How BIG is your VB?

[Dalius]

107 Members
568 Posts

Err, How do i check how big the database file is?

So far this month, ive used 17 megs of bandwidth

*feels small*

[eva2000]

Originally posted by smachol
Does anyone else feel slightly weird when we start comparing size?

nah it's a natural socially conditioned trait

[Martz]

Members: 700 and something
Posts: 250,000 +
Threads: 10,000 +

Bandwidth: I hit 9.8 GB of traffic at the end of November, which was the largest amount transfered so far in a single month. These are my stats for the month so far:

Day Hits Files Pages Visits KBytes 
1 187221 44454 26012 790 268315 
2 227644 59707 28884 897 326211 
3 148364 40258 20794 665 230458 
4 207570 58384 27156 833 285053 
5 178011 51062 23385 886 245490 
6 207087 54054 28585 964 299223 
7 252846 69863 34128 1011 399770 
8 216895 62033 29660 1026 344828 
9 198294 59508 26917 969 355433 
10 251944 62032 30861 966 402017 
11 226891 60149 30273 1001 369315 
12 172491 48597 24466 907 277489 
13 177018 57880 31423 915 410697

Hope this gives you a general idea! I'm paying ?20 per month for my host (a really good 1 off special deal). But I am going to start breaking my allocations.

Once you get these things going they seem to snowball. GL.

[CloudBurst]

wow, thanks loads
any more would be really aperciated!

OK: Well, I'm aming at at board (built up over 5/6 months) of about Members: 300, Threads: 1000, Posts: 9000.
I gather that I'll be using about 2/3 gig of bandwidth a month and that will fill about 20 meg.
^ Is that *roughly* right, because from the above posts, it's hard to gauge!

- CB

[bitbender]

Bitbenderforums has been about since Summer 2001, is self hosted on a DSL 384/384 IP subnet of it's own, and:

Registered Members: 126
Total Threads: 2056 | Total Posts: 18812 | New Threads Today: 99

Now, I run the usenet news server hack, and a lot of the others too

The usenet hack rakes in alot of the new posts (mostly trash) each day, but does bring in some gold mines from time to time.

Current Database is about 180 meg

[Steve Machol]

Originally posted by CloudBurst

I gather that I'll be using about 2/3 gig of bandwidth a month and that will fill about 20 meg.
^ Is that *roughly* right, because from the above posts, it's hard to gauge! - CB

You're right, it is hard to gauge. If you allow file uploads and expect this to be used extensively, then your estimate will need to be higher, perhaps considerably. If you don't allow files to be uploaded and/or you don't expect this to be used much, then this estimate is probably correct.

[bitbender]

Did I mention these folks are Great at helping a fella out with the tech aspects of this board? Well, in my experience, they do !!!

File Uploads..yes, that's the majority of the space in my DB, because we do alot of PC pix shots, and the like...As smachol said, plan accordingly....

I allocated 120GB of HDD to the Server(AMD 1.2Ghz/KT7A/1.256GB PC150 memory) I built to house the forum, and one of the few benefits of business DSL accounts, is that there is no limits on 'how' much is transacted each month, just that 'sizeable' payment....

But that all depends on your cost models, and support requirements for your forum. Since I tend to spend every waking moment with mainframes or PC's, this works fo me.

[Mark Hensler]

I didn't know RAM came in PC150. I'm looking at a ComputerEdge magazine right now, and I can't find any at that speed. Closest I can find is PC133 SDRAM or 266MHz DDR RAM.

Anyway, 1.256GB is quite a bit.

[Hoffi]

Hi,

1300 Members
56000 Posts in 6800 Threads
about 100 Megs on the HDD and 11GB Traffic/Month!

[bitbender]

Originally posted by Mark Hensler
I didn't know RAM came in PC150. I'm looking at a ComputerEdge magazine right now, and I can't find any at that speed. Closest I can find is PC133 SDRAM or 266MHz DDR RAM.

Anyway, 1.256GB is quite a bit.

Yup, PC150 SDRAM, I've the receipt about here somewhere, pretty sure it's kingston. I would like to move it to one of my machines that has DDR memory, but I just hate fooling with things that are working already.

As for the 1Gb+ of memory, that's what a lot of folks told me that I would need, so when I built the forum server, I just went ahead, and planned for it then...My credit cards knew...

As for the sea of HDD space, I just figured more is always better than less, or at least it works that way in the mainframes...

I've included a small gif (52k) that shows where I shop for stuff, www.pricewatch.com . They have a summary of all suppliers across america, and yes, with some, one must be careful of, but it's a quick, easy way to see what stuff is selling for...any computer hardware, and a number of other tings, as well...Enjoy