How much actual webspace is on a dedicated server

Hi I have a dedicated server dual xeon and I am receiving notices that my Disc drive space is 85% used up. I think my websites total about 9 Gigs of space..... does this sound normal? How much actual webspace is normal on a dedicated server? I only have about 30 sites on there...

any help would be appreciated...

 

Some space is used by the system, lot's of space can be used by backups

 

May be you are receiving the message for particular partition on your server. Which OS installed on your dedicated server?

 

If its a linux server post the output of "du -sh" from /

 

I can only say something based on my experiences...for me that is in a normal range? What do the other guys think?

markus

 

It could be log files taking up a lot of space, but it is hard to say since you didn't tell us anything about your server.

 

Try to delete logs files

 

Hi,
Thanks for your replies, Its a Intel Xeon 3210 (Quad Core) running CENTOS 4.7
4 Gigs of Ram. No its not log files but I do seem to have huge webalizer, awstats and analog stats files totaling close to 1000 Meg on some sites...Is that normal? should I be deleting these stats files?

 

Are you using these stats? Planning to use?
Some people are running these tools without intension to use it.
If you're planning to do something with these huge logs - you can just compress it and setup logrotate-like tool to do this automatically

 

You can also download these stats to your local machine and then delete them from the server.
Control panels have option to carry out this.

 

What is the output of this command:

df -h

?

 

Been there, done that, have the t-shirt. Seems a lot of users who ask here just want a simple "this is whats wrong and this is how you fix it"

 

With the large capacity storage available today, there is no way you should be running out of drive space on your dedicated server with only 30 sites. How much space do you have allocated to each site? Is it a managed server or do you manage it yourself?

 

Hi,
Its a managed server.....
No I never look at any of the stats files.
I am not sure where you allocate space to sites....in my whm the packages I create seem to be about bandwith rather than disk space. Should I turn off my Webalizer? would it speed up the server if I did?

 

Webalizer is a stats and if you are not using the stats then you can disable it for your domain. There is no concern between server speed and stats. But if you have high traffic web site, it may take some time to generate the stats for your web site and during that period, it may put slight load on your server.

 

It looks like partition space issues..

 

I have about 50 sites on there doing about 900Gig data transfer/mth so maybe I should try disconnecting all the stats... Yeah I was wondering if maybe they just made the partition too small or something...

 

Again, df -h will show you usage on each mapped file system. You have stated this is a managed server though, so I would think these kinds of questions should be dealt with by your management company.

 

run df -h and post the output here

 

I did eventually contact them and I gues it was a setup glitch, the partition was created too small, so its fixed now. But I am concerned with the stats issue. If I turn off all the stats collecting programs will this speed up the server at all?