[HELP]530 MB of ghost usage o.O

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    i have a 1 GB hosting plan. currently, i only have wordpress installed thrice, and a few extra txt files. all in all, i don't think i have anything more than 100 MB of files. yet, my disk space usage is shown as 636 MB. where could the extra 530 MB be going??
    help would be appreciated :)
     
    boxieblue, Jul 31, 2009 IP
  2. RHS-Chris

    RHS-Chris Well-Known Member

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    Sometimes the quota files do get corrupted, or, they are updated at a scheduled interval. Could also be mail, logs, and small other things that are taking up the space. I would have your host check into the usage for you, so they can tell you exactly where the usage is.
     
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  3. boxieblue

    boxieblue Peon

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    thanks Chris. i figured out what the problem was. my mail client. i had 141,605 emails waiting in my inbox. 600 MB in total :eek:
     
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    Better clean up your emails.

    Personally I use Gmail for emails rather than as its more secure and you dont loose any space etc :D
     
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    gbit Active Member

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    same case is with me I have wp installed on my hosting web space but quota has been showing more than 368MB.I don't care as I have unlimited space but it needs serious attention.I guess the space is been consumed by logs of applications like hosting control panel stats.
     
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    @Gbit: see the "disk space usage" from your cpanel, if u haven't already.
     
    boxieblue, Aug 1, 2009 IP
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    kailash Well-Known Member

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    I believe you have catch-all enabled for your domain. It's better to disable it.

    Kailash
     
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    what s catch all? :confused:
     
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  9. kailash

    kailash Well-Known Member

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    catch-all means, all unrouted emails for your domain will be delivered to catch-all account. For example, if you have catah-all set as info@yourdomain and someone sends email to test@yourdomain then this message will be received in info@yourdomain.

    May I know which hosting control panel are you using?

    Kailash
     
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    i am using indianets.com :)

    what u said makes sense. that might explain why the emails landed up in the mailbox, when i had actually directed them to an email id on my domain that didn't exist. (something like "domain@domain.com" which hasn't been created yet)
     
    boxieblue, Aug 2, 2009 IP