A couple years ago I signed up to Sulana Hosting primarily to run my Piwigo install but also WordPress and a couple other bits and pieces on my website. The plan was always that the photo album was the main focus.
I'm up to 38,000 files and 93GB of storage and the team has just informed me *conditions apply, unlimited of course doesn't actually mean unlimited.
So I'm wondering who uses a webhosting provider for their album and do they have truly unlimited storage? According to the ticket this is a snapshot of my major usage:
92.83 GB ./pics/upload/
36.65 GB ./pics/upload/2023/
36.01 GB ./pics/upload/2022/
20.07 GB ./pics/upload/2024/
This is going to continue to grow, probably at a similar 30GB/yr rate, maybe it slows down when the kids move out, who knows.
What recommendations do you have where terms like this don't exist an other web applications can be installed (this is why Piwigo cloud hosting is not an option):
At least 80% of all files and/or total megabytes used (including MP3, WAV, RA, GIF, JPG, ZIP, RAR, but not limited to these file types) in each hosting account must be a part of actual, active website(s) content, i.e. all content files must have corresponding HTML or PHP files that link to them.
Audio, graphics and/or video files must be under 25% of the current web hosting disk usage and must never exceed 50 GB in size.
Furthermore, such media files may amount to no more than 50% of the customer's total monthly traffic usage.
Thanks
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Hello !
I have 2 shared hosting and each is limited in 2 different ways :
1 - the number of GB
2 - a number of files (262 000)
I mean that maybe your hosting is also limied in more than one way.
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It sure is, I listed several of them in my post :)
Can you suggest other hosting providers that can cope with libraries that will continue to grow approx 30-35GB annually?
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> *conditions apply, unlimited of course doesn't actually mean unlimited.
That. There probably isn't real unlimited anywhere. But your provider's restrictions on the percentage of media/audio/video/graphics files in storage are ridiculous.
A restriction on inodes (which is roughly the number of files and directories) almost always applies, a common limit is 262,144 (256k) inodes. So find a web hosting plan that actually meets your needs. You have 93GB in 38,000 files and anticipate 30GB/year growth (with ~12,000 files per year?). So for how many years will it grow? 10? 20? Anyhow, hosting will likely be different in 10 years. If you choose now a plan with unrestricted 500GB and assuming a 256k inodes limit you can grow for 10-13 years. If you think that isn't enough storage find a plan with 1TB. Or choose 250GB and hope for better offers in 5-6 years.
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