Many Syncplify.me Server! administrators often notice that our software's virtual file systems (VFS) do have two distinct quota configurations:

  • soft quota
  • hard quota

Both values are expressed in KiloBytes.


The main difference is this:

  • when the soft quota is broken by an ongoing upload, such upload will be allowed to finish, and further/additional file uploads will be denied
  • when the hard quota is broken by an ongoing upload, such upload is immediately interrupted, and further/additional file uploads will be denied

If both soft and hard quotas are set to 0 (zero) then the software will not enforce any quota. This is basically equivalent to disabling all quota checks and controls.


But if even just one of these values is greater than 0 (zero), then both are enforced. So, you can never have one quota set to 0 and the other one set to a value greater than 0, because that would basically prevent all uploads.