How Can I Increase the Storage Space on My Website?
Remove Old Image and Documents
Removing old images and other files on your site when you no longer need them is always a good idea. Whenever you change or delete a page and find images or documents used on that page that you will no longer need, go into your Media Folder and PRM-Web Dropbox folders and delete them.
We also recommend cleaning out your Media Folder and PRM-Web Dropbox folders at least once or twice a year, removing all the old, unused items that you may have missed. This typically frees up many MBs of storage space.
TinyPNG - JPEG, PNG & WebP image compression
This plugin compresses the size of your images without reducing the quality. We recommend using it for every single image used on your site. It comes automatically included on all of our sites, and it automatically compresses new images as you add them.
If you don't see this plugin listed on your site, please contact your Website administrator or tickets@gsu.uservoice.com.
*Once added to your site, and due to this process using a lot of server resources, please only perform the site-wide compression procedure after business hours, when less people are using the site.
Document Storage and Dropbox
Another way that we save storage space on our sites is to move all of your documents (PDF, MS Word, Excel, etc.) to a specially-created website, Dropbox, for your department/college/school, and then link them to your webpages on your site. (Note: Only move public documents to your PRM-Web-NAME Dropbox folder. All internal documents should be placed in Sharepoint or your unit's Dropbox folder.)
NOTE: If your site storage usage is over 85% and you need to remove older files to recover space, please submit a ticket to tickets@gsu.uservoice.com.
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