Saving cPanel’s disk space usage with wordpress blog

June 11, 2011

I am always saving my CPANEL’s disk space usage for some reasons. In order for me to save a little of my disk space usage I will host my photos somewhere in a free photo hosting site and I will just use the photo URL then post it in my site using IMG SRC code. And not just that, I am also resizing my photos before hosting it so as to help those free photo hosting companies not to be loaded that much. Though, I am willing to upgrade whenever my freebies will be over so as to save my photos.

Now, going back to saving disk space usage, my simple technique is to empty my WP_COMMENTMETA and my WP_LINKS (because my friend’s lists are saved on one of my pages). I can always do it using PHPMYADMIN in my CPANEL. After that, I will empty my WP_POSTMETA because this is just the record of my post revisions (if I am correct). In this screenshot, I have 685 posts and I have 437 POSTMETA. If I will empty that one, I can surely save at least 47.2 KiB in my CPANEL’s disk space usage [my sample here is my WRDP14(11)].

But before doing anything in my PHPMYADMIN, I will first save XML file of my blog(s) just in case I need to restore all of my important articles! It’s better to be safe than sorry so I need to secure my blog files first before deleting just anything that I want.

And in this CPANEL that I have, I hosted more than 20 blogs of which I have files since 2007-2008 but my disk space usage is just 567.44MB. Aside from these things, I am also sacrificing a lot (as in a LOT) in order for me to save much with my disk space because my resource in renewing my web hosting is so limited right now!