Database Rapidly Growing In Size

  • Hello!

    I’m not sure if anyone has ever experienced something like this, but my Hosting Provider is deleting my database without warning because its rapidly growing in size from 3Gb to 47Gb overnight.

    They do restore it, but its never long enough to investigate thorougly before they delete it again!

    Things I’ve done in my search for a resolution:
    – Disabled all Cron Jobs in the wp-config file.
    – Reverted to the default .htaccess file.
    – Disabled and deleted all unnecessary and unused plugins.

    Any ideas???

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Do you know what sort of records are being added? Transients in wp_options? Without more information, it’s hard to get a handle on it.

    Install the plugin “wp-optimize” and enable it just to get some idea of that’s going on. https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-optimize/

    By the way, a 3GB database is pretty darn big all on its own. Do you really mean database or files? If it’s files, rather than the database, please let me know what plugins are active on your site.

    Thread Starter cavtec

    (@cavtec)

    Hi Steve,

    Thanks for replying.

    One more bullet point you could add was in fact what you suggested. I installed WP-Optimise and ran that in between having the website restored and then deleted again. From what I seen, there wasnt that much to optimise.

    This is a large eCommerce website, which probably explains the 3GB.

    This is what the Hosting Company says:

    We are contacting you with regard to a database on your account called xxxxxxxxxxxxx attached to the hosting package yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.com. Your database reached 47G in size, which exceeds a threshold of 3.8G. It is quite likely that a single table within your database was causing the problem. This is especially likely if you’re running a forum, they can quickly become very large in size if they have been subjected to automated spam. Very large databases do negatively impact server performance, and this has been done to prevent serious issues for other users. If you require a backup of the database restoring, you can let us know and this can be retrieved for you.

    ******

    I’ve looked at the database and I can report the following:

    wp_postmeta has ~164,000 rows which translates to 44Mb
    wp_ewwwio_images has ~45,000 rows which translates to 21Mb
    – I’ve actually deleted this plugin last week(!?) but the table is still in the DB

    In contrast, wp_options has ~6,598 which translates to 6Mb

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    I’m wondering if spambots are generating reviews on those products. If so, try clearing out the spammed reviews (or maybe turn off reviews entirely).

    If you deleted the ewwwio plugin, you can drop that one table.

    Keep an eye on the site and sort the tables by number of rows to see if you can see where the bulk is coming from.

    Thread Starter cavtec

    (@cavtec)

    They’ve just restored the database, so I’m just running a backup now and running a couple of scans to see if there are any signs of malicious scripts/code.

    Steve, thanks for the feedback.

    Again, If anyone else has experienced this “bloating” of their database, and if you found a solution, I’d be interested to hear your experiences.

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