Stripping down eZ publish to save webspace
January 21st, 2006
As I don’t want to spend too much money on my webhosting, I only payed for 50 MB of webspace. A full distribution of eZ publish 3.7.3 takes 40 MB. So only 10 MB would be left for custom designs, file uploads etc. And I haven’t mentioned yet that also the size of my MySQL database is taken into account…
I did some investigation (you can do this yourself with du or WinDirStat) to see which parts of the eZ publish distribution require much disk space, and I came to a terrific conclusion: the share/translations directory takes up 22 MB! You can safely remove all unneeded translations, and what remains is an eZ publish distribution with only half the size of the original one.
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1. ?ukasz | January 22nd, 2006 at 8:43 pm
Yes, share/translations takes a lot of space. I remember that once I reduced eZ publish size to less then 14 MB ( it was around version 3.3 ). You can remove unneeded files from share/translations but also you can remove:
- doc
- update
- support
- design/base (if you will not use it)
- packages (if you installed packages, and you are sure that you will not use other, you can remove them)
- lib (here you can remove for example PDF if you will not use it, fonts takes some space
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