Big Problem...
 

My forum outgrew the database ( > 100MB) and, now everythings froze up. I can't access the adminCP to delete/prune threads - and everything is coming to a grinding halt. Someone please HELP!!! What can I do ?

--EG

Why is your database limited to 100MB?

Dirty host :(

Can you not upgrade your plan? That's going to be you're only option I think at this point.

If you still have access to the database in any other way (phpMyAdmin/SSH/Telnet) then you could empty the 'word' table. This one can get pretty big and is used for post searching. You can always later rebuild it.

open another account elsewhere and have the host transfer contents

The host is being extremely difficult.

Is there any way to manually backup the VB files, before I attempt anything?

Thx,
EG

Additionally - through PHPmyADMIN is there any way to specifically delete a single forum? B/c all I want to delete is my "newsgroup" forum.

Thx!

You could ftp to the site and copy your vB files, but this won't help with the database.

Don't you have phpmyadmin or SSH/mysql access to your database to do as MarcoH64 suggested ?

I do have access to PHPmyadmin.

Not sure what I can do from there??

I dumped the WORD table - but I'm still short 40mb. Really need to delete one forum that I had newsgroups in. Any idea on how to do that from phpmyadmin?

You can also clearout the "postindex" table - it is also rebuilt when you re-index your posts. When you say "dumped" you do mean you deleted all the records ?