I’ve just been told by my hosting company that my website exceeds their new inode usage limits. I didn’t even know inode usage was a thing, to be honest – I am not that technical.

I’ve looked through the files in an ftp service but to be honest, aside from a few unused plugins I can’s see what else I could safely delete because I don’t know which files and folders are required.

I have a relatively small site: 500 images, 58 blog posts and about 50 woo commerce products (perhaps fewer) and 20 pages. This is not a big website – and yet I am being told there are 238,000 files and folders. How?

I pay for a sucuri service and the site gets scanned every 12 hours so it is unlikely to be hacked – although not impossible. I did notice that when I look in the ftp client, every image has at least 4 versions – all of different sizes and of course, I only use one size. I guess I could laboriously go through each image, work out which size is being used and delete the rest.

Any better ideas or insights would be very gratefully accepted. I am at a loss and will lose my website if I can’t resolve this before the migration at the end of August.