How much space is DA taking?

Hi,

I recently installed DA and previously i use CPanel.
Now the thing is when i used to use CPanel to host the websites i have on my server, CPanel takes up about 225MB of space. Now i just started using DA for the same websites on same server and now DA takes up about 750MB of space.

Is this how much this should be?

Also please lets know how much DA is taking on your server, if you use it to host your website or just test servers with it.

Thanks.

Hello,

That's not a simple question. Do you want to know how much space is taken under
/usr/local/directadmin ? Or what? Directadmin installing related software does not keep it within /usr/local/directadmin directory, neither does it with their configs. Then a lot of sources and other distributives are kept in /usr/local/directadmin directory, and they can be safely deleted.

Thus I've got on CentOS:


and (FreeBSD)


and both installations are working good enough.

Note, OS type does not make much difference.

Lol cpanel might only use 225mb space, but it uses 150% more resources.

scsi said:

Lol cpanel might only use 225mb space, but it uses 150% more resources.

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How does that work?
How can Cpanel use 225MB and use more resources?
I still think 750MN for DA is way too much considering DA is known to be fast, but taking so much off RAM.

zEitEr said:

Hello,

That's not a simple question. Do you want to know how much space is taken under
/usr/local/directadmin ? Or what? Directadmin installing related software does not keep it within /usr/local/directadmin directory, neither does it with their configs. Then a lot of sources and other distributives are kept in /usr/local/directadmin directory, and they can be safely deleted.

Thus I've got on CentOS:

Code:

du -h /usr/local/directadmin/ --max-depth=1
456K    /usr/local/directadmin/scripts
337M    /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
56K     /usr/local/directadmin/conf
44M     /usr/local/directadmin/data
24M     /usr/local/directadmin/plugins
435M    /usr/local/directadmin/

and (FreeBSD)

Code:

du -d 1 -h /usr/local/directadmin/
 65M    /usr/local/directadmin/scripts
 92M    /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
6.6M    /usr/local/directadmin/data
 12K    /usr/local/directadmin/conf
2.0K    /usr/local/directadmin/plugins
178M    /usr/local/directadmin/

and both installations are working good enough.

Note, OS type does not make much difference.

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Judging from your CentOS (which is what i use also) that is like 840MB and FreeBSD is like 340MB. So what do you mean by OS type doesn't make a difference?

And also don't you think 840MB is so much?

uberguru said:

And also don't you think 840MB is so much?

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Not really, drive space is so cheap these days.

I remember the time when 250MB and 2GB drives were a lot!

@uberguru,

No, I don't think so, because I know, what exactly takes those Mbytes.
So if delete all *.tar.gz and MySQL DB's backups, and all those directories with extracted sources, it's still possible to lower numbers.

After deleting *.tar.gz and another unnecessary files, I've got this on CentOS:


Note, without plugins it would take ~87Mb.

Then ./scripts/packages/ directory takes 46Mbytes with another *.tar.gz files, which could be safely erased. Thus I would get ~41Mbytes.

That's it.


@Peter Laws,

It matters if /usr/local/directadmin is added to system backup. And a lot of unnecessary files are getting added every week.

So far so less:


Still working directadmin installation.