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What am I supposed to do with 1GB Free Space Windows VPS
It's a Black Friday @virmach deal $20 / year windows VPS. But after the OS, the free space is only 1GB. What am I supposed to do with that ? Any idea ? Right now it is idling for a almost a year.
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Are you sure you can't win some space back?
What is the original space? If it is 10 or more GB, then, you should have more than 1 GB free with some tweaking...
Now, you have a desktop windows vps. Why did you buy it in the first place? Use it for that.
Anyway, you can use it as a remote windows desktop for browsing via rdp, testing remotely some software you don't want to run locally and many other things.
Install a real operating system.
You can map OneDrive or Google Drive space as a Windows-visible drive
It's a fresh install. I doubt it. > @jvnadr said:
Well, it's a Windows server. It took a bunch of memory. The original space is 10GB++. Maybe 16Gb.
No can do with Google drive. Tried it.
Those 2 above will remove all the old-version component as well as downloaded updates from Windows
This would free you some space without harming your OS.
Running Windows cleanup is another thing but I wouldn't expect it to free much space (few MBs maybe) since you've been mostly idle it anyways (so no temp files etc).
Hope it helps
Are you sure you're all that interested in computers, tech, VPS, etc? Most of us would have just googled freeing up space in Windows and configured a default install long before asking a pointless question like this. Do you need people to plan out your hobbies and interests, too?
If I’m not mistaken, I just bumped your “Indonesian Domain Reseller” thread recently...
Use it to browse pornhub anonymously... or donate it to me...
Jokes aside,
As mentioned by @Oseri
Onedrive has exactly that feature now with Files On Demand. I am not aware of anyway of doing it with any other Cloud service.
For only £6 a month, you can get 1TB of Onedrive space, and as a bonus, you get the full MS Office chucked in free (actually it is other way round - you lease MS Office and get 1TB free).
Nothing else comes close to it in terms of value, and you get Files on Demand.
No contest really.
You get 5GB free anyway. Suggest you play with that and then decide if you want to go for MS Office deal.
In the end, free usage is fairly limited in capacity and really only suitable for critical data eg photos, word docs.
For big stuff eg videos, audio you will need to lease capacity. Then onedrive comes into its own with MS Office lease.
I think Google Drive mapped network drive also has this files on demand feature.
I've also searched online and found a handful of products offerings including:
NetDrive
TNT Drive
Cloudberry Drive
ExpanDrive
CloudMounter
SME
Thanks for the tips. Will definitely try it.
I have office 365 subscription. Maybe I will use that. I believe Google drive doesn't have this kind of capability.
Did you try mounting with rclone? It should work.
If it's Windows 10 (maybe it's also in server 2016?) you can try this https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mniehaus/2015/09/16/windows-10-reducing-the-disk-footprint/
compact.exe /CompactOS:alwaysFrees several GBs of disk space.
Use some space on one of your other idle servers, create some iscsi targets and attach them to the windows server, move your user profiles etc over to that and you are good to go.
Get a webdav storage, mount it, browse torrent and download it to the webdav storage.
Use another computer to download the torrent
But But that involves more then point and click. Which ruins the Winshit philosophy.
can you share the link to this offer?