XFileSharing Pro - Dedicated server:Hard disk for registered users file storage

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ruben
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Dedicated server:Hard disk for registered users file storage

#1 Postby ruben » Nov 06, 2010 11:54 pm

My question is :

If i want to give my costumers 10GB storage space on their accounts
and for example i have 500.000 registered users on my website.
and I have 2 dedicated servers does that mean i need 500.000 X 10GB = 5 million GB Hard disk on my dedicated server ? that is way to high.

Please could someone explain me how it works.

Thanks.

PowerChaos
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#2 Postby PowerChaos » Nov 07, 2010 12:20 am

you only need the storage amount that you like to use

accounts are not bounded to your storage amount , they are bounded at the max upload they can store on there own account

so if you got 1GB hd or 1TB hd , it stays the same

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nyan
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#3 Postby nyan » Nov 07, 2010 7:10 pm

You do not need 500.000 times 10 gb = 5 000 000 gb storage as your users will never all use that 10 gb
You can just say you give them 10 gb each, if your current harddrive( as a start maybe 1 TB) is full, you just buy another one and install it as a new fileserver for xfilesharing(you can have unlimited fileservers)

ruben
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#4 Postby ruben » Nov 08, 2010 5:32 pm

hhmm i get it thanks. so if my hard disk is full i need to rent another dedicated server ? or could i just buy hard disk space ?

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#5 Postby admin » Nov 09, 2010 7:56 am

ruben wrote:hhmm i get it thanks. so if my hard disk is full i need to rent another dedicated server ? or could i just buy hard disk space ?
That's up to you. Each new HDD - is new file server (in terms of Xfilesharing) and no matter where it will be located, on separate physical server or on separate HDD on your existing server.