called DNS Cleanup. Select the cPanel & WHM product that you wish to log in to: To log in to the cPanel interface, perform the following steps: Enter the IP address or domain and the 2083 service port in your preferred browser (for example, ). You can terminate accounts in WHM > Terminate an Account or using the command /scripts/killacct (y or n will indicate whether to save the DNS records) 10. The -h flag tells df to use human-readable units instead of spitting out confusing. It provides more or less the same information as Disk Usage, but it’s helpful if you want to start your investigation on the command line instead of in WHM. Check out WHM > List Suspended Accounts (or run the command ls /var/cpanel/suspended) and look for suspended accounts that you may be able to remove from the server to free up space. First, we’ll use the df tool to check disk space on the server’s hard drives. If you have a larger churn rate you probably have some user accounts laying around on your server that you don’t need. This will allow you to see the other options on setting the reserved space for your partitions.*** 9. ***You will want to use the man command on the tune2fs command before you use it.