Did Andrew get a ton more server space? There's over 50,000 posts up!

lawson · 11-04-2002, 03:57 AM

I was noticing this when i attempted to delete all my posts. it used to be that anything to far over 10,000 on the general chat was too much- now there's 37,000 in general chat! also you couldnt count on a general chat thread to last more than 2 days after the last person posted on it- now the 11th page is 5 days since its been posted on.

can we expect this to be the norm now?

DeviousJ · 11-04-2002, 10:17 AM

Probably comes from holding individual messages instead of entire HTML files

lawson · 11-04-2002, 10:25 AM

wicked awesome. now i can go to sleep!

severin · 11-04-2002, 10:31 AM

and the fact, that databases compress the data and html-files don't

another thing is, that a signature is only saved once, and not every time posted.

Andrew_Pakula · 11-04-2002, 11:56 AM

Exactly, with Vbulleting it hardly takes up any drive space.

UBB was such a disk hog, creating huge cgi files for posts and then the actual html pages as well, so whatever the size of the thread was it was actually taking up double the space on the server.

Now with Vbulletin we can pretty much leave all the posts for now, just let it rack up and I don't have to worry about the disk space.

On the music board however a large amount of threads got deleted somehow but I am not sure how that happened exactly....

DeviousJ · 11-04-2002, 12:20 PM

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Originally posted by Andrew_Pakula
On the music board however a large amount of threads got deleted somehow but I am not sure how that happened exactly....

BAD MODERATOR

11-04-2002, 03:57 AM	#1
lawson Apocalyptic Poster Location: raleigh Posts: 4,176	Did Andrew get a ton more server space? There's over 50,000 posts up! I was noticing this when i attempted to delete all my posts. it used to be that anything to far over 10,000 on the general chat was too much- now there's 37,000 in general chat! also you couldnt count on a general chat thread to last more than 2 days after the last person posted on it- now the 11th page is 5 days since its been posted on. can we expect this to be the norm now?

11-04-2002, 10:31 AM	#4
severin no more than sympathy Location: lying on the floor Posts: 14,826	and the fact, that databases compress the data and html-files don't another thing is, that a signature is only saved once, and not every time posted. __________________ i once told a To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. that nothing really ends

11-04-2002, 10:17 AM	#2
DeviousJ CORNFROST Location: GUREITO DESU YO Posts: 24,891	Probably comes from holding individual messages instead of entire HTML files

11-04-2002, 10:25 AM	#3
lawson Apocalyptic Poster Location: raleigh Posts: 4,176	wicked awesome. now i can go to sleep!

11-04-2002, 11:56 AM	#5
Andrew_Pakula Fine! I'll go make my own web site. With Blackjack, and Hookers... Actually, forget the web site. Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 3,809	Exactly, with Vbulleting it hardly takes up any drive space. UBB was such a disk hog, creating huge cgi files for posts and then the actual html pages as well, so whatever the size of the thread was it was actually taking up double the space on the server. Now with Vbulletin we can pretty much leave all the posts for now, just let it rack up and I don't have to worry about the disk space. On the music board however a large amount of threads got deleted somehow but I am not sure how that happened exactly....