Why your webhost space gets eaten up
I got an e-mail today that this account has used 100 % of it’s space. I thought that was odd. I shouldn’t have used that much.
So I used the Disk Usage Viewer to try and figure out where something had gobbled up a lot of space.
Turns out it was the guestbook directories. That thing is creating backups over and over until it eats up your space. The last few days the backups had increased exponentially in size. There’s a lot of almost empty space in there. I don’t have any idea how that happened.
Anyway, the moral is that automated scripts may gobble up a lot of space without you realizing, so keep an eye on things.
And if you’ve got Advanced Guestbook installed, it may suddenly start gobbling up space, even if it didn’t before. Weird…
Second update: Oh no, the guestbook ate itself totally! 53604 pages of nonsense!
UPDATE: And then I find out that my old e-mail address that I’d used a challenge response system on, has been piling up on the server, instead of being fetched by that system. I’m downloading 2135 messages now. The majority of which will be junk. But that should free up a lot of space, at least!