Understanding Your Storage and Bandwidth Usage
Every Unisolva hosting plan includes a set amount of NVMe storage and monthly bandwidth. Understanding how these work — and how to monitor them — helps you keep your site running smoothly and avoid unexpected issues.
Your Plan's Limits at a Glance
- Starter — 10 GB NVMe storage / 500 GB bandwidth per month
- Standard — 25 GB NVMe storage / 1 TB (1,000 GB) bandwidth per month
- Business — 50 GB NVMe storage / 2 TB (2,000 GB) bandwidth per month
What Counts as Storage?
Storage includes everything stored on your hosting account:
- Website files — your WordPress core files, themes, plugins, and uploads
- Databases — your MySQL databases (WordPress stores all posts, settings, and content here)
- Email — emails stored in your cPanel mailboxes
- Backups — if you store local backups, they count against your storage
- Log files — access and error logs stored on the server
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???? Tip Email and log files are often overlooked storage consumers. If your disk is filling up, check your email quota in cPanel > Email Accounts and clear old emails, and check your log files in cPanel > Disk Usage. |
What Counts as Bandwidth?
Bandwidth is the total data transferred between your server and visitors each month:
- Every page view sends data from your server to the visitor's browser
- Every image, CSS file, and JavaScript file downloaded by visitors counts
- File downloads, video streaming, and form submissions all use bandwidth
- Bot traffic and crawlers (Googlebot, etc.) also count toward bandwidth
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???? Note LiteSpeed Web Server + SpeedyCache Pro significantly reduce bandwidth usage by serving cached pages instead of regenerating content for each visitor. A well-cached WordPress site uses a fraction of the bandwidth of an uncached one. |
How to Check Your Usage in cPanel
Quick view — Statistics panel
- Log in to cPanel at yourdomain.com/cpanel
- On the right side of the dashboard, find the Statistics panel
- You will see a summary showing Disk Space Used and Bandwidth Used for the current month
Detailed disk usage breakdown
- In cPanel, go to Files > Disk Usage
- A visual breakdown shows which folders and mailboxes are using the most space
- Click any folder to drill down and find large files
Bandwidth history
- In cPanel, go to Metrics > Bandwidth
- View current month usage and a historical graph of bandwidth by month
- Data is broken down by HTTP (website), FTP, and email traffic
How to Free Up Storage Space
Clean up WordPress media
- Remove unused images in WordPress > Media > Library
- Use a media optimization plugin to compress large images
- If you have multiple image sizes registered by themes/plugins, use the "Regenerate Thumbnails" plugin to clean up unused sizes
Clean up plugin and theme files
- Delete inactive plugins and themes from WordPress > Plugins and Appearance > Themes
- Each installed theme contains thousands of files — unused themes add up quickly
Clean up the WordPress database
- Delete post revisions, spam comments, and transients using a plugin like WP-Optimize
- Large databases slow down your site and consume storage
Manage email storage
- In cPanel > Email Accounts, review each mailbox quota and reduce if needed
- Delete old emails or download them to your local computer as an archive
Remove old backups
- If you have stored manual backups in your hosting account, download and delete old ones
- Unisolva provides Cloudflare-integrated off-site backups — you do not need to store backups locally
What Happens When You Approach Your Limits?
Storage limit
If your disk usage reaches 100%, new files cannot be written. This can cause:
- WordPress unable to save new posts, pages, or uploads
- Email bouncing back to senders because the mailbox is full
- Database errors because MySQL cannot write new data
Bandwidth limit
If monthly bandwidth is exhausted, your site may become temporarily unavailable or slow until the next billing cycle resets the counter (on the 1st of each month). Contact support at my.unisolva.com if you experience a sudden bandwidth spike — it may indicate a traffic surge or bot attack.
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???? Tip If you are consistently near your storage or bandwidth limits, upgrading your plan is the most straightforward solution. Contact my.unisolva.com to upgrade. |
Verify You Are Monitoring Usage
- Check cPanel Statistics panel monthly as a routine
- Set up email notifications in cPanel > Contacts & Notifications if you want to be alerted when usage is high
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