How do I monitor my Faaaster site's disk space?

The site's Server tab, Disk section, shows the space used and the storage type. The site's Overview also displays usage, in the form 0.9 GB / 10 GB.

What the Disk section shows

Two rows:

• Usage — "Space used by the site files, database and local backups", in the form 0.9 GB used / 10 GB;
• Disk type — the storage medium of the volume, for example Balanced (SSD).

Your backups count toward the quota, just like the files and the database. It's the first thing to check when space shrinks for no apparent reason.

Increasing the disk

The organization's owner and admins increase the production site's disk themselves, from the Server tab, Disk section. The added space is a storage add-on to your subscription, paid before the disk grows.

1. On the Usage row, click the Increase the disk pencil, next to the disk size.
2. Pick the New size with the slider: in steps of 10 GB, up to 200 GB.
3. Check the price calculated for your subscription: To pay today (incl. tax, prorated until the end of the current period), and Then (the amount excl. tax added each month or each year, before any discount).
4. Click Pay and increase.

The payment is charged right away to the payment method on file; the disk grows only once the payment is accepted. A refused payment charges and changes nothing. The increase happens online, without interrupting the site, and a message confirms it ("Disk increased to 30 GB."). The Subscription tab then shows the space bought on the Storage row, for example 10 GB included · +20 GB add-on.

If the increase doesn't go through after the payment, a message tells you so and our team, already informed, takes care of it: don't buy again.

⚠️ The increase is permanent: the space added cannot be reduced afterwards.

No pencil?

It only shows when all these conditions are met:

• you are the organization's Owner or an Admin — not a Member, a Viewer, or someone invited to this one site;
• it is the production site, not a development environment;
• the subscription is active, with no scheduled cancellation and no pending invoice;
• a valid payment method is saved in the organization's billing;
• the site is running and no operation is in progress on it;
• the disk hasn't reached 200 GB yet.

During the trial, the pencil opens a window explaining that increasing the disk is reserved for paid plans, with the Switch to a paid plan button (Subscription tab). If every condition is met and the pencil is still missing, contact support.

Shrinking and changing the type

These two operations aren't done from the dashboard: ask support for them.

• Shrinking takes the site offline: a full archive is taken, the disk is recreated at the new size, then the files are restored.
• Changing the type (HDD ↔ SSD) takes several minutes: a full backup is taken, then the disk is recreated with the new type. On the production site, the site stays online during the replacement; on a development environment, on the Dev plan, or if the zero-downtime switchover isn't possible, it is unavailable during the replacement.

An SSD mainly benefits a site with a heavily used database — online store, forum, high traffic. On a brochure site served from cache, the gain is barely noticeable.

When the disk fills up

Faaaster alerts you before it's full: the Low disk space event triggers a notification to the roles you've designated, and appears in the Events tab.

Three reflexes, in this order:

1. Check what's taking up space. Local backups count toward the quota, as do the files and the database.
2. Clear out what you can — old media, forgotten exports, plugin log tables.
3. Increase the disk if the site has simply grown: Server tab, Disk section, Increase the disk pencil.

Don't wait until it's full. A full disk prevents WordPress from writing: no more media, no more updates, and often a database that refuses writes.

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Updated on: 11/09/2026