Don’t think you have to worry about disk usage. I have over 1,000 posts and nearly 600 comments and my details are:
Disk Space Usage – 12.98 MB
MySQL Disk Space – 4.34 MB
If you plan on uploading images until the cows come home and you’re that concerned about it you could always host your images elsewhere, like Flikr or Photobucket etc.
My own disk usage is a bit steep, however, almost all of it is images.
WordPress itself (2.3.3) takes approximately 3 MB.
The base tables are tiny, a few KB maximum. Adding posts to them takes up space, but very little. It’s just text, even uncompressed it’s small.
Images that you upload live in your webspace too, and they take up their own size, obviously. In the database, images take up only a few extra bytes each.
So basically, WP is very light on the space requirements.
Thanks. I’m trying to figure out how I went from 16.81MB space to 64.7 in one month. Some of it I know is email, which I can delete. I don’t know what else is using up so much space. I only have 100MB to use. Thanks again, I appreciate the thoughtful answers.
I went from 16.81MB space to 64.7 in one month.
Wow. You might want to take a peek inside your database to see what is going on.
LenK, can you give me an idea of what I should be looking for?
It probably isn’t your database. If you go to phpMyAdmin, each table says how big it is.
Most likely it is the statistics files / logs that your webserver keeps automatically. You should be able to ask your host to delete these if you don’t need them.
yes, the stats file of your webserver will help you (cpanel or some application like this).
The server logs that tell you who connects to what page might also be of service.
I found one day that hackers uploaded loads of software on my server and through some system other people could download it.