{"id":8818,"date":"2023-08-28T14:44:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T14:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=8818"},"modified":"2025-06-17T10:47:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T10:47:57","slug":"running-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/running-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress, IONOS &amp; file descriptors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am having a problem with my web hosting solution. The CMS is wordpress; I installed W3 Total Cache which is too hungry for file descriptors given my disk space is subject to a quota. How can I solve this? If I can. Here some notes and links, &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">W3 Total Cache<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>They promise integration with CDN systems, which are available to me via IONOS hosting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/w3-total-cache\/#installation\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/w3-total-cache\/#installation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/w3-total-cache\/\">https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/w3-total-cache\/<\/a> , the author\/vendor site<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/w3-total-cache\/setup-guide-wizard\/\">https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/w3-total-cache\/setup-guide-wizard\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And a third party comment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/plugins\/w3-total-cache\/\">https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/plugins\/w3-total-cache\/<\/a> from inmotion hosting<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>I finally wrote some scripts to delete old cache files, they are <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dfl1955\/wordpresstools\">https:\/\/github.com\/dfl1955\/wordpresstools<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/event-monitoring\/\">Event Monitoring<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/gnuplot\/\">GNUplot<\/a>, which is meant to provide me with a graph\/chart of the space used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bottom Line<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This didn&#8217;t work for me as I wasn&#8217;t paying for enough space to hold the plugin&#8217;s cache, nor for alternative cache stores. I am now paying for the CDN service. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am having a problem with my web hosting solution. The CMS is wordpress; I installed W3 Total Cache which is too hungry for file descriptors given my disk space is subject to a quota. How can I solve this? If I can. Here some notes and links, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[3,584],"tags":[1972,1971,916,911,28],"class_list":["post-8818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","category-wordpress-technology","tag-cache","tag-file-descriptors","tag-linux","tag-technology","tag-wordpress"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@davelevy_eu\/110967794869990735","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/laptop-glenncarstenspeters-unsplash-w1080.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8818"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12453,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions\/12453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}