A Christmas present: we've doubled disk space to 120 GB

Christmas has come a little early: we've prepared a present for you by doubling the disk space in your VPS.

Christmas is a time for giving, so we decided to give you something lasting and useful. We reviewed our hardware upgrade plan, and our current resources allow us to offer everyone around 120 GB with the same backup arrangements. So we went ahead: we're increasing disk space from 60 GB to 120 GB for everyone.

Here's the current distribution of disk usage across VPSes:

On average, you use 15.8 GB, roughly a quarter of the original capacity. The median is only 7.5 GB, though, so half of our members fit within 15%. A total of 22 members increased their membership fees to get more than the original 60 GB.

Most of these members now fit within the 120 GB limit, so their membership fees will return to the standard amount. For the few who pay for even more space, we'll reduce their fees accordingly, since they'll now be paying for 60 GB less extra space. Any overpayment will go towards extending their membership.

If your dataset fills its entire quota, it has been expanded automatically. If you've deliberately kept it smaller, its size hasn't changed. Your quota has doubled, though, and it's up to you how to divide the new space between datasets. Either way, you have more resources available to allocate. You can see them under vpsAdmin → Members → Details → Cluster resources.

If you keep production data on the NAS (where you have another 250 GB) and it now fits in your VPS, move it over. This will avoid unnecessary network traffic and improve the reliability of an application that otherwise depends on both the node and network storage being available.

We wish you a peaceful, relaxed Advent.