Your account allows you to maintain
your site, store incoming and outgoing mail for
your mailboxes, create and manage databases. Your
hosting provider sells you services and disk space
for these resources on his servers. Your control
panel allows you to monitor and manage your disk
space usage. This document covers the following
disk space management issues:
Summary
Disk Usage
To monitor your Disk
Usage refer to the Disk Usage bar in Control
/ Info area on the left below the traffic bar:
It shows how much FTP
(web), mail and DB disk space all together you are
using of your Disk Usage limit. It shows:
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the Last Day Usage
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every 24 hours all servers
(web, mail, MySQL, etc.) are scanned, and
all actually used disk space is summarized
to make your Summary Disk Usage for the
last day;
b) the Avg (Average Usage) for the
current disk usage cycle (one month length
regardless of your billing period) of your
Disk Usage Limit
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for billing purposes, the
system also monitors your average disk usage
for the disk usage cycle. From the beginning
of this cycle, summary readings of each
daily scan are added up, and the cumulative
amount is divided by the number of days
elapsed since the cycle starting date.
Disk Usage Limit doesn't stop you
from using more disk space. If you exceed
your Disk Usage Limit you will be charged
overlimit fee for it. Keep in mind exccessive
usage above what your plan allows will cause
your account to be suspend once it reachs
120% of your limit. To reactivate your account
you will need to pay the approatate usage
fees. Before suspension, you will be notified
by e-mail that you are approaching your
limit.
However, you can change your Disk Usage
limit, in this case:
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Your current disk usage
cycle is closed.
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You are refunded recurrent
fee for the days remaining to the end
of the disk usage cycle.
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Your disk usage limit
is prorated to the days elapsed from the
beginning of the disk usage cycle. And
if your average disk usage is more than
this, you are charged extra fee for the
overlimit.
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A new disk usage cycle
is opened.
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If you are increasing
your disk usage limit, you will usually
pay recurrent fee for the increased amount,
which is usually less than extra/usage
fee.
* Your hosting plan can prevent you from
setting very high Disk Usage limit.
FTP or Disk Quota
Disk Quota statistics
can be found in your FTP manager:
Every 24 hours the system
scans your home FTP directory to see how much web
disk is used under your account. It shows how much
FTP disk space you are using out of your Disk
Quota.
When you reach your Disk Limit, the system will
not let you upload anything into your FTP home directory.
You cannot store more MBs than your Disk Quota allows.
You will need to change this setting if you increase
your Summary Disk Usage. There are no charges for
increasing this limit.
Mailbox
Quota
For each of your mailboxes
you get some default amount of disk space for storing
incoming and outgoing mail. Load statistics for
each of your mailbox can be found in the Properties
section for every individual mailbox:
It shows how much disk space you are using out of
your mailbox quota. You can't store more MBs than
your mailbox quota allows. You can change your mailbox
quota, by clicking the Change icon next to
the statistics readings for each individual mailbox
(see image above). This allows you to manage e-mail
account usage of your summary disk usage.
