Can’t Push My Staging Site Live

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      • Rob Dyer
        December 21, 2020 at 11:55 am #3524911

        @David or anyone with experience…

        I’m with Siteground and I’m on their GrowBig plan with 20GB of storage.

        I created a staging copy as usual and then went to push it live and it failed as I’ve reached more than 80% of my disk usage. (It’s saying I’ve used 18.87GB)

        I called support who said I need to have 3GB free space to push the staging copy live (would have been helpful to know thet *before* I spent a day on updates!) but other than tell me to delete files or upgrade my account they were not much help at all.

        I used WPSweep to tidy up the databases, deleted any unused plugins and themes, and deleted my .opcache folder using FTP.

        At first this took me down to just over 16GB but when I tried to push it failed again. Since then, I’ve done the same actions but cannot get the usage down below 18GB.

        Question: what else can I delete to free up some space so I can get this copy pushed live before my live site updates (eg with new comments)??

        Hoping someone can help.

        (BTW, I’m planning on moving to Cloudways in the new year.)

        • Shlomo Skinner
          December 21, 2020 at 11:55 am #3524917

          Do you have any stored backups that can be deleted?

          Do you have any image files that are either too large or not being used? WP Engine has an article about how to clean up the media library: https://wpengine.com/resources/wordpress-media-library-clean-up/

            • Rob Dyer
              December 21, 2020 at 11:55 am #3524950

              Thanks Shlomo

              You were right.

              I found some backups dating back to earlier in the year in the staging folder.

              Deleted those and now all is good again.

            • Matt Dennis
              December 21, 2020 at 11:55 am #3524934

              I found SiteGrounds staging to be confusing. This is one of the reasons I made the switch to Cloudways. It was simple to switch. Time will tell if it was the right move but so far (in the early days of the switch) I’ve found it to be much more user-friendly.

                • Rob Dyer
                  December 21, 2020 at 11:55 am #3524948

                  Thanks for the info Matt.

                  I’m thinking about moving to Cloudways myself in the new year.

                • David Risley
                  December 21, 2020 at 11:55 am #3524974

                  Glad you got this worked out. 🙂 Reminds me of a client that had a large site footprint because of image files which were really unoptimized. We ended up temporarily upgrading his account just to get more disk space so that we could work with it.

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