Cache folder explodes past host file limits
Cache folder grows to hundreds of thousands of files, hitting shared hosting file limits and freezing sites, and deleting them by hand takes days.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
8 public reports · first reported 15 January 2023 · last reported 11 July 2026
What's going wrong
Many owners on shared hosting report that the cache folder grows from a few thousand files to 200,000 or more, sometimes up to a million.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 8 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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