Web Storage
When you own an e-commerce store, running out of storage space on your web hosting server is quite often. When a storage space starts to get full, it affects your website performance. In addition, it may prevent you from growing your website, obtaining more data, or even updating your store.
To avoid upgrading to a larger hosting package, the first step is to declutter what’s in there.
This section allows managing your website’s data, which includes total disk usage, deletion of stored data, moving files to cloud storage, and managing web storage either by deleting cache/temp files or by optimizing the website images.
The Manage Web Storage section is divided into three sub-sections as discussed -
With the first section, you can get real-time data of total disk usage. The data usage is divided into several main folders, which gives a precise idea to the admin of its storage usage.
This section allows the admin to delete the Cache and all the Temp Data. It will also delete all the user templates and images.
Once the admin clicks on the Confirm Delete button, the system will ask for a confirmation and once confirmed it will delete the data.
Apart from deleting the cache, the admin can delete website data i.e. can clear storage space, which is no longer in use. This data may include orders, portfolios, images, etc. in time duration ranging from two months to two years.
Look at how to delete data based on different criteria-
User Type
Select the user type of whom you want to delete the data. The option selected can be Default Stores, All Stores, Any Specific Store, or six months before logged in user.
Select Period
Here, you need to select the period for which you are willing to delete the data. The admin will need to select any of the five tenure options:
- Two Months before - All the data dating two months back will be deleted i.e. two months before today's date.
- Three Months Before - All the data before dating three months back will be deleted i.e. three months before today's date.
- Six Months Before - All the data before dating six months back will be deleted i.e. six months before today's date.
- One Year Before - All the data before dating one year back will be deleted i.e. one year before today's date.
- Two Years Before - All the data dating two years back will be deleted i.e. two years before today's date.
Delete For
Now, it is time to select the user folder that you want to delete permanently from your website storage. It has four sub-options:
- Orders: This will delete only ordered Print Ready Files and the database record will remain as it is. Users cannot reorder the deleted Print Ready Files but can view them.
- Portfolio: This will delete all the user-created designs i.e. user portfolio from their account and forbid them from accessing the files.
- Images: This will delete user images that one might have uploaded from various means such as Facebook or Google Photos. The images will be deleted from their account permanently and they would need to re-upload in case they want to use the photos again.
- Quotes: This will be helpful to clear the unnecessary storage space occupied by Quotes.
Depending on the folder the Admin chooses to delete, the admin will get additional options to choose:
- Select Order Type & Product Type (For Orders): Once the Orders is selected in the above field, there are options to delete either Normal Orders, Archive Orders, or Unpaid Orders. Also, you need to specify the Product Type for the data to be deleted.
- Select Portfolio Design From & Product Type (For Portfolio): In the portfolio, you need to select portfolio design types like the Uploaded Design or the Studio Design along with the Product Type.
- Select Image Type (For Images): When the admin selects Images in the Delete for field, further 3 options will be provided; User Images, Master Images or Common Images.
- Quote Type (For Quotes): For Quotes, the admin can choose if they want to delete the data for Ordered Quotes, Unordered Quotes, or both.