{"id":3990,"date":"2025-07-19T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/find-disk-usage-in-cpanel\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:01:05","slug":"find-disk-usage-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/find-disk-usage-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Disk Usage in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your hosting account is using more disk space than expected, cPanel can help you see where the space is being used.<\/p>\n<p>To check disk usage:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to the client area at https:\/\/clients.4uhosting.co.uk.<\/li>\n<li>Choose <strong>My Services<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Find the hosting service and select <strong>Manage<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Login to cPanel<\/strong> from the left side.<\/li>\n<li>Open <strong>Disk Usage<\/strong> from the <strong>Files<\/strong> section.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>cPanel will show the folders in your account and how much space they are using. You can sort by disk usage to find larger directories more easily.<\/p>\n<p>Common areas to check include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Website files in <code>public_html<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Backups stored inside the hosting account.<\/li>\n<li>Large media uploads.<\/li>\n<li>Cache folders.<\/li>\n<li>Email stored on the hosting account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Be careful before deleting files. If you are not sure what a file or folder is used for, do not remove it. Contact support first and we can advise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your hosting account is using more disk space than expected, cPanel can help you see where the space is being used. To check&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[17],"class_list":["post-3990","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-cpanel-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4106,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3990\/revisions\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}