Are there any best practices or recommended methods for accurately calculating and displaying the size of a folder in PHP, especially when dealing with web hosting environments?

When calculating and displaying the size of a folder in PHP, especially in web hosting environments, it is important to consider the limitations of the hosting environment and the potential impact on server performance. One recommended method is to recursively iterate through the files and subfolders within the target folder, summing up their sizes to calculate the total size of the folder accurately. 

function getFolderSize($dir){
    $total_size = 0;
    $files = scandir($dir);

    foreach($files as $file){
        if($file != '.' && $file != '..'){
            if(is_file($dir.'/'.$file)){
                $total_size += filesize($dir.'/'.$file);
            }
            if(is_dir($dir.'/'.$file)){
                $total_size += getFolderSize($dir.'/'.$file);
            }
        }
    }

    return $total_size;
}

$folder_path = '/path/to/folder';
$folder_size = getFolderSize($folder_path);
echo "Folder size: " . $folder_size . " bytes";

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