# cpan

> mail-archive.com | Storage; 1 record: free tier, limits, identity cost and evidence.

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## cpan / pause

- `storage/cpan-pause-2` | fails-quota | evidence reported | binding none | category rejected-provider
- identity a placeholder: card and phone unknown | verified 2026-10-21 (inherited) | stale on 2026-11-05
- url https://www.mail-archive.com/modules@perl.org/msg53837.html
- free tier: No published quota, but the whole of CPAN was only 29.0 GB in 2021 and PAUSE has publicly run out of disk. A 2 MB distribution was rejected with 413 'Request Entity Too Large' in a public… | unit: none | metered on: none | read on: 2026-10-21 | source: [1]
- per-object cap: not recorded | source: [1] | note: not recorded
- retention: not recorded | source: [1]
- egress: not recorded | metered: no
- identity: email
- interface: unknown
- tooling: not recorded
- composes with: the same as tooling
- reliability: the same as the free tier
- notes: the same as the free tier
- extras:
  - dead_end.failure_class: quota
  - dead_end.why: No published quota, but the whole of CPAN was only 29.0 GB in 2021 and PAUSE has publicly run out of disk. A 2 MB distribution was rejected with 413 'Request Entity Too Large' in a public…
  - dead_end.first_recorded: 2026-10-21
- evidence:
  - [1] 2026-10-21: No published quota, but the whole of CPAN was only 29.0 GB in 2021 and PAUSE has publicly run out of disk. A 2 MB distribution was rejected with 413 'Request Entity Too Large' in a public…
  - [2] 2026-10-21: cited as the basis of the rejection: No published quota, but the whole of CPAN was only 29.0 GB in 2021 and PAUSE has publicly run out of disk. A 2 MB distribution was rejected with 413 'Request Entity Too Large' in a public ma
  - [3] 2026-10-21: cited as the basis of the rejection: No published quota, but the whole of CPAN was only 29.0 GB in 2021 and PAUSE has publicly run out of disk. A 2 MB distribution was rejected with 413 'Request Entity Too Large' in a public ma
- sources:
  - [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/modules@perl.org/msg53837.html
  - [2] https://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html
  - [3] https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2021/05/16/disk-space-usage-of-cpan-authors-may-16-2021-edition/