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CPAN / PAUSE (pause.perl.org) Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap

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Free tier	No published byte quota, and the empirical evidence points to a tight request-body limit rather than a documented number: a 2,072,566-byte distribution was rejected with 'Upload failed (request failed with error code 413 Message: Request Entity Too Large)' in April 2024, and the same upload succeeded shortly after, so the 413 was transient rather than a hard 2 MB cap. Treat the ceiling as a few MB, undocumented. unit MB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	2 MB cap (2000000 bytes)
Retention	per-object-cap: undocumented; 413s observed around 2 MB, transient. retention: permanent and immutable per version
Egress	Free and globally mirrored (CPAN mirror ring); no metering.
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Limits	per-object-cap 2 MB cap source per-object-cap: undocumented; 413s observed around 2 MB, transient. retention: permanent and immutable per version. request-rate: not documented. Account gate: PAUSE registration requires a human-readable full name with a space (historical anti-spam check).
Binding	per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interface	rest, ftp rest
Tooling	`cpan-upload` / `pause upload` (HTTP POST to pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=add_uri), plus the historical FTP path. Read side is plain HTTP from any CPAN mirror.
Composes with	unlimited distributions x unlimited versions, but each must be a valid Perl distribution tarball with a version number in the filename, and 'you will never be able to upload a file with identical' name+version. Cardinality is real; size per unit is tiny.
Reliability	The 413 is emitted by the PAUSE web server as a request-body limit, so it behaves like a surprise ceiling that appears and disappears. Even at a generous reading this is a single-digit-MB store - three orders of magnitude from useful.
Notes	No published byte quota, and the empirical evidence points to a tight request-body limit rather than a documented number: a 2,072,566-byte distribution was rejected with 'Upload failed (request failed with error code 413 Message: Request Entity Too Large)' in April 2024, and the same upload succeeded shortly after, so the 413 was transient rather than a hard 2 MB cap. Treat the ceiling as a few MB, undocumented.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-object-cap 2.0 MB

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.mail-archive.com/modules@perl.org/msg53837.html	'I've got a 2Mb distribution which is being rejected ... 413 Message: Request Entity Too Large'
2026-10-21	www.mail-archive.com/modules@perl.org/msg53838.html	'I'm now able to upload the distribution, so that issue seems to have been temporary in nature.'
2026-10-21	www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html	'you will never be able to upload a file with identical' filename/version
2026-10-21	pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=request_id	PAUSE signup form live

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "No published byte quota, and the empirical evidence points to a tight request-body limit rather than a documented number: a 2,072,566-byte distribution was rejected with 'Upload failed (request failed with error code 413 Message: Request Entity Too Large)' in April 2024, and the same upload succeeded shortly after, so the 413 was transient rather than a hard 2 MB cap. Treat the ceiling as a few MB, undocumented.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (6)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted