File Limit per Account and How to Analyze the Details
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Our shared hosting plans have different types of limits on the number of files you can host on your site.
Below, we show you the list of each plan and its respective limit:
Starter: 200,000
Essential: 400,000
Advanced: 600,000
Professional: 800,000
Business: 1,000,000
Oak: 1,200,000
The cloud and dedicated servers plans have no file limit.
With rare exceptions, the vast majority of sites do not need more files than the limit assigned to each of the plans we offer.
You can view the total number of files from your cPanel by accessing the following address:
Note: remember to replace "misitio.com" with your domain's actual URL.
In the highlighted box, Statistics, the first item shown is the number of files used out of the total assigned to your account.
How to identify the directories with the largest number of files
Via SSH or from your cPanel, Terminal, you can run the following command to see the number of files in each directory:
find . -printf "%h\n" | cut -d/ -f-2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
You should browse through the largest directories and run the command again until you specifically identify where most of your files are stored.
We recommend that no folder contain more than 20,000 files or subfolders because this could slow down your site. Note: there is no problem if the sum of all subfolders exceeds this amount; the 20,000 limit applies only to an individual folder.
Also keep in mind that you will not be able to view more than 10,000 files in each directory via FTP, so it would be better to use fewer than this limit.