Space limit is not really limiting the space usage

gosha

Hello

I have the package simple with the Disk space allowance set to 10G while php-error.log has grow up to 100G today. How to really limit the space usage?

Thanks

gmakhs

gosha The log and the disk limmit are 2 diferent issues, the log should never be allowed to be that big and i hope enhance fix that soon, now the website has 2 limits for disk in the settings have you setup both ?

cPFence

gosha Hello

I have the package simple with the Disk space allowance set to 10G while php-error.log has grow up to 100G today. How to really limit the space usage?

Thanks

It sounds like you didn’t activate the Website disk quota ?

Also, make sure to use this script to prevent inflated log files:
Automating Updates and Log Maintenance on Your Enhance Server.

webnestify

Did you enforce storage quota?

twest

Is your server storage also formatted to ext4? Can't enable quota if using other format.

webdig

I would like to suggest an important improvement to Enhance's quota system.

Currently, it's only possible to apply a total storage quota when all services (website, email, and database) are on the same server. For those of us using separate servers — for example, website on one, email on another, and database on a third — the global quota is not enforced correctly, and the total usage is not accurately shown.

This makes it difficult to control disk usage per client and prevents us from offering plans with clear limits. It would be essential for the total quota per client to work even when services are spread across multiple servers, automatically adding up the space used for:

Web hosting
Email
Databases

Also, in several parts of the panel, only the web hosting size is shown, ignoring the space used by emails and databases. This incomplete information can be misleading and doesn’t reflect the client's real usage.

It would be very helpful if Enhance always displayed the total space used (web + email + database) and allowed us to set a single quota that covers all of it.

This feature would greatly improve resource management and make usage-based billing much easier.

gmakhs

webdig That sounds more than a bug fix than feature 🙂

Adam

Hard limits across multiple servers are very complex to implement, especially since many customers deploy servers in distant locations with poor connectivity between them.

If you want to have a fixed limit for the entire website then the best way to do this is to enable the "email role stickiness" feature under settings->platform then the hard disk quota (if enabled) will apply to website files and email. The only thing it won't cover is MySQL since databases are not written as the website user, similarly to other panels.

gmakhs

Adam
Would be cool to be able to set different limits for email /disk / mysql and display each limit to the client .

I have seen many companies advertise 10 GB disk / 2 GB SQL with cpanel.