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Magento taking up space...

Magento taking up space...

Hi

Im having a few issues with Magento that i cant seem to work out. Basically the web host im with i have unlimited space, but not unlimited files, 262,144 is the limit which im assuming is thousands. We only have a handful of products, 30 at most so its not a big shop. Recently we where hitting that limit alot which was rendering the shop usless because people couldn't add stuff to baskets or log in ..... on the same host we also have 4 wordpress sites. So to combat the problem i took a second package with the host, moved all the wordpress sites over thinking this would solve the file issue, which it did for a few days but now the server with magento on is hitting the limit again....i regularly clean the cashe, either from the admin side or manually via ftp which gives me a few file spaces back but quickly fills again.

 

Has anyone any idea what the issue could be here? 

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Re: Magento taking up space...

It does sound like you have quite a lot of files or directories for such a small number of products.

Did your hosting provider tell you which directories have the highest number of files? You need to know that to be able to find a solution to the problem.

Re: Magento taking up space...

this is the amount for the entire site...is this about average?files.jpg

Re: Magento taking up space...

i think i may have found the issue...the var/sessions folder had thousands files stored.....i realise this will empty carts and users will have to log in again but if it solves the issue of running out of file allowance then at lest the site will be back up and running. Currently deleting the files, i'll see if it helps

Re: Magento taking up space...

that seems to have done the trick...files had been building up in the sessions folder for the last 5 year...200,000 + files!