Hostinger Inode Cleanup & Quarantine

I have roughly 554,442 inodes on my Hostinger account and the limit is getting uncomfortably close. I want to bring that number down by removing anything the active sites no longer need—old backups, log files, cached or temporary data, unused media, duplicate plugin or theme folders—without disturbing live functionality.

The job is a one-time sweep, not an ongoing maintenance plan. Your task is to identify every genuinely unused file or folder, move it to a quarantine area that sits safely outside public_html for my review, and then delete it permanently once I give the green light. Throughout the process the all live production sites hosted here must stay online with zero broken links or missing assets.

Deliverables
• Pre-cleanup inode count captured and shared
• Comprehensive audit of unused files/folders, grouped in a quarantine directory
• Post-cleanup inode count and short report outlining what was removed
• Full cPanel or SSH backup created before you touch anything

Acceptance criteria
– No downtime or functional errors on any live site
– Noticeable inode reduction confirmed by before/after numbers
– Quarantine structure clearly documented so I can verify contents

Familiarity with Hostinger’s hPanel, SSH, and tools like ncdu, find, rsync, and lsof will help you move quickly. If you’ve done similar clean-ups, let me know the results you achieved—then we can get this storage footprint back under control.