Determining The Size Of My Site

by toivo
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In considering a site migration, I am looking into finding out the size of my site here. How best to determine this? Perhaps attached screen shot might help . . . could it be 512 MB? Or 1GB Memory? Or? Can I log into my wp-admin and locate the size there, or?
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  • Profile picture of the author toivo
    Here is the screenshot . . . thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author fantrom
    You can grab the files on your site locally and check the size via your filesystem.

    Also, depending on which control panel your web host uses, the size of your site may be listed with your account stats as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author toivo
      Hi Fantrom . . . I went to my hosting's live chat and asked them for the info directly. He looked it up and informed me it is 582MB and it was that simple....I should have done it earlier.
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      • Profile picture of the author fantrom
        Originally Posted by toivo View Post

        Hi Fantrom . . . I went to my hosting's live chat and asked them for the info directly. He looked it up and informed me it is 582MB and it was that simple....I should have done it earlier.
        Glad to hear you figure it out and found a quicker way to boot.
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        • Profile picture of the author toivo
          thanks Fantrom....I'm pretty sure I'll go with Linode....and they'll do the migration for me. I never had a VPS hosted site but from my research, it trumps shared hosting for sure. I had about 300 visitors today and this site (in my sig) is already being hosted for roughly 18 moinths and in that time, I've seo'd, written decent blog posts, uploaded alot of new content and it is even a well aged URL (over 10 years now) but STILL can't get traffic. Hopefully this move will help........
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          • Profile picture of the author fantrom
            Originally Posted by toivo View Post

            thanks Fantrom....I'm pretty sure I'll go with Linode....and they'll do the migration for me. I never had a VPS hosted site but from my research, it trumps shared hosting for sure. I had about 300 visitors today and this site (in my sig) is already being hosted for roughly 18 moinths and in that time, I've seo'd, written decent blog posts, uploaded alot of new content and it is even a well aged URL (over 10 years now) but STILL can't get traffic. Hopefully this move will help........
            No sweat Toivo... hopefully the info on the other post helped as well. Unfortunately the VPS will just help to speed up and stabilize the website.

            As for the traffic issue, is more important to get the right traffic than a lot of traffic.

            You must first create a strategy to reach the target demographic (executives, decision makers, editors, etc) you are trying to reach.

            Once that is determined then you can create a detailed plan (SEO, Exposure, Social Media, Forums, etc) of attack.

            Then you execute it.

            This is just the basic framework... takes more work to implement of course.

            FYI: In your case, I believe you must be more proactive in finding your clients than waiting for them to find you. Your work is very good and just needs the right exposure.

            Let me know if you have any questions and I'll try to help.
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            • Profile picture of the author toivo
              Fantrom: Seriously enjoyed your insights. I am merely a "creator" of content. Generally, launching it properly through digital expertise is NOT my forte but the longer I render pages and SEO my site, the more interest I get in regards to web editing and marketing. Ironically, along with your email came this inquiry:

              Dear Dan,

              Congrats on some really entertaining cartoons. I googled "Directors responsibilities" and got your image "Business Cartoon 147" of the meeting where the caption reads that capital was raised by selling souls.

              I would love to use this on my website as inspiration for a blog post about what we do for our work.



              I won't post the rest, but it is a reflection of the potential my site has....she is very interested in my work, and my images are actually being indexed by Google, so I also try to give my existing images unique file names when I rebuilt my site. Bloggers and web designers occasional request licensing my work and as you are well aware, the Digital Millenium Copyright act provides image content providers like myself, alot of flexibilty in the unique area of "image licensing"...we can offer our work at negotiable fees. All work like mine, is immediately copyrighted when I create that work (based on the updated copyright laws enforced by the Berne Convention years ago) and additionally protected by the DCMA which I try to mention on my site. I did mention to someone how I wanted to also avoid relying too much on wp plugins and only have a handful activated on this site of mine but the one which gives me some flexibility is a unique image uploading plug in that it helps me create separate "post pages" for every comic I upload via my image library. Thus the 8500 separate pages (probably more!) and I can also give each image special keyword tags . . . probably another reason she just found one of my images in the Google index like that. Without boring you further or having to read a whole lot into what I do, I just wanted to let you know I appreciate it and explain this a bit further...why I feel more traffic should be coming my way but with a server that has these sporadic outages, that's where my apprehensions and frustratiuons come into the equation. I enjoy this forum and have gleaned alot....thank you (note: I registered here LONG ago when I first began experimenting with HTML using Frontpage lol!)
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