A question for the admins

#1 Postby **coriolis** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 7:20 pm

I was just curious. How much server space is now used by this board, with all the archived posts & etc?

chadtm80 · #2 Postby **chadtm80** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 7:32 pm

7.03 MB for the regular stuff and 49MB for the posts. :o

mf_dolphin · #3 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 8:18 pm

Just to add... we have 400MB of disk space on our host site so we're fine for a long time! :-)

#4 Postby **coriolis** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 8:25 pm

Wow, that doesn't seem like a lot of space used. I just thought that the pictures would take up a lot of space. Is that why we have to post a URL for pics, so they can be linked in, rather than actually stored on the server?

mf_dolphin · #5 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 8:33 pm

We supply some of the Avatars but they're pretty small. The Members Gallery photos are all stored on our server. If we allowed people up upload their own images we would run out of space pretty quickly :-)

weatherlover427 · #6 Postby **weatherlover427** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 9:07 pm

That would be 14.0075% of the total server space used.

And 85.9925% left to go.

ColdFront77 · #7 Postby **ColdFront77** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 11:40 pm

That is exactly what I just calculated, Joshua...

14.0075% of the total server space used; 85.9925% left to go.....

Furthermore, 7.139 times the boards 194 going on 195 days would mean at the current rate, so far... the board will reach 400MB at about the 1,390 day point.

weatherlover427 · #8 Postby **weatherlover427** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 12:12 am

Or approximately 3.7 years from now.

ColdFront77 · #9 Postby **ColdFront77** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 12:44 am

I get exactly 3.8 years from now. Only a difference of about 36.5 days. 8)

mf_dolphin · #10 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 11:55 am

Acttually there is a flaw in your reasoning :-)

The current board average is a little over 880 posts per day. Based on total posts/disk space used you come up with an average of 632 bytes per post. If we remained at a constant 880 posts per day we would run out of disk space in month 22. Assuming we continue to grow at a reasonable pace I would expect the actual point that we have to start pruning posts to be about 12-13 months away :-)

ColdFront77 · #11 Postby **ColdFront77** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 4:13 pm

I wasn't using the 880 posts per day average. I was using the intial numbers of space used up. Your numbers make perfect sense to me, Marshall. Sorry for the confusion.

Also, I noticed that in the off-topic forum the last five posts are, two on October 25th, one each on November 3rd, January 14th and January 15th. I assume only a very few posts have been deleted thus far... that would mean that the oldest posts in the off-topic forum, between October 25th and November 3rd and between November 3rd and January 14th-January 15th had no additional responses; not that many of the posts in between these dates were deleted. Is this true?

Thanks, Marshall.

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