I was wondering, what methods do people use for measuring how much disk space people are using in their account for a web app? For instance, if I want to cap a web app at 5GB of storage, what would you do to track that usage?
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I was wondering, what methods do people use for measuring how much disk space people are using in their account for a web app? For instance, if I want to cap a web app at 5GB of storage, what would you do to track that usage?
Thanks!
You could loop through all the user’s uploaded files, sum up their file size and check if he is within quota, before you permit the user to upload a new file.
Or you could store how much capacity he has used up by adding/subtracting the file size when the user uploads/deletes a file from his account, and store this piece of data in the database.