Comments on: Inodes – Why They Actually Matter?

By: steveo

steveo — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:11:31 +0000

It doesn’t go into “why” though. When you find out about this from cloning an existing system into shared storage about 30 million inodes into it, at maybe 10MB/s you wonder why they crippled it in the first place, and why they act like they are doing you a favor by bumping it some trivial amount.

lots of files=dedicated hard disk (=more performance anyway than a SAN/NFS anyway).

By: Garen

Garen — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 21:56:00 +0000

They don’t have a limit. They can manually bump you up for your VPS, and dedicated plans. Not sure about their shared plans, though.

By: shiang

shiang — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 04:33:00 +0000

Thanks, it’s a useful article. How about Inmotion hosting inodes limit?

By: Marcus Cross

Marcus Cross — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:50:00 +0000

Hey, I’d never even heard of inodes before, so thanks for making me learn something new. I didn’t realise it would make such a difference to clean up the WordPress database, but again, learn something new every day.

By: Garen

Garen — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:27:00 +0000

In reply to Marcus Cross. Hey Marcus, Thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment :)

By: Damon Kinney

Damon Kinney — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 13:05:00 +0000

In reply to Garen. No that cleared it up. Thanks again for the info on Inodes, something to keep an eye on to say the least.

By: Garen

Garen — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 04:40:00 +0000

Hey Damon,

In your cPanel, you should be able to see how many inodes you are using on your server for both of those hosting companies. If you need help with this, you can contact them, and they should be able to let you know.

The inodes are independent based on each shared hosting account that you have. Meaning that other sites or shared accounts on your shared account act independently. This is one way that a lot of hosts limit the resources that you can actually use. Once you start exceeding these limitations you’re soon to get a notice saying your web hosting account has been suspended.

This is a very common issue, and I have seen it so many times in 6+ years.

Please note this only applies to shared servers. VPS, dedicated, and reseller plans allow much more inodes.

Hopefully, this clarifies any questions or concerns that you might have. If not, please leave a comment, and I will try to answer it better for you.

By: Damon Kinney

Damon Kinney — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 03:09:00 +0000

Man, I really had no idea what an Inode was. I currently use Hostgator for one of my websites and BlueHost for the other. I have not run into this problem just yet, but I am going to be heading over to my hosting page to see exactly where I stand with my Inodes. Question though, Are you also saying that server sharing can clog up your Inodes even if it is not you that is running up the Inodes? For example; HostGator has x amount of websites sharing a hosting server, do other people's sites affect my Inodes if the have reached their limit? or the limit for the server in general? Thanks for sharing this post by the way I really had no idea. Oh, I am also sorry to hear how you learned about Inodes too, nothing like finding out first hand I bet :(