Magento causes MySQL to take up large amounts of disk space

Symptoms

On servers hosting Magento websites, MySQL's disk usage will grow extremely fast.

Description 

Magento logs to MySQL by default and does not automatically remove log data. This causes the Magento MySQL database to grow each time a user visits the site.

Workaround

Here is a third-party document discussing how to address this issue.

mysql data size keep increase to 36 GB(or more until hdd full) | Magento StackExchange

In that document, running PHP from the command-line is mentioned. Here is a relevant document:

How to run PHP commands via Terminal

And here is the relevant document for configuring cron jobs:

Cron Jobs | cPanel Documentation