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Introduction. Disk Space Concepts
Your account allows you to host your website, store
incoming and outgoing mail, create and manage databases. These
tasks require disk space on the hosting servers provided to
you through individual
resource quotas. Your account's plan may be, also,
configured with summary
disk usage to control disk space usage on an overall basis
for all your disk space consuming resources combined
together.
Individual Resource Quotas
Quotas are set separately for your home directory,
each mailbox and DB and define how many MB you can store in
it. You can't upload and store more MB than the resource's
quota allows (except for MySQL
DBs and PgSQL
DBs) and will get an error message if you try to do so.
Every 5 minutes the system scans your home FTP directory,
mailboxes and DBs to see how much disk space is being used and
updates the corresponding quota usage readings, so you can
always check how many MB are being used by the resource and
how many more MB can be uploaded.
Increasing Quotas
To upload more MB than the resource's quota allows, you can
increase it.
Learn how to increase quota for:
Resources' quotas can be max
restricted which means you won't be able to increase it
any higher when this limit is reached. To check how much you
can increase your quotas to, go to Billing ->
Online price and check the Max field in the
quota's entry.
Summary Disk Usage
Average and Last Day Summary Disk Usage
Every 24 hours the system scans your FTP home directory,
each of your mailboxes and DBs to summarize disk space used by
these resources which makes summary disk usage for the last
day. Summary readings of each daily scan are added up and
divided by days elapsed from the beginning of the billing
month to make your average summary disk usage. If your hosting plan is configured
with the summary disk usage resource, you will see both
figures on your Account -> Quick Access page:
Summary Disk Usage Limit
Free disk space allocated for all your disk space consuming
resources makes your initial summary disk usage limit.
However, it doesn't stop you from using more disk space as quotas
do. If you exceed it, you will be charged overlimit fees (for
details see Charges
for Summary Disk Usage). To prevent it, increase your
summary disk usage limit clicking the Edit icon
next to the summary
disk usage bar and entering a new summary disk usage
limit. Summary disk usage limit can be max
restricted which means you won't be able to increase it
any higher when this limit is reached. To check how much you
can increase your quotas to, go to Billing ->
Online price and check the Max field in the
summary disk usage entry.
Keep in mind that your hosting plan can be configured to
suspend your account if you use your summary disk usage
limit by certain percent. Before suspension, you would be
usually warned by e-mail of approaching your limit.
Disk Space Billing
Depending on your account's plan configuration you can be
charged for disk space based on:
Charges for Individual Resource Quotas
When you increase:
Charges for Summary Disk Usage
If by the end of the billing
month your average
summary disk usage exceeds summary
disk usage limit, you are charged usage
(overlimit) fees.
If you increase your summary
disk usage limit, every month you will be charged recurrent
fee which is usually less than usage
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