Separate Databses or use the same?

[kobescoresagain]

I am planning on having a large autograph request address list on my site, I have designed my database the way I want it, the problem is that I am not sure if I should put it with my vbulletin database or keep it seperate. I only have 50 mb of space for each database. I have 50 databases though. So I am not sure if I will run out of space anytime soon. Also I want to make sure that I will never lose any infomraiotn when installing a hack, while I am pretty sure a hack would not conflict with the my table names, I am just afraid that I might lose all my work. Any suggestions on how I should do it ?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

If the size of each database is limited to 50Mb (which could quickly become not enough for just vB, depending on your settings and how much posted etc.), i would seperate them.

PS Looking for a new host might be a better solution.

[kobescoresagain]

sorry it isn't 50 mb, it is 100 mbs, do you still recommend doing them seperate? How much sizewise should I expect my database to be?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Yes advise would be the same.

Sorry but without more info on your site (#members, #posts, content of post (short/long/images), storage method attachmebts/avatars/etc. (database or filesystem), etc..) i can not give you an answer.

[Xenon]

100mb is still not much

for example vbulletin.org has over 1.5 GB db size and still growing, and there are larger boards around...

[kobescoresagain]

Thanks for your help. It is weird that they give me 50 dbs with 100 mbs each, instead of giving me like 5 larger ones.