people write new threads and do new posts every minute of the day all day every day 367 days a year lol (wait for it)

 

and as much as i agree this thread is as much bullshmit as a fair few others i wonder if things ever have to be cleared off. or is it one massive server or what?

Turb0z has to hand write everything that over a year old, Takes him all his time ;)

i can confirm that they do delete posts to keep the numbers down

prob sunded like a stupid question but i was guessing we only rent a certain amount of web space or are limited to server capacity, however they work where s the info stored?

i can confirm that they do delete posts to keep the numbers down

 

explain ???

they likely trim off really old posts, and posts that have pics on them taking up space !

Ok so basicly, the forum runs on a Database which is written in SQL, all the data gets put into fields on the database in basic terms. At the moment with all the posts i would guess the database would be at around 300mb, the forum posts are only around 2kb each, as all the backgrounds and what not are shared. Oh and databases can hold alot of info, most of the time if the specs of the server running as per the amount of info it can hold

Edited September 7, 201015 yr by murt

prob sunded like a stupid question but i was guessing we only rent a certain amount of web space or are limited to server capacity, however they work where s the info stored?

 

I thought it was a good question mate, I would like to know too, I have often wandered :yes:

I have a current single mysql database with 148 GB of data so if this forum is at 300mb plenty easy.

 

Lots of tricks and tips you can use to run very very big databases fast. A PHP accelerator would be first and mod_gzip is very useful.

I'm a web developer part time and 300mb is nothing for a SQL server to handle !

 

Not quite FaceBook Server status yet so plenty of room to expand yet i say !

I'm a web developer

 

You should never make a statement like that or every one will want you to do sites for them.. specially family :pinch:

dont mind doing sites, but will charge a fortune for them !

im a web developer too, but for boring management information, not jazzy sites! and i think i can confirm old post's don't get deleted cos i managed to find my first few the other week. :o