The platform books thick: a package reserves its whole disk_gb — the sold
quota plus the machine's own overhead — on ONE host at placement. That is the
right choice for a small operator, because nothing can quietly overfill. It
has one consequence nobody was being told about: the catalogue goes on
offering a package no host has room for, and the first anyone hears of it is a
PAID order failing at the reservation step.
On the machine this was found on the numbers are stark. 2 x 512 GB NVMe in a
mirror is about 400 GB usable; Start reserves 120, Team 540, Business 1050,
Enterprise 2100. Three of the four packages on sale cannot be placed at all,
and the fourth fits three times.
So the console says so now, per package, with the shortfall — "Team needs 540
GB, the roomiest host has 260" — because "buy a server" is not the decision.
"Buy a server big enough for what I am selling" is.
Two things it deliberately does not do. It does not warn on an installation
with no host at all: that is a machine nobody has onboarded yet, it has its
own notice, and without the guard a fresh console greeted its operator with
one warning per package before they had done anything. And it does not take
the overview down when the catalogue cannot be read — a capacity warning does
not get to break the page somebody opens when something is already wrong.
The largest FREE HOST, never the sum: an instance goes on one machine, so two
hosts with 300 GB each cannot take a 540 GB package between them.
And when placement does fail, the log now names the shortfall instead of only
'no_capacity'.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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