How to Monitor and Reduce Your Disk Usage

What uses up disk space

Disk usage on your hosting plan isn’t only the images and files in your Media Library. It also includes:

• Page and post revisions (WordPress keeps every saved version by default)
• Plugin and theme files
• Database size (forms entries, logs, cached data)
• Backups stored on the server itself

How to check your usage

Your Innermedia support team can pull a breakdown of what’s using space on your hosting at any time — including a folder-by-folder disk analysis — so you can see exactly what’s driving usage before deciding what to remove.

Ways to reduce it

1. Delete unused images and documents from the Media Library (see How to Remove Unused Images From Your Media Library).
2. Ask us to clear out old page revisions if your site has built up a large number over time.
3. Remove any plugins or themes that are installed but no longer active.
4. Avoid uploading oversized original images — resize before uploading rather than relying on WordPress to scale them down (see Optimising Images for Web).