I migrated my blog from blogger to WordPress.org using BlueHost back in August. I’ve got about 180 blog posts total, most were migrated so need to be cleaned up. Each post has (should have) on average ~6 images and a few paragraphs of text. I have a total of 190 media files uploaded according to WP (I need to upload more as blogger lost quite a few which is why I migrated).
I’m at WP 6.0.2 and I use Elementor Pro with the twenty twenty one theme. For plugins I have bluehost, elementor, formunator, mailpoet, jet pack, updraftplus, and WP code.
Today I could not upload new content and after chatting with tech support it appears I’ve hit the inode limit even though I have unlimited space. The upload errors out saying the /home4 device is full.
I was able to delete the one backup and my staging site and this allowed me to upload 4 images. However, when I looked in cPanel at the /wp-content/uploads/2022/10/ directory it had 40 files. For each image there were 9 added files of the same image at a different resolution. Looking at ../09/ it was the same.
1. Is this normal? Should I expect 10x media files?
2. Is there a setting to reduce this? I’ve walked through all menu items in my WP dashboard and cannot find anything.
3. Is there something else I can change to keep the file count (inode value) down?
This “feels” off. I sort of understand the linux inode limit, but I have a small site and this seems a bit early.
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