WordPress and Host Gator Part Two

For those who visited and commented on my WordPress and Host Gator post the other day, thank you all. After learning something new the other day, I’m sharing my WordPress and Host Gator Part Two.

I especially want to give a big shout out and thank you to my blogger friend Kandas for sharing with me some information I didn’t know! Be sure to visit Kandas Rodarte blog for some interesting topics!

Customer support from Host Gator was excellent and very patient with me when I was lost in what they were trying to explain. The would send my screen shots of what I was supposed to click on and showed me my files and uploads totals and what I had to get them down to.

Since I had so many blogs about review products way back from 2014, I decided to just delete many of those photos. But my totals weren’t going down. What I didn’t know until customer support showed me, all the deleted files went into trash so it still counted as being there! After I found the trash tab, I clicked on that and my numbers started going down.

So here’s where Kandas came in, she left a comment on my blog telling me about a plugin that magically resizes the uploads! TinyPNG plugin will automatically compress the images and the free version has a 500 photo monthly limit but as soon as I delete more older photos and manually resize others I will be in good shape.

This is what is so great about both the Ultimate Blog Challenge and our blogger friends, they are always willing to help others. As the saying goes, we are never too old to learn and I would have never figured this out without the help from Kandas recommending this plugin.

So I switched my Hatchling to Baby and went from 10GB to 20GB. I was right about 17G and I still had until the 30th of April to delete more. But as the time was ticking away and having a 500 monthly limit on TinyPNG I was worried whether I could get my 17GB down to maybe 15GB. But then that meant I would always be near the 20GB and I would be afraid of going over. So instead of beating my head against the wall I decided to jump up to Business level where I now have 50GB and that should give me a good cushion at least while I’m downsizing all my photos and files.

There is still so much to learn after my few chats with Host Gator customer service but I’m working on everything one step at a time.

THANK YOU AGAIN KANDAS for helping me out on this!