Huge disk space

  • Resolved Frank

    (@phasar40)


    12 months ago

    A day or two after installing this plugin I got an email from my host saying I was using 107% of my allowed disk space. I was using less than half before I installed this. I deactivated and deleted the plugin but the problem continues. Where are all these cached file? I’m going to have to manually delete them. Seems to me that should have been automatic when I deactivated and deleted the plugin

    • This topic was modified 12 months ago by Frank.
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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    Hello @phasar40

    I am sorry about the issue you are experiencing and I am happy to help!
    So, some hosting providers have node restrictions or some shared servers, with limited disk space.
    The issue you are having may occur if you are caching everything to Disk. Depending on the website, and if you are using Disk for Page Cache, minify, Object Caching, DB Caching, etc, you can potentially fill up the disk space.

    The cached files are located in the /wp-content/cache/ folder so you can delete the entire /cache/ folder and see if this helps!
    W3 Total Cache offers the ability to use Memory based caching like Redis or Memcached so I would suggest checking with your hosting provider if those are available on the server, or if you can install the Redisphp or Memcached PHP extension, and use memory-based caching instead of Disk.

    I hope this helps!

    Thanks!

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