On the Dreamhost panel you can request every 30 days to view the disk usage of each domain that you are hosting. Is there any way I can monitor the disk usage daily, or at least weekly? I don’t want to wait 30 days to get an update; clients can go crazy uploading stuff in 30 days.
Monitor Disk Usage per domain
sdayman
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You can view current disk usage by User in the panel:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=status.disk&
My domains are set up so that each domain is owned by a specific user. You can also create a one-line cron job in the panel and have it run daily:
/usr/bin/du -sh example.com
If their website stores data outside of the domain folder, it’d be:
/usr/bin/du -sh example.com example_data
If it’s run as that user, it will show you how many megs (or gigs) their domain folder (and then examle_data folder) is. You get to set the email address for the output. I don’t know if there’s a way to put more than one email address, but I’d try separating them with commas.[hr]
I just tried the above command. For some reason, using the panel for this does a recursive listing. The good news is that the very last line will give you a grand total. My new command I’m attempting is:
/usr/bin/du -sh example.com | tail -1
This will show the last line at the tail end of the listing.
Just got the result back and the tail -1 addition worked.