suspended account due to 1.7 gig database Need help@

[ryancooper]

Great . . .

I just suspended your account because you said you were
going to prune your database. You went ahead and ran a
repair on the database and the file size of the database
has also gone up instead of down. The database is now
1.8GB. The repair commands you were running brought the
server down twice which caused a lot of downtime for over
200 customers.

[filburt1]

Repair optimizes the database, too. If anything, after the query was done it should have greatly (well not greatly) reduced your db size.

[ryancooper]

Well either way I am now jsut trying to get them to un-suspend me so I can "hopefully" salvage the remander of the site. Looks Like i have a looooong night ahead of me! LOL

[filburt1]

If that's shared hosting then you'll need to find a dedicated server quickly. No sane host will let you use that much space.

[Zach]

I would start with your searchindex

screw everything else

493.8 MB is my search index of a 1.1 gig database. If you got to do something start there.

[Erwin]

400,000 USENET posts? Get rid of them, since most members don't look at them much.

[ryancooper]

too late they want 200 bucks to repair the database. Looks like i am starting from scratch. . .

[Thewnagchung]

Today at 02:30 AM ryancooper said this in Post #17
too late they want 200 bucks to repair the database. Looks like i am starting from scratch. . .

If they have a dedicated server plan ask them if you buy it from them if they will transfer the database to it.

[ryancooper]

dedicated server runs over 100 bucks a month. I can'f afford that

[Erwin]

200 bucks to repair the database? That's steep. Are you sure they can charge you for that?