I was looking for more space because I have exhausted the 500k nodes limit for my account. But all my domains remains with them.
500,000 inodes exhausted??!!
How on earth did you do that??!! My limit is only 300,000 and in 4 websites, only 43,411 has been exhausted i.e. 14.47% which will come down .. how.. I will explain later. So, 10,852.75, rounded off to 11,000 nodes per website. So, in 300,000 inodes limit, I can host 27.77, i.e. 27 websites. Now, I take the number down from 27 to 20. Now, from 20 websites (obviously they will renew), I could get a Namecheap Pulsar VPS package. But I will not do that. I would not go for VPS, instead I will go for bigger shared hosting package or another shared hosting account with my current package and that way I would have 600k inodes limit and with that I would be able to host another 20 websites at least. So, my point is, though I don't know which VPS package you had there, but if you use that for business and exhausted 500k inodes limit, then you are earning a very big amount with which you could go for another package with a different account in Namecheap. But you didn't. So, I think you should revise your business model. But if you use that space for your own entertaining purposes, then it's a completely different story.
Now, how I am managing or lowering the inodes number? I have 2 customers (don't laugh... I have bought this Shared Hosting package since last 6 months though I am with Namecheap for last 6+ years because my forum is 6+ years old). Those 2 websites are built on WordPress. I have designed them and I host only my customers' website because I sell total package... Website development, Domain, Hosting, SSL and extra addons if required. The other two websites are my own... one is a forum built on Xenforo and another one is my own company website. My own website is built on WordPress also with Woocommerce, a ticket system, a knowledge base system and a phpBB forum for my customers. Now what I did, I have deleted all pictures and icons which I have replaced with custom images and those which have come with the theme's data but no longer required. In forums I have used external image hosts. I take monthly backups and download them and then delete them from server permanently. In this way, I keep my inodes number in limit.
For your virus problem: You should use resources from Babiato only and
download only those resources which have been uploaded by reputed members. To get rid of the virus from your server, you should make a clean format of your VPS and then reinstall everything. Before reinstalling, check your backup files with Virustotal. Before Babiato, I downloaded from various crack sites and twice my installations were infected by virus. Fortunately that happened on my localhost i.e in my pc and I had to delete all files from my local installations. Now, I download only from Babiato and never faced any virus related problem. When I would have 10 website customers, I will start donate to Babiato, that is my wish because Babiato gave me a lot. And another thing you should keep in mind,
cheap doesn't always comes for cheap, instead cheap things cost us more in other ways, whether it is a product or a service. BTW, I use Avira FREE antivirus in my PC for last 12+ years and never faced any virus problem.
Note: Sorry for the lengthy essay.
