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Why does df -h still show 100% full even after deleting files?

The disk space on my Ubuntu web server, running on DigitalOcean, seems to be full. I have already found and deleted the large log file and restarted Nginx. However, it still seems like there is a ...
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df showing 28G of total space, du showing size of '/' as 400+ G

I constantly get the unable to write to * error, even though I cleaned up a bunch of space. df thinks my disk is 28G in size and 100% full after I deleted a lot of unused files: $ df -h Filesystem ...
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Ubuntu server: hard drive always full

I have a 50GB vps when I run df I get Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 49982172 46580100 863064 99% / none 507212 ...
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du displaying old results

I ran du -hs to find out how big my /home/user directory was and it reported as 18G. I cleared out almost 4G of data and ran du -hs again to find out how much space I actually saved and it still ...
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