Unlimited Space

[blackcou]

I am trying to transfer a substantial website to X10 I' seem to have reached the upload limit and would like to have my unlimited space unlocked, I can't upload any more my FTP software aborts if I try.

 

[Dead-i]

Hi,

Some of the files on your account exceed 10MB. On our free hosting service, we automatically delete individual files that exceed 10MB, to prevent customers from abusing our web hosting service and using it for file sharing.

FILE HOSTING: Hosting accounts may not be used to store backups, personal files, or non-web accessible files. Any files hosted on the account must be directly related to the website the account is intended for. Files over 10MB in size will be automatically removed from non-upgraded accounts.

Thank you,

 

[blackcou]

Hi,

Some of the files on your account exceed 10MB. On our free hosting service, we automatically delete individual files that exceed 10MB, to prevent customers from abusing our web hosting service and using it for file sharing.



Thank you,

In that case your hosting service is unsuitable, 10MB is ridiculously small, a typical Photo from my camera exceeds this. There is no point in my trying to host a decent website on your system, I shall therefore remove all my files.

 

[Dead-i]

Hi,

If your website genuinely expects browsers to download several 10MB+ images on a webpage, I would highly suggest you compress these images. This would help visitors on poorer or limited internet connections to view your site, and significantly boost your website's loading speeds. Photos on a website are usually less than a megabyte.

In any case, I'm sorry that you are disappointed with our free hosting service, and I wish you the best of luck at your new hosting provider.

Thank you,

 

[blackcou]

Actually the way pages are structured small Thumbnails are usually displayed on the page and linked to larger high res ones which can be viewed or not as the visitor chooses.

 

[essellar]

10MB is still way too high unless you're shooting medium format. "Fine" is great for a lot of things, but it's way overkill for the web (unless you're doing hardware reviews); try using a JPEG optimizer. (The JPEG format allows for different parts of the image to be compressed differently, but I'm not aware of any image editor that does that out of the box. I'm also not aware of any JPEG viewer that doesn't understand variable compression; all web browsers and OS image viewers will display the image without any problem. Optimizers like JPEGmini will leave the detailed parts of the image at low compression, but crunch low-detail areas like out-of-focus elements, smooth sky gradients, and so forth way down. You can usually knock a highest-quality image down to about 20-30% of its file size without any difference you would notice without doing difference mode comparison in your editor of choice.)

 

[provax11]

You should say the truth: free space it's NOT unlimited. It doesn't matter exeeding 10MB or not: I've successfully uploaded .rar files of 200/300MB (to unzip them in the webserver). Now I've simply reached upload limit, it's clear as the sun!
Or maybe is it a sort of "daily limit" in uploading files?
If I had known before I wouldn't have missed time with you...

 

[essellar]

You can upload large archives to unzip/unrar them, or create large archives to download them; large files are allowed a four-hour (approximate, could be slightly longer) lifetime. Files that are going to remain need to be kept under 10MB. There is no "daily limit", but if you haven't yet been granted unmetered space¹ or if the actual shared data drive is full (which will return a 521 error)², you may not be able to upload.

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¹ All new accounts have limited space to begin with, usually 512MB. This is to prevent "drive by" abuse, which you get a lot of on a free service that requires no more than a valid email address. Once your account is more than 7 days old, is fully within the Terms of Service, and is using more than 50% of your allotment, you can request unlimited space here.

² When the disk is full, the disk is full. In order to prevent file corruption, all disk writes are prevented until the issue is resolved. Staff will either have to free up some space or provision more. That can take a few minutes or a few hours (longer if hardware needs to be provisioned or if there is something doing a lot of writing to disk, filling it up as fast as things can be deleted.

 

[bdistler]

You should say the truth: free space it's NOT unlimited.

read note #1 on his page --> [ https://x10hosting.com/support/account/plans-upgrades-explained ]
there is a link to the [ Help Center ] under "FREE WEB HOSTING" near the bottom of this page

as you say "it's clear as the sun!" they did say the truth...

 

[provax11]

Thanks for your answers, I apologize for not reading the sub sub sub page indicated. I had just read https://x10hosting.com/free-web-hosting where there is no reference to limitations... Now 7 days have passed out and the space I used it's 100% of the initially available, but I just can not find where to click to get unlimited space as well promised. Could you give me directions please?

 

[essellar]

There's no button to click, you have to request it here, and an admin will have to grant it AFTER checking your account's content and site.

 

[provax11]

Ok thanks for your answer. My local site it's about 3,5 GB so who will check it out, will not find anything interesting by now...

This is a communication for Admins: I formally request an increase of at least 5 GB web space to host my website, so I could evaluate the service and buy one of your hosting fee in the next future.
Thank you.