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The main folders under your hosting account and represented under the ‘Disk Usage’ feature are:

  • ‘home’: this is the main folder directory from which all the other folders are located.
  • ‘users’: this is where your email boxes are situated. You will find that most of your over-usage is due to email, which can be rectified by deleting unwanted or unnecessary emails and email boxes.
  • ‘public_html’: this is where your website content is served from. Be very careful what you delete in this folder as it may break your website. Look for unnecessary items such as zipped backups of site content or web files and images. Usually these can be deleted without any affect to your website.
  • ‘www_logs’: this is where your web log files are stored. Each log file represents one day of browsing to your website. It is these files that are used to generate your Web Statistics (i.e. AWStats on konsoleH). They may also be downloaded to be used on your own web statistics program on your PC.

AWStats only requires log files to exist for one day, after which they can be deleted.

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