What To Do When Hitting Your cPanel Inode Limit

If your hosting service has reached it’s Inode limit. This guide will walk through identifying issues, and resolving them!

What Are Inodes?

An inode is quite simply a count of files on your hosting service. This includes your website files, images, videos, and every single email you have stored. Your hosting account has a set limit on the total number of inodes you can have.

If you reach this limit, you won't be able to create new files, upload images, or even receive new emails, even if you still have available disk space.

How to Check Your Inode Usage

You can check your overall usage using the following steps:

1. 1 Log in to VIPcontrol

2. 2 Go to My Services → Web Hosting and click on the Manage button

   

3. 3 Click on Details on the left side

4. 4 Look for Inode Usage in the middle.

   

How to Reduce Your Inode Count

cPanel doesn't offer a detailed breakdown, so investigating is a bit more manual, as a summary we would recommend removing any older emails, checking over your website plugins and cache, and any old websites or unused files.

We have a separate comprehensive guide below on how to go about this and our recommendations:

• Troubleshooting Inode Usage

Contact us

If you have looked through the above areas and are still over the limit, please do not hesitate to contact our Technical Support team and we are happy to provide a breakdown of where you are using your inodes and where you can free up your limit.

Upgrade your Hosting

If you are not able to clear out any files, you can consider upgrading your hosting service to increase the inode limit. You aren’t able to upgrade just the inode limit as it scales up per disk space configuration.

You can use the following table to plan your upgrade: