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Kevin Lin · Leader of the pack

Greetings Moderators, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that our host, Pair Networks, has doubled our server disk allocation at no charge from 200 MB to 400MB.

The bad news is that our average daily usage last month was 418MB, of which about 320MB was in the Forums.

So just a friendly reminder to Moderators to try and keep their Forum byte counts down by purging old threads.

Thanks for all your efforts in keeping the Forums running smoothly.

HyToFry · Drama queen

I have an idea that may save us some space at the sacrafice of cpu.

Right now the threads are stored as html. These load faster, but take up an astronomical amount of space. If the code were rewritten to build the pages on the fly, the cpu usage would increase, but the server space would decrease. I'm not sure how much CPU usage would increase, but I have seen other boards which load the pages dynamically.

code:



Space taken by HTML:


102,473,302 - VSP


 84,193,033 - OT


 69,849,180 - VSG


256,515,515 - TOT





Space taken by threads:


13,918,743 - VSP


15,430,811 - OT


11,278,913 - VSG


40,628,467 - TOT

That's the current space being taken up by the html and the thread files. Switching ubb to this new format would save that much space. Also users would be able to customize the look of the forums. For example, one user might want to only see ten posts on a page, while another wants to see sixty. These features wouldn't have to be built in, but they could if we wanted them to.

Just an idea.

HyToFry · Drama queen

Another idea that would decrease size is to use server side includes for the header and footer. Of course if your server doesn't support these, it's not possible.

Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

Whilst you are sorting that out Hy, removing some old rubbish is a good idea anyway...

HyToFry · Drama queen

The problem with that is that I don't think it deletes the html.

I could be wrong... let me try an experiment before I post this.

Well I tried it, it deleted it.

Weird. [=

I don't know about pages 2-...

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