How much space space does my website take?

Question

I am looking at changing webhosts. My new host wants to know how big my website is in MB or GB. I have no idea on how to find that information out as it isnt in my control panel that my current host offers. Is there are website that can measure this for me? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

Presumably you have a local copy of your website, that is a copy stored on your computer? Windows (or any other OS) will tell you the size of a directory very easily.

If you also have a database you should factor this in - your database control panel (php myAdmin for example) should definately tell you the size of the database.

If you don't have a local copy then I strongly suggest you look at getting one (by downloading all the files on the site via FTP) - that way if anything happens to your site, you have a backup.

Answer 2

I a not sure there is any tool that can reliably tell you this, as unless every file was linked on the site, the tool could not find it. I would just look at the maximum figure your current provider allows and buy a service that allows at least that much. If the current providers control panel does not offer such basic information, then you need to dump them. You might want to look at Lunar Pages, I am leaning to them to replace my current provider hostingplex because they are horrible!

Answer 3

that means what is the total file size of all your html, etc. files.

If you can't get that directly from your current host, download them to your computer into a folder, and get the file size from that (right click and select properties on the folder).

Answer 4

if you have copies of these files on your hard drive open windows explorer and you'll see the the amount in each each folder