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As many of you will know I host and run this site for YC. This is free and I cover the costs (apart from domain registration which we rely on donations to cover). Unfortunately the Database that keeps the forum running is consuming far too much space on the web-server and I have recently received emails from the hosting company asking me to reduce the space used or start paying a vastly increased sum. As such I'm looking at ways to reduce the disk space the forum uses. Now one of the things we've never done is clear out old topics !.... EVER ! So, I would like to ask you, the users of the forum what you'd like to do about it  For instance, I could clear out all topics that haven't been active for any given period of time (not including sticky topics) etc..... I believe this to be the best route. A full backup of the database will be taken before any "cleaning" obviously but this is something that we need to do pretty soon, before I get a big bill  Please feel free to post below any suggestions for dates for which un-used forum topics can be cleared out etc etc.... Thanks Si |
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Al
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« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2010, 05:31:27 PM » |
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I reckon delete all posts/topics older than 2009. quite alot of topics havent been posted in in ages.
Take away the ability to add photos to topics (other than from an image hosting w/site).
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« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2010, 07:34:21 PM » |
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What Al said!  |
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« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2010, 07:34:51 PM » |
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Sounds like a good plan
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« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2010, 09:11:12 PM » |
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Sounds like a plan Al |
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« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2010, 07:38:42 PM » |
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I concur |
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« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2010, 05:19:44 PM » |
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Can we keep the nights away, but get rid of other stuff.
I think we have had a clearout once (maybe about 2/3 years ago now) so about due!
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« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2010, 07:04:06 AM » |
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Oh yeah, the nights away needs to stay (hmmm that kinda ryhmes! ) |
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« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2010, 08:32:01 PM » |
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Thats fine, I'll make the "nights away" sticky and they won't get trimmed.
Any other comments on this thread before I do this later this week ?
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« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2010, 11:27:25 PM » |
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Panic over....
I found the culprit was an overzealous logging system on the forum.... once cleared out, the forum database has gone from 3.5GIG to 60MEG ! :-) Thats more like it.
No need to remove anything, all is good.... nothing to see here, move along ;-)
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« Reply #10 on: June 15, 2010, 07:17:07 AM » |
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Sorted!
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« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2010, 04:11:26 PM » |
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That is 1 massive log! Glad you found an easy fix Has the anomaly where me being left logged in hogs band width been fixed? Or is it best for me to continue closing all yc tabs as soon as I finish reading them |
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« Reply #12 on: June 17, 2010, 04:52:42 PM » |
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is it worth a clearout anyway?
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« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2010, 08:26:03 AM » |
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When I first found yc I looked at a good chunk of the previous threads. Often the same or similar topics are talked about. E.g. how do you choose a van, how do you fix a...
If there is no space problem I would leave it with useful history (the old chatter could go if someone fancied sifting it)
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« Reply #14 on: June 18, 2010, 11:47:45 AM » |
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I agree with Ad, if there isn't an issue with space i'd leave it... I also found yc the same way
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