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File Garden @filegarden.com · 27/09/2026

If you have any questions or feedback on this, please let me know! I'll do my best to respond.

File Garden @filegarden.com · 27/09/2026

The 100 MB max per file was never a deliberate choice, but a technical limitation. We plan to lift it for non-basic supporters in the future. Until then, supporters stay at 100 MB max per file: filegarden.com/pricing This limit only applies to new uploads; existing files are fine.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 27/09/2026

Statistics showed 40 MB to minimize the ratio between affected users and storage costs: only 9.1% of free users have any file larger than 40 MB, despite that such files make up 32.4% of storage costs from free users. No other size threshold was this disproportionate (among multiples of 1 MB).

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 27/09/2026

The recent support has been amazing, thanks everyone! :D Unfortunately, our profits are still not great. It's not dire, but out of concern for long-term sustainability, we reduced the max size *PER FILE* for free users from 100 MB to 40 MB before it has a chance to become a problem. Explanation 👇

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 17/09/2026

If you want to share examples or screenshots of what you're referring to privately, feel free to reach out via email at support@filegarden.com. If you'd like, I can also use your email address to look into your billing status to understand what you might be seeing on your end.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 17/09/2026

My only guess is if you were a Patreon pledger, perhaps you used the $10 legacy patron discount for the first year to lower the $30/yr price to $20 for the first year, and now you're seeing the renew price as $30 for the next year in our billing page?

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 17/09/2026

I'm not sure what exactly you're referring to. We haven't raised any prices, we don't have a $30/mo tier (we do have $30/yr if that's what you mean), and you shouldn't have to create a new account to continue hosting your stuff. If you're seeing anything that makes you think otherwise, let us know.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 05/09/2026

Thanks for your support! :D

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 05/09/2026

Looks like the server got overloaded as soon as I posted this. 😅

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 05/09/2026

You can now support us monetarily through our website to unlock more storage, starting at $3/mo for 100 GB! filegarden.com/pricing We're phasing out the Patreon since it has more fees. If you've ever been a patron, we DMed you a $10 off discount code so you can switch without being double-charged.

A screenshot of the pricing page showing three monthly plans

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 05/09/2026

As of now, paid tiers are done! Here you go: filegarden.com/pricing

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 05/09/2026

Psyche! We reconsidered due to a lot of feedback like yours and decided to implement them now. Here you go: filegarden.com/pricing

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 05/09/2026

It's ready! filegarden.com/pricing

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 05/09/2026

Done! filegarden.com/pricing

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 05/09/2026

We just added payments to the website! filegarden.com/pricing They're recurring, but you can just immediately cancel after subscribing, no penalty.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 05/09/2026

Done! filegarden.com/pricing

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 01/09/2026

It depends on your use case. Are you just storing files? Sharing them? Embedding them in other websites? In your own website? If so, how much traffic is your website getting? How much data are you storing? What file types do you need?

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 01/09/2026

Unsure, sorry about that. It's a high priority, but this stuff takes time to research and implement, and it's hard to say how long it'll take without being familiar with it yet. We're working on it.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 27/08/2026

Unsure, sorry about that. It's a high priority, but this stuff takes time to research and implement, and it's hard to say how long it'll take without being familiar with it yet.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 27/08/2026

I explained why the storage limit had to be lowered in the post above. Is there something you'd like me to clarify about it?

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 26/08/2026

File Garden should generally have much more consistent performance now! I implemented load balancing. Also, we switched to a much cheaper server host (with better specs). Storage costs are still high and going up though. Thanks for all the new Patreon donations lately, it helps a lot :D ❤️

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 25/08/2026

Storage unfortunately can't be a one-time purchase because we pay for storage recurringly. The current tentative plan is for our lowest tier to be $3/mo for 100 GB.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 23/08/2026

We won't be increasing it again as long as we can't ensure the increase is sustainable. Revenue would have to be a number of times larger.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 21/08/2026

We put the limit in place because we cannot afford giving away this much free storage. Please do not try to work around it.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 20/08/2026

