Hosting Account Space Upgrade

[polishma]

Hello! I think this is how I request a space upgrade, correct? I recently went to do a post, and found out that my disk space is full... I'm bumming because I have a post that needs to be up tomorrow Anyway I can get an upgrade? I'm 99.9% sure that my website meets Terms of Service, I'm definitely using over 50% of my space, and my accounts been older than 7 days... not to mention I don't have suspension Thank you!

Website: Polishmaniacs.x10.mx

-Mishelle

 

[leafypiggy]

Hi Mishelle,

Currently you have a 405MB wordpress backup (from softaculous) that's eating most of the space on your account. That being said, you're still using over 50% of your disk space if you remove that backup.

As for ToS, you're looking good. Do keep in mind that we limit photo and video galleries to 1GB, regardless of whether you have the unmetered plan or not. So just keep that in mind. It might be worth compressing your images a bit in order to save space (I'm sure there are wordpress plugins that do this).

Do please remove that backup if it's no longer necessary. They tend to pile up quickly.

I've upgraded your account to our unmetered plan.

 

[polishma]

Thank you so much Now, I assume the limit of photo and video galleries is only for the Free account, correct? I'm going to look into compressing them.. my blog is for reviewing so photos are a necessity. I did just remove the backup... I didn't know if it was needed or not, but I'm positive it isn't. Thank you so much again!

 

[descalzo]

The photos are way too big. 2439x2025 and 907Kb per picture is just too much.
Shrink them down to the size that you display them on the page.
I use GIMP, a free graphics program that you can download from the Web.
It will save on disk space, bandwidth, and your site will load much faster.

 

[bdistler]

IMO - 260 requests - 17.5 MiB - 8.59 seconds to load = way to much for your landing page (first page to load)

see what loads at --> [ http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/WkXJF/Polishmaniacs.x10.mx ]

try [ Test Now ] a few times

move a lot of that to other 'pages'

and as @descalzo said above - size the images - to the 'display' size on your page

you have one image that has a width = 1032 - height = 2510
but you display it at Width = 151 - height = 373
[ http://polishmaniacs.x10.mx/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/112.jpg ]
you need to resize that image to - Width = 151 - height = 373

 

[chatngox]

Don't upload gif. For some reason is using your bandwidth.
Don't upload over 1000 of 1920 x 1080 images. It will result of taking too long to load and could cause heavy resource usage.
Go through your media/upload folder and delete those old images like from 2010, 2011, 2012 if they're not needed.
And use external image host like TinyPic, ImageShack, Flicker, Imgur if possible. So they don't heavy resource use.
There are some engines/plugins that will allows you to compress your site's css and html so that loading time may be fast depending on your content!

Just keep those in mind, and you're good to go!

Also try to download the backups to a storage device and keep off the backup from server.

EDIT: I see some of your images could use external image hosting.

 

[essellar]

I'm going to recommend a utility called JPEGmini. It's available for both Mac and Windows, and unless you're doing nothing but processing JPEGs for a living, the maximum you'll need to spend is $20. (The free "trial version", which is actually an unregistered full version, has a limit of 20 images/day, and that may be all you need.) Exporting your images at a relatively high quality (90-100 inLightroom or Gimp, 11 or 12 in Photoshop) and with minimum metadata (convert to sRGB, no embedded colour profile), then run through JPEGmini will result in images that are visually indistinguishable from your original high-quality output but about 1/6 to 1/5 of the file size, on average (like you had dropped down to a much lower quality export, but without any of the nasty artifacts). A 2K/"full HD" image (1920 x 1080) will ordinarily weigh in at between 150 and 300KB, depending on the level of detail, after being processed. Smaller images will, of course, be smaller.

No, I don't have any affiliation with JPEGmini. I'm just a really, really happy customer who saved a lot of hours and a lot of gigabytes of upload time/bandwidth without losing anything at all quality-wise. I've had it for a week, and it's already paid for itself a couple of times over in ISP overage charges.

 

[descalzo]

Thanks for the tip essellar. Will check out the program.