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How much disk space does your hosting Plan Really Need?

Nov 3, 2022

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What size of disk space do you require?

Our Hosting Plans

  • Starter plan: 10GB and 1 WordPress website
  • Pro plan: 20 GB and two WordPress websites
  • Small Business: 30GB and 3 WordPress sites
  • Business 2: 40 GB as well as 10 WordPress websites
  • Business 3: 50GB of storage and 20 WordPress websites
  • Business 4 60GB, 40 WordPress websites
  • Enterprise 1: 100GB and 60 WordPress websites
  • Enterprise 2 with 120GB and 80 WordPress websites
  • Enterprise 3: 200GB and 120 WordPress websites
  • The Enterprise 4, which includes 250GB, and 150 WordPress websites

Average WordPress Site Usage

Let's examine some data about the utilization of a WordPress site. The following is the typical disk space usage taken from the actual WordPress websites that have been running for fourplus years.

  • WordPress Core: 8.9 MB (4.9.5+)
  • Average plugins directory (/wp-content/plugins): 100 MB
  • Average theme directory (/wp-content/themes): 25 MB
  • Average uploads directory (/wp-content/uploads): 825 MB
  • Average MySQL size of the database of 85MB

We've observed that the typical user has about 1GB of data in one WordPress install. It's possible that this can change in any direction. There are people who have a larger database, but smaller data usage, and even the opposite way around. If you choose our starter plan, you'll end up with an additional 9GB (90 percent) of storage space to grow.

Live Experiments

Let's look at some current customer examples. The sites listed below are currently all in the process of development, including blogs, companies and e-commerce sites.

Client 1.

Client One has 11 WordPress websites and uses 4.04 GB from their 100GB of allocated disk space. This is well under our average site, using less than 400MB for each site.

Disk usage
Disk usage example (client 1)

Client 2

Client Two has three WordPress sites and is using 3.3 GB out of their 20GB allocated disk space. They are pretty much in line with the standard of 1GB per website.

Disk usage example (client 3)
Disk usage example (client 2)

Client 3

Client Three hosts 3 WordPress websites, which consume 503.21 Mb of the 15 GB storage space. Its performance is lower than the performance of our website, using less than 200 MB of data per website..

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Disk usage example (client 4)
Disk usage example (client 3)

We can show you more instances, but it's the way of life across the majority of our customers . We even take this a step further by offering these additional ways to conserve disk space

  • The websites for staging do not count. Only websites that are live are counted against use of disk space.

Exceptions to the Average

Of course, there will always be exceptions to the average. If you host huge videos, PDFs or photos with high-resolution There is a chance that you are on the opposite extreme. This is normal and we have a number of clients who are currently in this situation. There are two suggestions for customers that are in need in storage. The first is using our own add-on for disk space, or offloading the storage onto an external service.

1. Disk Space Add-on

  • It is not necessary to sign up for accounts through an outside storage company like Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.
  • The extension for disk space is the only solution native to the system, which means that you do not need to install and set up the WordPress plugin to connect to the external source.
  • The billing and usage statistics for disks are handled by My. This makes it easy to track the additional space you use on disks and all of it in one place.

2. The transfer of data to an external storage provider

  • It is also recommended to take advantage of services offered by Third-party providers, for instance YouTube or Vimeo for video content, Soundcloud for audio files for audio files, and Dropbox for downloadable PDF files. These platforms aren't just safe and reliable and reliable, they also boast some of the most efficient network in the world with terms of serving large size files.

How Much Disk Space Are You Utilizing?

Check disk usage via SSH
Check disk usage via SSH

How to Save Disk Space

Are you at the brink between two plans in hosting? Here are some suggestions to instantly save on disk space and ensure that your plan for hosting is able to grow.

  • You can do this step more by using software like media Cleaner. It allows you to find and take away any unneeded media in your blog.
  • Upload your massive documents to cloud storage services such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, YouTube, Dropbox and Soundcloud to drastically reduce the size of the disk required by the hosting service you use.
  • Be sure that comments are removed and cleaned from junk or garbage.

Summary

This should answer any confusion you have regarding choosing the best WordPress hosting service to suit your needs for business. Most of the time, there's a good chance that you don't require an amount of storage space you think you do. Check out how much space you're currently using with these methods and enhance your site and you'll discover a way to reduce costs on hosting.

What are your thoughts? Did you notice that after some optimization the use of disks is lower than what previously thought? Do tell us in the comment section.

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