Hi
I have 2 sites hosted with some company X for almost 2 years. They promised unlimited everything, but in the TOS there's some hidden limit of not having more tham 50,000 files.
Everything went well. I also had several other sites under dev. in different folders. Yesterday, without any warning, since Cpanel does not show this, I was told I wa violating TOS with over 200,000 files.
I was of course quite shocked, because I have not been aware of any method of detecting how many files one is having. I have deleted all my dev. sites & have my 2 lives sites, BOTH SMALL & regional, both having a total of about 150MB.
The problem after deleting all files not related specifically to the lives sites, I still have a total of about 100000 files. I cannot delete my site files. They suggest opening separate accounts,.. which I think makes a mockery of the unlimited this & that of the package features.
One of them is a Drupal-based community site, with just a few active users & not much content all, with lots of modules in use. This site has a total of about 55MB of zipped files & the DB in phpmyadmin is shown to have about 45MB.
The other site is non-Drupal, a small regional web directory. Its files are only about 13MB (zipped) & the DB about 1.4MB (gzip).
When the host showed there was no alternative but to open another account ...