The term "disk space" is sometimes labeled as "disk quota" or "data storage", still all these words refer to the exact same thing - the volume of info that you'll be able to upload to a cloud hosting account. The full size of what you have is calculated by accumulating the space consumed by the content within your account, the most obvious being the files you upload. Two more things are usually ignored by the majority of users, though - emails and databases. Big attachments and databases of big script-driven sites can sometimes require a lot of storage space too. To employ a more recognizable analogy, the hard disk space of your laptop or computer is used not only by files you download, but additionally by documents you create together with programs you add. In a similar way, many things are counted for the disk space your information takes on a web site hosting server, not just the uploads.
Disk Space in Cloud Hosting
We've designed our Linux cloud hosting with the notion that the hard disk storage should not be an issue for your sites. While many website hosting providers set up accounts on a single server, and in fact, the most common Control Panels are made to operate solely on such a platform, we've used a different strategy. We have groups of servers that handle every single aspect of the website hosting service, so that your files are stored on a single cluster, the emails on another one,the databases on a third one, and so on. With this cloud platform we achieve two things - the storage space is actually inexhaustible since we can easily add as many servers and hard disks to the clusters as needed, and we raise the performance of each machine since just a single kind of system processes will run on it. This custom setup will enable you to expand your sites as you see fit without worrying about not having enough hard drive storage.