4 Billion Files Over Quota
Apparently…
One of the sites I manage is hosted with 1&1. I needed to do an update today and found that when trying to publish the changed page to the server, I got an error message:
“Exceeded storage allocation.”
That sounded a bit fishy, so I checked in the 1&1 control panel and got this:
Hmm. 4 billion files over our allocation? I don’t think so! So I rang them up.
“Yes,” the tech. support guy told me, “you’re over your file allocation.”
“I see,” I replied, “you’re telling me I have presently uploaded 4,096,815,118 files to the server?”
“Ah. I see your point.”
After a number of long pauses on hold, he promised to escalate the issue…
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[…] having received no communication whatsoever in the intervening period about the claim by 1&1 that we are over-quota by some 4.1 billion files, I rang 1&1 again this morning at 8.15am and spent the next hour trying to find out what – if […]
[…] having received no communication whatsoever in the intervening period about the claim by 1&1 that we are over-quota by some 4.1 billion files, I rang 1&1 again this morning at 8.15am and spent the next hour trying to find out what – if […]