- Increased maximum bonus to 300% from 150%
- Changed bonus % gain per euro paid from 28€ to 50€
- Increased global max limit of bonuses in GiB gain per day
- Extra ~250 000GiB or ~0.25PiB will be added for users over the next week
- Bonus is given if server has at least 3000GiB of actual storage free, not based on allocatable / new user provisionable anymore -- this will ensure much more even distribution
Yes, there are some users who are right now at the new maximum of 300% level. Or would even go significantly over the 300% maximum bonus. Even after just few years of using our services.
Euros paid had to be increased, it has an multiplier effect and inflation has struck at high levels past few years. This was last changed in 2016 - Currencies devalue overtime always. 1€ does not buy what it used to buy in 2016, especially after the past 2 years of very high inflation.
Importantly,euros paid metric also has multiplier effect. It effects all your services the same, whether 1 or 100. If you have 100 services, each one gets euros paid bonus storage the same.
With these changes bonus storage accounts for nearly 25% of all storage accounted. Yes, that means average user gets almost 25% of bonus storage on their services.
For further detail, and change history see our wiki: https://wiki.pulsedmedia.com/index.php/Pulsed_Media_Free_Bonus_Disk_Policy
Thursday, January 20, 2022
