Let’s say your website is about 300 megabytes total but your cPanel control panel is reporting 1000 megabytes. Why is this happening you may ask? The very first thing you need to check is to see if you have any files located in your trash bin from the cPanel file manager link. If you do delete all files that you no longer need.

The next item you need to look at is if you have any backups stored on your account. Most backups are going to be located in your /home directory not your public_html directory. Now remove the backups if you no longer need them.

The last place and most common area to use up your disk space is the temp folder. Temp folder will store all your log files for programs like Urchin,Analog,Webalizer and Awstats. If you are not using statistic programs you can turn them off in your cPanel control by clicking the link statistics configuration. You will still need to delete the files that each program has created. In your temp folder you will see each program where you can delete the files. You can do this even if you plan on using statistics. Remove the profiles you do not want. Now close your browser and clear the browser cache. Log back into cPanel and you should see the change. If you do not then you need to contact support to help you with the issue.