Variable means that depending on your needs, we can allow for more or less disk space for your Drupal hosting.
What we have as the value in our Drupal plans is carefully thought out guides
which address how much disk space we can provide for the price, while allowing enough
profit to afford the purchase of higher end, lower capacity, and faster drives.
| Drive | 500GB SATA Drive | WD Raptor SATA | Seagate 15k.5 SAS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity (RAID Mirror) | 500GB | 150GB | 73GB |
| RPM | 7200 | 10,000 | 15,000 |
| Cost - Two Drive Mirror | $210.00 | $350.00 | $420.00 |
| I/O Meter Performance (64 I/O File Server) |
** | *** | ***** |
| Cost per GB This is a comparison number, not something we charge for or sell |
$0.42 |
$2.33 |
$5.75 |
Once must also consider that a VPS has it's own disk space allocation. Unlike a gigantic shared server with hundreds of hosts that can share a big disk pool, a VPS has space which is dedicated to that VPS.
So, back to our "Variable" tag. As you establish a track record with us, we will be willing to consider working with you. If we have a lot of people who need more disk space, we will look at building a server for those users using higher capacity, slower drives.
Customers who use consistently less will be moved to servers with smaller, faster drive allocations.
It's part of our FLEXPLAN system.