Out of my 10Gb disk space, only 1.5 is used, but the Inodes show 99% of the allotted 60,000. This means I cannot do any tasks. There are three small sites with 40 odd pages and pics and no woocommerce. I wonder how you all work with your hosting with hundreds of products. AFAIU for Inodes, 1 file is 1, whether it is a pic or zip, no matter the size. I deleted three large zips of 8Gb, there was no difference. On Sales threads, hosts speak only about disk space and not Inodes. How you all manage?
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Inodes more important than disk space
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SilverClouds
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Interesting. What hosting is that? Never had that problem.
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Most hosts has a lot more or unlimited Inodes, my standard shared host here in Sweden has unlimited and I use about 300.000 Inodes right now with them.
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that's the first question I ask hosters before buying their service: how many inodes we are allowed. If they don't say at least 250k I don't buy their hosting, and sometimes I turn my nose even at 250k inodes. I've learned the importance of inodes in the same way as you, so I'm not falling for this again 
My current hosting (loominost) which I've purchased here on the forum allows 1 million inodes (or at least they allowed me last year when I purchased their hosting, I obviously can't speak for everyone and for the current times)... but they have other issues (they won't give me access to terminal, and they won't replace the garbage Roundcube as default email client, either), so now I'm on the search for another cheap hoster to replace Loominost...
Anyway, yeah the inodes are paramount, and it's the least talked about feature in a shared hosting package, it pisses me off so much that no hoster mentions this on their salespage...
My current hosting (loominost) which I've purchased here on the forum allows 1 million inodes (or at least they allowed me last year when I purchased their hosting, I obviously can't speak for everyone and for the current times)... but they have other issues (they won't give me access to terminal, and they won't replace the garbage Roundcube as default email client, either), so now I'm on the search for another cheap hoster to replace Loominost...
Anyway, yeah the inodes are paramount, and it's the least talked about feature in a shared hosting package, it pisses me off so much that no hoster mentions this on their salespage...
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Hmm, limitations by inodes... That sounds like I launched one of my first websites 15 years ago using HostGator lol.
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Yeah, it is reaööy a newbie problem. When you been around a while you don´t even think about it.
Actually, my Wordpress was constantly engaged in Cron, despite the site was in development, no visitor, except me the admin. I wanted to halt that Cron, when someone suggested WP-Cron or something, and it could not write. Then my host told my Inodes are full. I had never even heard about it earlier. This was two months after purchase, so no going back. Now I am stuck till March till renewal. Every now and then they pester me to upgrade, which I don't want.
Last month I even made a request to provide additional 10k Inodes, for a week, but they declined. This is like Insurance, you know the nitty gritty only after purchase.
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this usually means they either need money to stay afloat, or they're aggressive mofos. Either way, time to find another hoster...
trueThis is like Insurance, you know the nitty gritty only after purchase.
I wonder, their sales page is what they put up with their offer price, not the customer. With them rejecting a week relief, I wonder who will want to continue. As I said, need to wait till March.
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don't know what you mean by this
I mean the prices are their own. They should abide by all the good words they use while selling.
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well, welcome to corporate marketing