--- title: "Servers, hosting and laptops · Space Wizard" description: "The 2am disk alarm, a hosting fleet, and the laptop that has run out of room." url: "https://royalsoftworks.com/products/space-wizard/use-cases/servers-and-laptops/" source: "https://royalsoftworks.com" format: "markdown" note: "Markdown rendering of the HTML page at `url`. Same content, same canonical URL." --- Use cases · 1 of 2 # Servers, hosting and laptops. The 2am disk alarm, a hosting fleet, and the laptop that has run out of room. Sysadmins & DevOps ## "/ is at 96%" — and it's 2am. The challenge.The alert fires, you SSH in, and you're piping du through sort trying to remember the flags, one directory at a time, over a link that makes every round trip hurt. With Space Wizard.Connect once over SFTP and the whole filesystem comes back in a single \`find\` pass, rendered as a chart you can drill into. The offending folder is the biggest bar on screen, and you can clear the duplicate tarballs from the same window. - One command streams the whole tree — not a round trip per directory - \`df\` mounts listed up front, so you scan the filesystem that's actually full - Duplicate hashing runs on the server; only hashes come back - Saved connections with keys, agent auth, and a start folder per host Hosting & managed services ## Forty boxes, one recurring disk problem. The challenge.Customer VMs fill up in the same predictable ways — old backups, rotated logs that never rotated out, build caches — and every investigation starts from scratch on a machine you've never looked at before. With Space Wizard.Keep every host as a saved connection and reach for the same view each time. The parallelism is per-host, so a fast local VM and a slow remote one each get a sensible number of connections. - SFTP, FTPS or FTP — including hosts with no shell and no SFTP subsystem - 1–16 parallel connections, tuned per host - Host-key verification refuses a server that changed identity - Works on accounts that are locked down to their home directory Personal & work laptops ## "Storage almost full" — now what? The challenge.The OS warning gives you a number and no explanation, and the built-in tools stop at broad categories that never point at the actual folder. With Space Wizard.A scan shows the biggest folder at every level, and the Duplicates tab clears the easy wins in the same pass. The free tier covers the whole home drive at up to 100 GB per scan. - Bar or donut breakdown that follows you as you drill down - One-click duplicate clear, straight to the recycle bin - Cloud-sync folders skipped, so the numbers are real local bytes [Previous Use cases: all 2 pages](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/space-wizard/use-cases/) [Next Dev boxes, shared machines and migrations.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/space-wizard/use-cases/workstations-and-migrations/) [All of Space Wizard use cases](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/space-wizard/use-cases/)