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How To Reduce The number of Inodes Your WordPress Website Uses?

If you are just launching your first WordPress website, you should also read my guide on how many Inodes a new website needs. For everyone else, here’s a list of factors with the biggest influence on the number of Inodes your WordPress website uses, along with advice on how to reduce this usage. As a […]

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How Many Inodes Does Your Website Need? Hosting Inode Guide

A website is made up of files that are stored on your hosting server. An Inode limit, broadly speaking, denotes the maximum number of files and folders you can store on your server. For example, when a hosting company lists 200,000 as their Inode limit, it means that your website can’t comprise more than 200,000 […]

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The Hidden Pitfalls of “Unlimited” Hosting Bandwidth and Storage

Many shared hosting providers offer unlimited bandwidth or unlimited storage. Considering it costs web hosts piles of money to run their servers, pay electricity bills and IT personnel salaries, can we expect them to offer unlimited server resources? 1. The true meaning of “Unlimited” resources Consider an all-you-can-eat buffet – you pay $30 and can eat […]

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How Much Data Transfer (Bandwidth) Do You Need For Your Website?

This guide is intended for: Beginners launching their first website Intermediate users with websites that receive a few hundred to a few thousand visitors per day Quick & dirty answer: should you worry about bandwidth usage? If you are just starting out and planning to launch your first website, then definitely not. All hosting companies, […]

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How Much Server Storage Will Your Website Need?

Whenever you install a plugin or upload new images, you are using storage space on your hosting server. The amount of storage capacity allotted by hosts varies from company to another and from one hosting plan to another. Make sure to check out our list of WordPress hosting with the most disk storage. If you’re […]

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How Big Can Your WordPress Site’s MySQL Database Get?

Some hosting companies offer “unlimited” MySQL database size (see my article on the pitfalls of unlimited server resources). Other hosts limit the size of a single database, usually to between 500 MB and 2 GB. Many of you are probably wondering how big your site’s MySQL database can get. I’ll try to answer that question […]