Date: 04/22/06 (Web Hosts)    Keywords: web

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I'm not sure why, but every year, nearing summertime, I start getting automated messages from my ISP's server, that I am running out of space. In the past when I've asked him about this, he's always just given me more space +ultimately this hasn't been a problem.

This year he told me that I need to allow him to 'defrag' my space, then I can reload my entire website. It would be a LOT of work to put my (huge) website back up there. I have some nagging worry that I'll actually wind up with LESS space than I currently have.

AAARRRGGG!!

He explained that I've had my site up for 5+years now, the server area that holds my information needs to be defragged like a hard-drive (HUH!?!) +he explained that he cannot do maintenance for only my account because that would cause the accounts belonging to others to have down time.

Is this true? Would someone please kindly explain this to me?
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Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webhosts/35298.html