Serving Your Customers 135
Limiting the Amount of Resources a Site Can Consume
By default, new web sites that you set up without the help of domain templates, are
allowed to consume unlimited amounts of bandwidth (data transfer) and disk space.
To limit the amount of resources this site can consume:
1 Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
2 Click the domain name you need.
3 Click the Limits icon.
4 Adjust the resource usage allotments as required:
Maximum number of subdomains. Specify the number of subdomains that can be
hosted under this domain.
Maximum number of domain aliases. Specify the number of additional alternative
domain names that the site owner will be able to use for his or her web site.
Disk space. Specify the total amount of disk space allocated to a hosting account
associated with the domain. This amount is measured in megabytes. It includes
disk space occupied by all files related to this domain/web site: web site
contents, databases, applications, mailboxes, log files and backup files. This is
the so-called soft quota: when it is exceeded, domain names and web sites are
not suspended automatically, only the appropriate notices are sent to your and
site owner's e-mail addresses and the resource overage is indicated by a
corresponding icon shown in the control panel to the left of the domain name
(see the list of domain names that opens when you click the Domains shortcut in
the navigation pane). And then it is up to you to decide what to do with the web
site:
a you can notify the domain owner and suspend the domain/web site after a grace
period until you receive the payment (not so good for your business, but if you
are going to follow that way, see the Suspending and Unsuspending Hosting
Accounts and Web Sites section),
OR
b upgrade the account for your customer (see the instructions on upgrading
accounts in the Modifying User Accounts (on page 122) section).
Maximum amount of traffic. Specify the amount of data in megabytes that can be
transferred from the web site during a month. Once the limit is reached, the
appropriate notices are sent to your and site owner's e-mail addresses and the
resource overage is indicated by a corresponding icon shown in the control
panel to the left of the domain name (see the list of domain names that opens
when you click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane). When a web site
starts attracting more visitors and requires more bandwidth, consider upgrading
an account (see the instructions on upgrading accounts in the Modifying User
Accounts (on page 122) section).
