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Your hosting plan includes set amounts of storage and server resources. This guide shows you where to see your usage, and what to do if you reach a limit.

See a summary

Log in to cPanel. The Statistics panel on the home page shows your usage and limits, including: It also shows how many email accounts, databases, domains and subdomains you have, compared with your plan’s limits.

Find what’s using disk space

1

Open Disk Usage

Type Disk Usage in the Search Tools box and open it. You’ll see how much space each folder uses.
2

Check email

Email is often the biggest user of space. Open Email Disk Usage to see which mailboxes are largest and delete old messages.
Common space-savers: old backup files in your home folder, large email attachments, and unused WordPress themes, plugins or test sites.

Check if your site hit a limit

Open Resource Usage. It shows whether your account has reached its CPU, memory or process limits recently. A site that hits its limits may load slowly or show errors such as 503 Service Unavailable or 508 Resource Limit Is Reached. If you hit limits often:
  • Add a caching plugin to WordPress, and remove plugins you don’t use.
  • Spread cron jobs out and run them less often. See Set up cron jobs.
  • Block bad bots and spam traffic.
  • Upgrade your plan if your site has simply grown.
Still stuck? Open a ticket with your domain name and when the problem happens.