Misplaced curiosity ?

[bada]

So, catchy title?
Question for admins/modo's
Marcel

Because not wanting to die stupid and not knowing how the forums works IRL, i'm toying for fun on Wamp for few weeks with the 3 main free php forum softwares (phpBB, SMF,myBB) and looking at the SQL DB going up in size each time i modify something, add a post/thread for testing purposes and i was wondering:
what size does have a forum as here, with all the images, all the pdf's and the thousends of posts?
...

 

[Marcel]

So, catchy title?
Question for admins/modo's
Marcel

Because not wanting to die stupid and not knowing how the forums works IRL, i'm toying for fun on Wamp for few weeks with the 3 main free php forum softwares (phpBB, SMF,myBB) and looking at the SQL DB going up in size each time i modify something, add a post/thread for testing purposes and i was wondering:
what size does have a forum as here, with all the images, all the pdf's and the thousends of posts?
...

Actually I really couldn't tell. I'm guessing it's grown quite a bit over the years. I believe Horse is using AWS to host this stuff (correct me if I'm wrong horseUSA ). There you have S3 objectstore that also tiers the data, meaning that data that is not accessed for a while migrates to slower, less expensive storage. This is than mostly for the attachments.

I know that the posts themselves don't take up taht much data. I've crawled this forum in the past for certain statistics and the textual content in json format fits nicely on my laptop, so that shouldn't be a problem.
Be aware that in a database, indexing will add significantly to the used harddrive space. So it's always a trade off between performance and storage space. Further more, if you use MySQL (or MariaDB as it's called now), it will not give back the storage space when you delete things. You'll manually have to clean up that room.

 

[bada]

Thanks Marcel!
Even if there is no approximative number, at least i can be sure it's a hell of work if the admin need to put the "Files" into external storage, just writing the rule must be heavy if you're not a "server-guy". There must be some crone tasks running here

 

[Marcel]

Thanks Marcel!
Even if there is no approximative number, at least i can be sure it's a hell of work if the admin need to put the "Files" into external storage, just writing the rule must be heavy if you're not a "server-guy". There must be some crone tasks running here

There are definitely a lot of asynchronous jobs running. What I've seen from horse is that he's competent in his job here.

 

[Crimea_River]

I thought we had to speak English in this forum.

 

[Marcel]

I thought we had to speak English in this forum.

je ne peut pas parle d'Anglais.

 

[SaparotRob]

je ne peut pas parle d'Anglais.

Me neither.

 

[bada]

je ne peut pas parle d'Anglais.

Ja Marcel, bijna, bijna juist

 

[Marcel]

Ja Marcel, bijna, bijna juist

Forgot the R, you're right. It's been a long time since I spoke or wrote any French