How To Estimate Size And backup
 

Hi All

I am new to vb and with less knowledge.

I am running my forum on shared hosting plan. and want to know few things:

1 >

I wanted to know how to take complet backup of my forum , database and everything , so that in case if their is any security hack or server change i can restore it back

SO PLEASE can anyone let me know how to take complete backup. And restore backup .

2 >

i took backup of databse from maintenance option under admin panel and 19 MB size sql file was created .

now currently 2000 posts and topics are on my forum and backup size is 19 MB

dose this mean if i get 10000 posts and topic the size will be 100 MB ???

or i am missing some files to delete or something like that

please exlain how how can i tweak or minimise this size

3 >

As mentioned before i am on shared hosting plan please let me know how can i tweak my forum settings so that the server can resist 600 to 700 visitors PER DAY

please help me if anyone can , it wil be really appreciated or let me know hu and were can i get these answers.

Thank you

You found it. Do a backup in cpanel, plus backup your db in cpanel. Eventually you may want to investigate automated backups for your db.

FYI, don't keep images in your db unless it's a very small forum.

From the manual about database backups and restoring:
Backing Up The Database via SSH/Telnet or
Backing Up The Database via phpMyAdmin

Restoring The Database via SSH/Telnet or
Restoring The Database via phpMyAdmin

thank you so much both of you for providing me such a useful link

and any idea or any suggetion what can i do to tweak minimum server load ?
i mean i get 600 visitors PER DAY so any seetings advise to make servr load minimum?

For server tweaking, please ask at the server configuration forum at vB.com. But on a shared host there is often not much tweaking you can do.

Visitors Per Day isn't a particularly relevant figure, as many of those can be search bots. What you're going to be keeping your eye on is Simultaneous Members Online. i.e., Beyond some 20-40 online at once you can start to have trouble with shared hosting. More with no mods, less with some.