wordpress, you sneaky little monkey.
even with the space upgrades i’ve purchased, the music and video content i put up here on the blog has been adding up. a few months ago i sifted through the archives and got rid of some files that weren’t in use to create a bit of breathing room, but i was only able to do so much. after the most recent video progress report was uploaded, i only had a few hundred megabytes left to work with, which meant it would soon be time to pay for another space upgrade, or i would find myself unable to post any more video progress reports here unless i went to the trouble of hosting them elsewhere. and i don’t really feel like doing that. using videopress and having the videos live here on the blog works just fine for me.
in the first few days of the new year, i noticed something odd. on the media-related pages, where wordpress tells you how much space you’ve used and how much you have left, instead of a few hundred megabytes and something like 2.3% of my server space remaining, it said i had more than 15 GB available. i thought it must be a glitch, or a joke, and didn’t put much stock in it — until just this moment, when i got an email from wordpress telling me they’ve basically doubled the amount of space i have as a way to ring in 2012, free of charge.
thanks for the surprise, wordpress. i never saw that one coming. now i probably won’t need to buy any additional space for at least another year or two. handshakes and half-eaten cookies for everyone!
