Hi,
I'm trying to understand how the disk space quota works for resellers in WHM. As far as I can tell, mailbox quotas form part of the overall disk space limit. Firstly, is that right? If so, is there any way this can be changed?
My scenario is that I want to be able to sell disk space for web storage, and I don't want to provide loads by default because I don't want customers using their web space as a file store when they don't need to.
For example, I think 100 MB is more than enough to start with for web space.
However, as far as I can tell, the mailboxes with a domain also use the same disk space. As such, if that same customer had 20 mailboxes, each with (for instance) a 50 MB quota, then I need to raise the total disk space allocation to at least 1000 MB to cover the mailboxes, and an extra 100 MB for the original disk space.
But then there's nothing stopping the website file storage from gobbling up the whole 1100 MB of disk space.
This presents two problems (which I shouldn't need to spell out, but I will); Firstly, there's little point in enacting a 100 MB web space limit, because it includes mailbox capacity as well, and can just be used up willy-nilly. Secondly, any overuse of the disk space from website storage then reduces the capacity of the mailboxes.
However, here is my real world scenario: a customer with a 100 MB website storage limit, and a 2 GB single mailbox size limit. It's not possible, as far as I can tell.
Am I barking mad, or is that just the way it is?
Cheers!
Al,
I'm trying to understand how the disk space quota works for resellers in WHM. As far as I can tell, mailbox quotas form part of the overall disk space limit. Firstly, is that right? If so, is there any way this can be changed?
My scenario is that I want to be able to sell disk space for web storage, and I don't want to provide loads by default because I don't want customers using their web space as a file store when they don't need to.
For example, I think 100 MB is more than enough to start with for web space.
However, as far as I can tell, the mailboxes with a domain also use the same disk space. As such, if that same customer had 20 mailboxes, each with (for instance) a 50 MB quota, then I need to raise the total disk space allocation to at least 1000 MB to cover the mailboxes, and an extra 100 MB for the original disk space.
But then there's nothing stopping the website file storage from gobbling up the whole 1100 MB of disk space.
This presents two problems (which I shouldn't need to spell out, but I will); Firstly, there's little point in enacting a 100 MB web space limit, because it includes mailbox capacity as well, and can just be used up willy-nilly. Secondly, any overuse of the disk space from website storage then reduces the capacity of the mailboxes.
However, here is my real world scenario: a customer with a 100 MB website storage limit, and a 2 GB single mailbox size limit. It's not possible, as far as I can tell.
Am I barking mad, or is that just the way it is?
Cheers!
Al,
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