Allowing Automatic Upgrades for Transfer Usage

The automatic transfer upgrade feature will prevent your end-users' blogs from being disabled if they exceed their transfer-usage allotment.

This feature will upgrade the blog's transfer-usage allotment for the month that the blog exceeds the limit. For subsequent months, the blog will be allocated the standard transfer-usage amount for their package (as long as the transfer-usage allocation is not exceeded). You will only be charged for the amount of overage used by your end-users, not for the maximum upgrade amount allowed.

Note: You will be billed for automatic upgrades to your end-users' blogs. We recommend that you update your contracts and communicate to your customers that exceeding their transfer-usage allotment will result in additional charges to their accounts.

You can allow automatic upgrades for all blogs in your Reseller profile, or for specific blogs.

Note: If you enable automatic upgrades for all blogs in your profile, only new blogs will be activated with this feature. Existing blogs will not be automatically upgraded unless you specifically activate this feature for that individual blog; see Allowing automatic upgrades for an individual blog.

1.	In the Reseller Control Panel, click the Settings tab. The Edit Settings page opens.

2.	Below Automatic Transfer Upgrade in the Administration Settings section, click the Allow automatic upgrades checkbox.

3.	From the Maximum transfer upgrade threshold drop-down list, choose the maximum amount to which you want to allow your users to be upgraded. This is a maximum amount; your end-users will only be upgraded for the amount of transfer-usage by which they exceed their package allotment.

4.	From the Automatic upgrade step value drop-down list, choose the increment by which to upgrade users' blogs. Blogs will then be upgraded according to the step amount, as needed, until the maximum transfer upgrade threshold is reached.

5.	Click the Save Changes button, located at the bottom of the page.

Allowing automatic upgrades on a blog by blog basis is useful if you want to grant a different upgrade amount to each blog.

1.	In the Reseller Control Panel, click the Blogs tab. The Blogs page opens.

2.	From the Name column, click the blog that you want to enable for automatic upgrades. The Blog Settings page opens.

3.	From the Update Bandwidth section, click the Allow automatic upgrades checkbox.

4.	From the Upgrade Blog By drop-down list, choose the increment by which to upgrade the blog. The blog will be upgraded as needed, up to the maximum bandwidth upgrade amount (specified in the next step).

5.	From the to a Maximum Bandwidth upgrade of drop-down list, choose the maximum amount to which you want this blog to be upgraded. This is a maximum amount; the blog will only be upgraded for the amount of transfer-usage by which it exceeds its package allotment.

6.	Click the Save Settings button, located at the bottom of the page.