Do you want to know which sites on your server are the largest sites? There’s an easy way to figure that out!

Step 1: SSH Into Your Server #

You need to run the linux du command directly on the server which means SSH.

So, login to your server as root/sudo via ssh.

Learn more about ssh logins for DevelopVIDeploy servers

Step 2: Navigate To The /var/www Folder #

cd /var/www

This is the root folder for all your sites.

Step 3: Run This DU Command #

sudo du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr

The output should look something like this:

121M . 61M ./demo22.vnxv.com 61M ./demo21.vnxv.com 5.0K ./html

The first column contains the size of the folder – in the above example, the entire www folder is 121 megabytes and the two sites are each 61 megabytes.

Bonus: Run It For Your Backups Folder #

You can use the same technique to find out which backups are taking up the most space on your server.

Navigate to the backup folder

cd ~/.wp-backup

Run the same DU command described earlier above:

sudo du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr

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