[PLUG] VPS account with lots of storage?

[Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

About a year ago we migrated the webpage and email of our small company 
onto a VPS.  It's with Arvixe and runs CentOS.

There have been a few wrinkles but mostly it's gone ok.  The problem I'm 
finding now is that we are gobbling up far more storage space with our 
mailboxes than I had counted on when we signed up.  Our plan allows for 
50 GB, and you can add space in 20 GB increments.

Having always hosted our email locally, our culture is such that people 
tend to never clean out their inboxes, so accounts grow and grow.  The 
firm's owners are the worst "offenders".  So, implementing mail quotas 
would be unpopular and impractical.  If quotas were proposed, users 
would suggest outsourcing it all to Google or MS, (it was when we first 
went from hosting our own).  There's also the fact that you can get hard 
drives with terabytes of storage for $100.

Hosting companies usually bundle their offerings such that if you want a 
lot of storage, you get lots of bandwidth, RAM and CPU as well, and 
price accordingly.  We currently have 1.5GB RAM and it's plenty, and we 
don't need any more transfer bandwidth or CPU.  Just lots of storage, 
like maybe 500 GB.  Are there any good providers out there that offer 
something like that?  I mean, 500 GB sounds like a lot but it's only 
half what a low-end consumer desktop comes with these days.  Should be 
linux, either CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu.

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Greg Helledy
GRA, Incorporated
P:  +1 215-884-7500
F:  +1 215-884-1385
www.gra.aero
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