Your FTP account quota has been exceeded

Hi! My Website URL is http://gilvstudio.infy.uk
it’s a static one-page html, with Disk Space Usage: 72 MB / 5 GB
and Inode Usage: 40 / 59400
I’m still stuck with “Your FTP account quota has been exceeded” error. with both FileZilla and your online uploader.
This seems to be a fairly common issue and I hope you can fix this misbehavior of your servers as soon as possible. No answer required, just fix it already.

Regards

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Can you send screenshots and FileZilla logs?

The online uploader has bugs when it comes down to uploading files.

EDIT: Yikes, I keep forgetting to say to the newcomers, Welcome to the InfinityFree Forum!

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It’s a known bug with the online file manager. You’re the first person I’ve seen have the issue in FileZilla.

As jri said, if you can show the FileZilla kids it will probably help

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Not sure if those exist, buddy. :joy:

As dan was saying, providing the FileZilla logs could help resolve the issue. This is also the first time I have ever heard of this error occurring on FileZilla.

The auto correct on this phone is ducked lol (done deliberately)

Yes I ment logs…

Thank you guys. I will look into them filezilla logs. If I’m the only one with the problem, the problem is in me :slight_smile:

:slight_smile: FileZilla of course

I figured it out. For reasons unknown, server refuses to accept files bigger than 10m, so the error message should be more specific: “file SIZE quota exceeded”

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This limit is enforced on the InfinityFree server side:

I’ve never heard of FileZilla returning a Disk Quota error, though. I’ve had it remove uploaded files, but not reject them.

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Last time I checked, files over the upload size would just get removed without error, not result in a disk quota error.

I’m not sure how exactly the FTP messaging works under the hood, but please understand that it might be possible that FTP has limited error codes it knows about. If so, it would be impossible for us to have FileZilla display a “file size limit exceeded” message because FileZilla doesn’t support any FTP error code that translates to that message.

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Indeed, the essence of my problem is that files larger than 10MB are deleted immediately after upload. The question still remains, how do I get around this ridiculous 10MB limitation? If I don’t want to compress and therefore ruin the quality of my audio files even more? I should probably start a new topic for this problem

Audio files should be hosted using another service, like Google Drive or something, and then embedded into your site.

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They definitely should not! Seriously, the stupidest answer ever, mr.Bot. Looks like your hosting services do not suite my needs.

You are calling our answers stupid while we are trying our best to help you. Free hosting services come with certain limitations, and the 10 MB file size limit is one of them. If this limit didn’t exist, people would start using InfinityFree as a file hosting service rather than for its intended purpose, which is web hosting. As we mentioned earlier, you can’t host large audio files here. However, you can use third-party services we previously recommended to host them and then embed it into your site. If you don’t want to do that, you can always switch to a different host if you want.

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Sorry, I do appreciate your help. (even if it’s not helpfull. At all) Are you saying that a paid account won’t have these limitations and I do not need to delete my site? I was considering “going premium” before this 10Mb incident.
HTTPRequesting files hosted “somewhere else” is prohibited and cause CORS errors, you should’ve known that

You can absolutely host files elsewhere, what tells you that is prohibited? And a lot of file sharing sites specifically allow imbeds, you won’t get CORS errors.

Upload your music to SoundCloud or YouTube, then embed it on your website, that’s perfectly fine and will probably work better then self-hosting (As those services are specifically designed for media sharing).

If you are set on self-hosting, you’ll need to upgrade to change hosts.

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Try to fetch() a file from YouTube or SoundCloud… Embed? Tons and tons and tons of garbage just to play audio? No way. Let’s consider this discussion closed, I’ve already deactivated my account.

That’s not how it works. Embedding files from other sites should be done with the proper HTML tags. For SoundCloud that’s iframe, and SoundCloud itself will show you the exact code you need on any given sound file you want to embed. Once you copy the code you just need to paste it where you want, so it’s really quite simple.


When you have the link to a file directly however you should use either the <video> or <audio> tags. lovebug recently described how to host your video files on a Github repository and embed them in your site. I believe you can do the same thing with audio files (just remember to use the <audio> tag rather than the <video> tag).

Even if you’re using a PHP script of some kind (or coding in PHP yourself) you can still use HTML to embed things.

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I know how it works. Patronizing is disrespectful.
That is exactly what i do not want. What are you for then? Hosting without hosting

Why not? It works perfectly as long as you do it right, and is fully in line with all of the server’s limitations.

Web hosting. As in every file stored on your account should be directly for the site. Hosting video and audio files on your account itself (without embedding from a different source) is specifically against the TOS that you agreed to when you signed up. If what you want is to let your users download the files, you can do that by hosting them on cloud storage (such as Google Drive) and sharing the download link on your site.

The premium plans at iFastNet have the same content rules and still don’t want you to host audio or video files directly. Many hosting companies have similar restrictions on shared web hosting.
If you really want to make an audio streaming site where the content is hosted on the same server, you’ll be better off getting a VPS and doing everything manually. You’d have much more freedom that way.

You wouldn’t have to delete your site either way. You can just make a backup of it and host it elsewhere.

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