Managed WordPress is eating all storage

[KhalilZammeli]

Hello,

We've installed Managed WordPress on Cloudron, but it's been weirdly eating up all available disk usage.
We've added a 500 gb instance and it used all of it that other apps stopped working.

Any solution or possible reason that's may be causing this?

[joseph]

@KhalilZammeli have you already checked what is using the space inside the app? You can go to Web Terminal and then go to /app/data . Check what inside that directory is using space using du

[KhalilZammeli]

@joseph can you please specifiy from where I can access the web terminal? Do you mean inside of the WordPress app?

[joseph]

@KhalilZammeli https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/#web-terminal

[joseph]

Since you ask about web terminal, may I ask how you figured that WP is eating all your disk space?

[KhalilZammeli]

Please take a look at this screenshot:
the store one is the Wordpress app

[KhalilZammeli]

Also the app folder contains only WordPress regular installation files

[KhalilZammeli]

The backups are also stored in an external storage (Cloudflare)

[joseph]

@KhalilZammeli in the web terminal, cd /app/data and then run du -hcs *. This will give an idea of where the data is (keep drilling down into each directory with the same du -hcs command).

[KhalilZammeli]

Thanks @joseph I found what causing the problem! A backup plugin in WP storing it in the wp-content!
Thank you

[scooke]

@KhalilZammeli Which plugin?

[p44]

@KhalilZammeli That I was going to suggest to you: to check if some backup plugin saved files locally. I had this problem with Duplicator Pro backup plugin.

[jdaviescoates]

@KhalilZammeli said in Managed WordPress is eating all storage:

Thanks @joseph I found what causing the problem! A backup plugin in WP storing it in the wp-content!
Thank you

You likely know this, but just in case: presuming you've got your Cloudron backups properly set-up you don't really need a WP Backup Plugin anymore. Cloudron backups are better.

[p44]

@jdaviescoates With Cloudron no need of any backup wp plugin anymore

[KhalilZammeli]

Thank you all! well noted

[scooke]

@p44 I do use All-in-One WP Migration still, as I sometimes migrate to a non-Cloudron destination, and this one has never let me down.

[p44]

@scooke I'll take a note of All-in-One WP plugin. Thanks a lot for sharing

[jdaviescoates]

@p44 I've used that a few times too. I've always had to increase the memory limit of the app (and the php memory limit too, I think) before it'd work though.

[scooke]

@jdaviescoates I actually never noticed because I always max out those settings on my WP installs to being with!

[jdaviescoates]

@scooke I seem to always forget to do it first, run the backup, or the import, it fails, then I have to work out again how to increase the php.ini memory etc