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Disk Space
Your account allows you to host your Web site, 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.
In this chapter:
Summary Disk Usage ........................................................................................ 130
Disk Space Billing .............................................................................................. 131
Individual Resource Quotas .............................................................................. 131
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 databases 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 (on page 139)
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:
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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. 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:
individual resource quotas
summary disk usage
Charges for Individual Resource Quotas
When you increase:
FTP, mailbox or Microsoft SQL quota, you are charged recurrent fee for billing
period resources;
MySQL/PostgreSQL database quota, you are charged recurrent fee for monthly
resources.
Read more about it in Online Prices (on page 140) section.
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 fees.
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Individual Resource Quotas
Quotas are set separately for your home directory, each mailbox and database 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 and ) and will get an error message if you try to do so. Periodically (e.g., every 5 min.) the system scans your home FTP directory, mailboxes and databases 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.
To upload more MB than the resource
‟s quota allows, you can increase it for:
your home directory (on page 17)
mailbox (on page 74)
MySQL database (on page 168)
PostgreSQL database (on page 175)
Microsoft SQL database (on page 180)
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.
