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In article <Pine.SGI.3.95.970102084626.22658D-100000@shellx.best.com>,
	Chris Yarnell  <cyarnell@best.com> wrote:
|
| So, Best, what's the deal here?  I've heard two people tell me that the
| quota policy either changed 6 months or a year ago.  Yet, there was no 30
| day notice (as required if terms of service change), AND Best's website
| still has:
| 
| ----
| Disk quotas exist to partition the amount of space available, in the case 
| that any user may infringe on the amount of space allocated to their
| specific directory. The amount of space available for our customers is
| 25Megabytes for FTP/WWW capabilities, 10 Megabytes in the home directory,
| and 10 Megabytes allocated for the mail spool. Excessive usage beyond the
| set disk quota parameters requires a charge at $0.50 per megabyte per
| month.
| ----

Hmmmm.  Someone has been quietly busy over the Holidays.

From the newly revised Best FAQ page on disk quotas:
     _________________________________________________________________
                                      
   Q: Are disk quotas used at Best?
   
   A: Yes. Disk quotas exist to partition the amount of space available,
   in the case that any user may infringe on the amount of space
   allocated to their specific directory. On our shellx.best.com the
   amount of space available for our customers is 25 Megabytes for
   FTP/WWW capabilities, 10 Megabytes in the home directory, and 10
   Megabytes allocated for the mail spool. Excessive usage beyond the set
   disk quota parameters requires a charge at $0.50 per megabyte per
   month.
   
>  On our new shell machines, the quota is currently 10 MB in your home
>  directory (mail is stored in the home directory) and 25 MB in the
>  ftp/www directory. As we move more and more customers to the new shell
>  machines, we will re-evaluate our quota policy and standardize the
>  home directory quota on all servers.
   
   Disk quotas extending outside of the current realm of disk space,
   requiring the extra charge per Megabytes per month, cannot exceed 50
   Megabytes, and in the /tmp directory, cannot exceed 100Megabytes.
     _________________________________________________________________
                                      

Note the open-ended words "re-evaluate" and "standardize".

One wonders if the implication is that Best is open to restoring all or
part of the 10Mb that was ex post facto "reappropriated" from us along
with the (eventually manditory) move to the shell# machines, or if it
is merely some boiler-plating that should be taken to mean, "we can and
will 'adjust' your storage allowance any ol' time we feel like it, and
if you don't like it, the door's behind you".


There were a couple of reasons that I chose to move to Best when Portal
got out of the ISP business.  High on the list was the storage allocation
policy (which at the time didn't use words like "re-evaluate").  So what
naturally happens ... almost right away, my storage alloc gets a ~20%
hit.  TANJ!


And yes, I know ... the door's behind me ...

/kim

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