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How much disk space does your hosting Plan Really Need?

Nov 3, 2022

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What amount of disk space do you require?

Our Hosting Plans

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

Average WordPress Website Usage

Let's look into some of the data that surrounds the use of the WordPress website. This is the average use of disk space derived from real WordPress sites which have been operating 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 is 85 MB.

We've observed that the typical user will have around 1GB of information in one WordPress installation. There is a possibility that this could alter from one direction to the next. Some people have a larger database, with less usage of data, as well as the reverse around. If you select our basic plan, you'll end up with nine GB (90 per cent) and storage capacity that can expand.

Live Experiments

We will look at some recent customers' examples. The sites listed below are all currently in the process of development such as blogs, company websites and e-commerce sites.

Client 1.

Client One has 11 WordPress websites and uses 4.04 GB out of 100GB allocated disk space. It's well below our average site, using less than 400MB for each site.

Disk usage
Disk usage example (client 1)

Client 2

Client Two has three WordPress websites and uses 3.3 megabytes out of the 20GB allocated disk space. The sites are in line with the norm of 1GB for each site.

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

Client 3

Client Three hosts 3 WordPress websites, that use 503.21 Mb out of 15GB of storage. The performance of the website is less than our site, using less than 200 MB of data per site..

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

We can show you more scenarios, but it's what's expected of all of our clients . We even take this a step further by offering some additional strategies to help save the disk space.

  • The staging websites do not count. Only sites that are currently live can be considered to be used against storage space on disks..

Exceptions to the Average

There is always a deviation from the standard. If you host huge videos, PDFs or photos with high-resolution There is a chance that you're on opposite sides. It is common and we've got a lot of customers in this situation. There are two suggestions for clients who the need of storage. First, you can use our own add-on that can be used for storage space on disks or offloading storage on an external provider.

1. Disk Space Add-on

  • It's not required to sign up for accounts via an outside storage provider like Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.
  • The extension that allows disk space is the only solution native to the system, which means you don't have to install or set up the WordPress plugin to connect to the external source.
  • The usage and billing statistics on disks are managed by My. It is easy to keep track of the extra storage space used by disks and keep it all from one central location.

2. Data transfer to an external provider of storage

  • Also, it is recommended to avail services offered by Third-party providers, like YouTube or Vimeo to stream video content, Soundcloud for audio files to audio files, and Dropbox for downloadable PDF files. These platforms aren't just safe and reliable, but they also boast some of the most efficient networks worldwide in terms of serving large size documents.

How much disk space are You Utilizing?

Check disk usage via SSH
Check disk usage via SSH

How to Save Disk Space

Are you on the verge of deciding between two plans in hosting? Here are some tips to save storage space and to ensure that your plan for hosting will expand.

  • This step can be accomplished with the help of software, such as Media Cleaner. It allows you to find and take away any unneeded media in your blog.
  • Upload your massive documents onto cloud storage platforms like Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, YouTube, Dropbox and Soundcloud to drastically reduce the size of the storage device required by the hosting company you use.
  • Make sure your comments are cleaned of garbage or junk.

Summary

It should clear any doubt there is about selecting the most suitable WordPress hosting solution to fit the requirements of business. The majority of the time, there's a good chance that you don't need the amount of storage space you think you have. Take a look at the storage space you're using currently with these strategies and improve your site and you'll discover a way to reduce costs for hosting.

What are your thoughts? Did you notice that after certain optimizations, the utilization of disks is lower than the previous thought? Please let us know in the comment section.

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