Just want to know

[pierre39]

Just wonder how many Mo we are allowed on a free web hosting...?
My cPanel Disk usage show actually 790.64 / ∞ MB ...

For me, the ∞ MB (unlimited sign) at the right, if I understand is no restrictions of space...
I do not expect to upload a 100 GB file or directory..!! I just want to upload a 18 MB flash file by FTP... the system refuse and I see a message who tell me to remove files to make space...

So I carefully inspect various directory to flush some files (more than 30 MB removed) and tried again to upload this 18 MB flash file... impossible !

So I just want to understand, what to do for the future... and what can I do in the present day ??
Thanks for your help and have a good day

[stpvoice]

I think there is a limit on FTP file sizes. Have you tried uploading with the cPanel file manager?

[pierre39]

Thank you for your reply... tried to upload via cPanel file manager... it works... anyway, I was able to upload larger files than this one via ftp with CuteFTP prog... may be a bug in the software?
Thanks again...
Thread closed

[stpvoice]

Probably not a bug, it may be something to do with the technology of the software itself, but I'm not sure. I think the FTP limit is 12MB, but I'm not 100% sure.

[Anna]

We have made a few changes to ftp, mainly to prevent abuse in the form of people uploading large files and using our service for a storage entity, which we are not. Further more most of the larger files were also violating US copyright laws.

We left the option to upload a bit larger files through the file manager, as that is less likely to be used for big files unless they are actually of need for the site.

[pierre39]

Hi Anna,

Thank you for your reply, now I know the rules had changed about FTP...

For me there is no problem, I was just wondering why I was unable to upload via FTP this 18MB file, the same file was 30MB before I made change and was uploaded without any problem...

Think it shoulb be a good idea to announce these changes in the "what's new" topic

Have a good day and thanks to you again...