(2011-04-26) Blue Host Too Many Moin Files

Oy, Blue Host is complaining my MoinMoin site server has too many files (200k). * This is causing performance problems on your website as well as for other customers that are on this server. It can cause our servers to crash and cause additional downtime. Our research shows that server performance degrades when accounts have over 50,000 files. In order to ensure optimal performance for your account and the others in your shared hosting environment, we request that you reduce the number of files on your account to under 50,000 in 14 days.* What the heck am I going to do about this?

One user points me [at](http://moinmo.in/Help On Moin Command#moin_...maint_reducewiki...) maint_reducewiki.

May10 update: got a 2nd warning a week ago. Today got shut down.

• ultimate cause was that, back when trying to set up this server, to have multiple MoinMoin spaces, I left a moin.cgi in a bad place, and had never turned on any protection for that space. So 1 page had 80k edits in the past couple months, each of which was a revision file.
• so I: renamed the moin.cgi and confirmed that nothing else got broken; deleted those 80k revisions files.