Pulsed Media Free Bonus Disk Policy

Bonus disk on Pulsed Media is earned storage that's added on top of your paid plan, computed from your tenure and payment history. As of May 2026, the bonus is applied at provisioning time — your full earned bonus appears on first login, with no waiting period.

Stay with us a few years and your earned bonus can exceed your paid plan. The cap is 300%, so a 1 TB plan can compound to 4 TB. Past 100% bonus is a regular outcome of formula compounding over years, not an outlier.

When the bonus is applied

At provisioning (new services)

When you provision a new seedbox or storage box, the bonus your account history has earned is computed from your billing record and applied immediately. The new service comes online with your full base quota plus your earned bonus. You see the full quota on first login.

At purchase (storage upgrades)

When you buy extra disk through your control panel, the upgraded quota is live the moment the order clears. No delay, no waiting cycle.

At migration (server moves we initiate)

When we move a service between servers, your full earned bonus moves with you. The new server provisions with your bonus already applied — same as a fresh provisioning event.

Existing services

Services you already have continue to receive bonus through ongoing maintenance. The system runs regular sweeps that apply your accumulated bonus where capacity allows. PM-initiated migrations apply your full at-provisioning bonus on the new server.

How the bonus is computed

The formula has been unchanged since 2022:

0.5% per month each service has been active
0.1% per month since your billing profile was created
1% per €62.50 paid (minus transaction fees)
−1% per €5 in refunds
Capped at 300%

The bonus reflects your account-level history, not just the individual service. If you have multiple services with us, each one earns bonus independently from your shared payment history and account tenure. A new service started today by a long-tenure account gets the full earned bonus on day one — it does not start at zero.

Worked examples

New customer, day 1: starts at 0% bonus. Bonus accrues over time.

Multi-service example: 3 seedboxes for 2 years at €10/month each. Each seedbox earns:

14.4% from time alone (24 months × 0.5% + 24 months × 0.1%)
5.76% from payments (€720 paid ÷ €62.50)
Total: ~20.16% bonus per service
On a 1 TB base, that is 201 GiB of bonus per seedbox.

Long-tenure prepaid example: signup for 5 services at €30/month each, 3 years prepaid:

Day 1 signup bonus per service: 86.4%
End of 3-year term: total ~108% per service.
On an 8 TB plan, that is up to 8.6 TB of bonus per service on day 1, growing further with time.

What does not count toward the bonus

The bonus is calculated on your base plan only. Storage upgrades you purchase are added to your quota separately — they do not multiply through the bonus formula. (We may revisit this in a future update.)

Migrations and resets

PM-initiated migrations preserve your bonus. The new server provisions with your full earned bonus already applied.

Customer-requested migrations are not currently part of the standard workflow. If you have a specific reason, open a ticket and we'll review case-by-case.

Capacity policy

We provision new services and migrations onto servers with enough physical capacity to hold your full base plus your earned bonus. If a server has insufficient room, provisioning routes to a different server rather than provisioning under-quota.

Limits

The cap is 300% of your base plan quota. A 1 TB plan can compound to 4 TB total (base + bonus). The cap applies per service.

Vendor rights

We reserve the right to modify this policy. Any policy changes will be announced to current customers through the customer panel announcements.