Storage Quotas on Central Servers
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- Overview
- UW NetID Support Group
- Default Storage Quotas by Service
- Transferring Files From Unix and Web Publishing Locations
Overview
Beginning March 1, 2011, a new system for managing your storage quota begins.
Your storage quota is the maximum amount of storage space allocated to your computing account on the UW Information Technology Central Servers. Formerly, one storage quota was shared among email, Web Publishing, and UNIX storage. Currently, each type of service is granted a default storage quota as described in the tables below. Faculty and staff can use a UW budget number to purchase additional space in 1 gigabyte (GB) increments via the UW NetID Manage Web page. Students are limited to the established quotas. Information on purchasing additional storage space is available in the UW-IT Service catalog. Billing for additional storage quotas will begin December 2011.
UW NetID Support Group
Departments have the ability to manage additional storage space once they establish a UW NetID Support Group and their users have linked their UW NetID to the support group.
Default Storage Quotas by Service
Faculty and Staff Default Storage Quotas
| UW Email (Deskmail) | Starts at 1GB, can be increased to 5GB* |
| Streaming Media | 3GB |
| Unix (Homer) | 1GB |
| Web Publishing | 1GB |
*Visit the self-service quota update webpage directly to increase your Faculty/Staff UW Email storage space. There is no charge for increases up to a maximum of 5GB. You may purchase space above 5GB with with a UW budget number.
Shared UW NetID Default Storage Quotas
| UW Email (Deskmail) | 1GB |
| Streaming Media | 3GB |
| Unix (Homer) | 1GB |
| Web Publishing | 1GB |
Shared UW NetID owners or account administrators can purchase additional storage space by selecting the Shared UW NetIDs option from their UW NetID Manage page.
Student storage Quotas
| UW Email (Deskmail) for students with department approval | 300MB |
| Unix (Dante) | 300MB |
| Web Publishing | 300MB |
Where to go for more information
Transferring Files From Unix and Web Publishing Locations
Files stored inside Unix or Web Publishing space are accessible with a secure file transfer protocol software program. (Secure FTP) program. Once connected to homer.u.washington.edu (for employees) or dante.u.washington.edu (for students), files can be copied, removed, or uploaded with a secure file transfer program.
Additionally files inside the Web publishing space can often be managed from within a Web development tool, such as Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage. For additional details please see Using HTML Authoring Tools at the UW.
