CS2: Use quotas for your user's photo galleries
If you're hosting a community where you allow users to have their own photo galleries, you might want to be able to control how much they upload. After all you might not have unlimited disk space, or SQL DB space.
Quotas is a new feature in Community Server 2.0, and as far as I know, currently just available for photo galleries. But hey, that's better than nothing, right?
You can set quotas on photo galleries in two ways. Either you set it on a member role level and/or you set a global quota for everyone.
To set a global quota:
Control Panel -> Administration -> Photos -> Quotas -> Global Quotas Tab
Photo Quota = The number of photos allowed in each gallery
Disk Quota = Amount of disk space allowed for each gallery
To set a role based quota:
Control Panel -> Administration -> Photos -> Quotas -> Owner Role Quotas Tab -> Edit (for the role to set quota on)
If I could have it my way, I would have also liked to have a community wide global quota for a role, which would determine how much space a user in that role could use through out the whole community (photos, attachement, files). And maybe also a File Gallery quota in the same way as the Photo galleries. And while we're at it, why not a forum quota. You might want to give a certain user/moderator his/her own forum, and it would be good to be able to control how much space the attachements takes. Maybe a per blog quota as well? And for all the different quotas, an integrated billing system? Ok, I'll stop now! Just some thoughts from a hoster point of view.
It should be saturday now, and a nice weekend ahead, so who cares about quotas then? ;-)