What is a Hosting Volume - Account Management - InfinityFree Forum InfinityFree Forum What is a Hosting Volume Documentation Account Management Admin March 26, 2020, 11:00pm 1 In your control panel, you will see that your website is associated with a certain Hosting Volume. In some communication regarding outages, you will also see that there may be issues with certain hosting volumes. This article will try to clarify what a Hosting Volume is, and what it does and doesn’t mean for an account. What does a Hosting Volume do Websites hosted on InfinityFree are running on a custom built cloud hosting platform. This cloud platform uses a network of servers for every website, balancing optimal performance and hardware for serving your website, storing it’s files, and running it’s database. Every hosting account is assigned to a Hosting Volume. Simply put, each Hosting Volume is a cloud storage drive which hosts the files of the accounts assigned to it. The web servers can access these cloud storage drives to retrieve the files of a particular web hosting account, so they can be shown on the website. The FTP servers also have access to these cloud storage drives, so you can upload files …