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# 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)`.

![The Disk section of the Server tab: the Usage row, with the space used and the disk size.](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/9/d/2/d/9d2d3e0b7134b800/act-serveur-disque-en_9id2q5.png)

> **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.

## Enlarging the disk

> ⚠️ **Resizing is not a customer action.** Disk size and type are changed on Faaaster's side: contact support to request a larger disk.

Worth knowing before you get in touch:

- **Enlarging happens live**, without interrupting the site, in 10 GB steps.
- **Shrinking, however, 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. **Ask support for a larger disk** if the site has simply grown.

> **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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