How to check your Server Disk and Database Usage in cPanel

The statistics section in cPanel is a key resource for monitoring your hosting account’s performance. It provides an overview of essential metrics, giving valuable insights into your account’s activity and resource usage.

It helps you monitor bandwidth, email usage, and more to ensure your hosting account runs smoothly.

1. Access cPanel directly through your Z.com account.

2. Once you have reached the cPanel dashboard, you will see a column of your cPanel statistics on the right. Here, you can locate your disk usage and database disk usage information.

* Disk Usage and Database Disk Usage for each web hosting plan:

The server total disk storage in your hosting plan is shared among files, email and other contents including the database disk usage. The database usage is part of your server plan total disk, usage may depend on how much space is utilized by other content within the service.

Example: Disk Usage and Database Disk Usage Calculation

Suppose your hosting plan provides 100 GB of total SSD storage (Business Plan).

Total Disk Usage: 100 GB

Here’s how the usage is calculated:

Disk Usage: 5.15 GB
Databases usage: 428.8 MB (or 0.4188 GB) included

Available Storage for Databases:
• Reference the total available storage for the server plan, calculated as:

100 GB (total) – 5.15 GB (files and emails) + 0.4188 GB (database usage) = 95.2688 GB

How Usage Displays:
• Disk Usage: 5.15 GB / 100 GB
• Database Disk Usage: 428.8 MB / 95.27 GB

The following shows an example of the server disk and database disk usage statistics.

Managing both file and database storage is essential to stay within the plan’s allocated limit.

You may check out our guide on using the disk usage tool in cPanel.

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