Attachment Limits (Read 457 times)

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to touch on a few things. First I'd like to address something mentioned above*. That V4 gives you 4GB of space. While that's true, it isn't accurate. If every forum used that space we would go out of business. That limit was set as a way for a couple of our larger forums to deal with the amount of attachments that they were dealing with while we prepped v5. Since v4 is limited in how we can modify it we simply turned up the dial for everyone. Many of you will remember that for a long time it was only 100MB limit. The 4GB limit is simply us turning up the limit temporarily during v4.5 while we prepped for v5 to assist these larger forums. I want to make that clear so that no one wonder's why we are offering less space suddenly. We aren't. We're actually increasing it from the normal amount by double. The number you currently see in the admin area of your v4.5 forum is not the real number. I hope that makes sense.

Now, that being said. Here is the planned storage capacities for each category of storage.

Plans and Amounts
Free Default
Themes - 50MB
Plugins - 40plugins/10keys/2superkeys
Attachment - 200MB/1MBperfile/3files/10GB Bandwidth

Maximum Amounts
Themes - 1GB max
Plugins - 200plugins max / 400keys max / 50superkeys max
Attachments - Based on plans

I'd like to point out, that the MAX amount that we can even let our servers deal with on a per forum basis (for free) is still only 250MB for themes and attachments(not 4GB like Brian mentioned). You'll notice that Attachments refer to plans. These numbers aren't finalized, however I will tell you that there are currently 7 plans that range all the way up to the following Obsidian Plan 10000MB/40MBperfile/40files/500GB Bandwidth. Now this plan is crazy huge, it's right around ~$75 a month**. Don't worry the smallest paid plan looks like this, Copper Plan 500MB/2MBperfile/5files/25GB Bandwidth and only cost $3 a month. There will be a plan for everyone regardless of your needs. There are 3 different plans for under $10 a month. Don't forget that most of you aren't even hitting the regular v4 limit of 100MB and we're doubling that for the base FREE plan.

Now I know what you're thinking. Ryan you just said that you can't handle every forum having 4GB of attachment space, but that big plan you mentioned has about 10GB. That's true. But here's a few things to consider. First that's not going to be every forum. That's going to be hardly any forum ever. Second, we are charging for that space. We are able to upgrade the server that forum is on. We can put more resources into the server making it possible to accommodate that much space.

I really hope that I've made this clear and answered a few questions. Don't forget you aren't getting only 200MB of attachment space, but 50MB for themes and a ton of space for plugins. In v5 we are doubling the amount of free space you get just for attachments, not counting everything else. We also offer some very cheap plans should you wish to upgrade. You are not losing 4GB of space. As I said that is a temporary number that you are seeing in your admin areas. That being said enjoy all that free space until you upgrade your forum, it's a temporary gift from us. However be aware that at conversion you'll either need to clean up your storage or upgrade your plan if you are exceeding 200MB.

If you have any questions I would be more than happy to answer them. Thank you.

* Brian didn't actually know this stuff. It's not his fault though, he wasn't in all our meetings about this. He was too busy providing you guys with awesome support (and/or he didn't work here yet when certain things were done).
** None of the space or prices I mentioned above are final. We are still building these areas and things are subject to change. I just wanted to give everyone an idea of what is planned.