WHM & CPanel server went completely down from Disk Quota Exceeded
I'm somewhat frantic right now because of the issue that my website is facing so please excuse me if this isn't my most elaborate explanation of an issue ever. I was attempting to send an email from a webmail account on my server. First indication of this issue that I faced was a 452 error, saying there was no space left to compose the email. I then tried reloading the actual website, it hangs upon on likely a related issue, and then even my 500 error page won't display because Laravel tries to send an email on exception, so now every page of my website is now a stack trace to a failed mkdir() command. Looking in Cpanel, it says my account is only using 23GB of storage, out of infinity, so I have no clue how I'm out of space. Trying to load my WHM to see if there is an actual limit on storage for the account returns a 500 error, Error ID 5e6e3cc30597. I've tried finding anything about this issue, and I can't find anything anywhere relating to this particular set of issues. I've tried deleting files just to get enough space to go back into WHM but I can't even delete anything because apparently deleting files is attempting to write something somewhere, which it can't. I feel utterly stuck and powerless. Now I can't even get into Terminal because of an invalid frame header, so I'm now trying to SSH in so I can manually rm a directory to free up space.
EDIT 1 - I figured I'd try to log out of Cpanel and log back in to see if that was part of the issue, now I've lost all control because now the Cpanel login page displays an error 500 instead of any login or anything. So now I have literally 0 access to the server and will likely have to contact the hosting provider to regain control.
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Ended up being out of space as message explained, server host expanded disk quota which fixed all of the issues. Also makes sense why it said I had infinite space, as I had infinite space on that account but not on the server as a whole. This still leaves weirdness though, as by going through the server with du every which way, I still couldn't find any large files taking up the extra 100 gigs that aren't within my admin account. 0 -
Hey there! I'm sorry to hear about this disk quota issue on the machine. You mentioned trying to load WHM on the machine, but your forums user profile shows you don't have root access to the system. Do you indeed have root access to the server? If so, I can update your profile to reflect that for the future. If you do have root access it would be best to run this command on the server to see the overall disk usage: cd / du -h --max-depth 1
as that would show the overall disk usage on the entire machine. More details about tracking down usage with that command can be found here:0 -
Hey there! I'm sorry to hear about this disk quota issue on the machine. You mentioned trying to load WHM on the machine, but your forums user profile shows you don't have root access to the system. Do you indeed have root access to the server? If so, I can update your profile to reflect that for the future. If you do have root access it would be best to run this command on the server to see the overall disk usage:
cd / du -h --max-depth 1
as that would show the overall disk usage on the entire machine. More details about tracking down usage with that command can be found here:0 -
If run from the root directory I would expect that to work well. If you have root access to the system you're always welcome to open a support ticket with our team so we can examine the system directly for you. 0
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