We don't check Bluesky notifications too often, so if there's a time-sensitive issue like this, I recommend reporting it via Discord (filegarden.com/discord) or email (support@filegarden.com) instead. Let me know if you're still having issues.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 20/08/2026

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 18/08/2026

And paid tiers most likely won't be through Patreon but rather a standard payment processor, so that we don't have to pay a substantial cut to Patreon. They likely won't take terribly long to implement, but we'll research various solutions before implementing one.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 18/08/2026

We are prioritizing other optimizations first, rewriting the whole site to be more efficient and cost-optimized. I expect the rewrite to save us around $200 in monthly costs. That may take several months or even years depending on life circumstances. After that, paid tiers are top priority.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 18/08/2026

I'd have to check, but it's not insignificant. It's typically audio and video files that bring usage into the multi-GB.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 16/08/2026

We pay for storage recurringly, so we'd have to charge for storage recurringly.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 16/08/2026

No worries, there's no obligation to donate :)

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 16/08/2026

Appreciate it :) and if there's anything else I can do to help you or your community, let me know as well at any time.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 16/08/2026

What do you need help with? If you're running into an issue, describe what you're doing and seeing, or else we have no means of knowing how to help.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 16/08/2026

You can still access your content, you just can't upload more while over the limit. Does that answer your concern? (Genuinely asking because I'm unsure.) Unfortunately it's not easy to implement Patreon integration, so we can't offer rewards to supporters yet. A solution for that is in development.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 16/08/2026

Nice! That works. Trashed items auto-delete after 30 days, and the only way to delete them sooner is to go in the trash, select some items (you can select all with ctrl+A), and delete them permanently using the sidebar button. Appreciate ya :D

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 16/08/2026

You can select a folder or multiple files (ctrl+click or shift+click) and use the download/delete buttons in the right sidebar on everything that's selected. But if your selection is too large and the server can't handle the download, try downloading less at a time.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 15/08/2026

If you're already over 2 GB, you just won't be able to upload more. You can see your usage in your garden's left sidebar. Paid tiers for more storage are in development. Sorry to lower the free limit before they're ready. Feel free to reply with any questions. I'll do my best to answer. (2/2)

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 15/08/2026

Our costs from net storage use have increased another 10% this month, now $421/mo (in addition to the server costs ~$200/mo). I'm paying all costs out of pocket, and donations aren't keeping pace. So for now, I've unfortunately decided to decrease our free storage limit from 15 GB to 2 GB. (1/2)

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 12/03/2026

Awesome! Glad you've found it useful :)

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 09/03/2026

This is most likely an issue with your network, which we can help you fix in the support channel of our Discord server! filegarden.com/discord If you don't use Discord, you can also DM us, but responses may be slower.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 13/06/2025

All done! Took much quicker than expected. Note that this upgrade hasn't completely eliminated all problems. It will merely hold them off to some extent until the full rewrite is ready. And we may perform another upgrade in the future if this one doesn't help enough.

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 13/06/2025

Our backend is being rewritten to heavily optimize this, but that will take some time, so for now we'll just have to upgrade the server. On our current infrastructure, this unfortunately may take an hour or so of downtime. Apologies for doing this on such short notice. (2/2)

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 13/06/2025

We're aware the server has been going down a lot lately--we've been hitting memory bottlenecks from high server load. The site's traffic has been growing more and more over the last year, and the original backend developed several years ago isn't holding up well. (1/2)

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 10/05/2025

Can you join our Discord server (filegarden.com/discord) and ask for help in our support channel there? I would be able to help you much quicker there. If you aren't on Discord, you can also message me over Bluesky, but responses might be a bit slower!

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File Garden @filegarden.com · 27/04/2025

That must be an unrelated issue. Can you join our Discord server (filegarden.com/discord) and ask for help in our support channel there, with a screenshot of the issue you're experiencing? If you aren't on Discord, you can also message me over Bluesky, but responses might be a bit slower!

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