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Management of Shares

You may manage your shares in the "Manage" / "Servers" menu of our website, "Resources available" section. The number of total shares is displayed in the section "Shares Administration" / "Shares used".

This section displays :

  • The expiration date of your hosting account
  • The shares currently in use and the total number of shares in your account
  • The disk quota currently in use and the total of quota in your account

Use the "Manage your resources" button to access your share's details :

Note:

Any modification to the number of shares is only effective after a delay of about 10 minutes.

Definition of a share

A share represents 1/64th of a server's total capacity.

This is:

  • 1/64th of 16 GB de memory, or 256 MB guaranteed RAM (+512 MB of Swap)
  • 1/64th of the network's capacity (5 dedicated Mbits of unlimited traffic)
  • 1/64th of a disk reserved to the server, or 5GB of disk space (+2 GB that are used for the operating system)
  • 1/64th of the machine's processing power

Adding a share

To add a share, go in the "Server Management" tab of your hosting account's main page, and click on the "Add shares" function :

You will be brought to the resources management page (show above). Use the "Add" function. The interface will allow you to either directly type the number of shares that you want to add, or to use the "add" or "remove" buttons to increase or decrease the number of desired shares. Click on "Submit" to validate.

Removing a share

Still the "Server Management" tab of your hosting account's main page, and click on the "Remove shares" function :

You will once more be brought to the resources management page. Use the "Release" function.

Select the number of shares that you want to remove and click on "Submit" to complete the operation.

Note:

Only shares that are not attributed to a server can be released.

Add or remove a share from a server

In the "Server Administration" section, click on the name of the server for which you want to modify the number of shares.

In the "General information" section, use the "Active shares:(Modify)" function to add or remove shares on this server :

Use the drop-down menu to choose how many shares you want to attribute to the server.

Click on "Change" to submit your operation.


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Last modified: 15 Oct 2008 at 10:07 by samos z. (Gandi)