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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 consumig 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
fees.
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