Vbulletin taking too much webspace???

[Lukman]

OK - My forums took birth 3 weeks ago and as it stands today there are 600 members - 196 threads - 592 posts and I cant believe this has taken 27mb of webspace! I do not have many attachments, pictures, smilies either... Is this about right?

I do not have that gzip installed but im deeply concerned as at this rate I will soon finish my 200mb webspace allowance in no time.

Is there a way of checking by myself how much webspace my forums is taking up as I got the above figure from my cpanel provided by my webhost.

My forums are located at http://www.nokiamagic.com

Regards

Lukman

[Steve Machol]

That sounds excessive. I have over 900 members and 17,000 posts and my database dump is around 28mb. The actual size of the vB files is under 2mb I believe.

[tubedogg]

Re: Vbulletin taking too much webspace???

Originally posted by Lukman
I do not have that pkzip thingy installed or whateva its called but im deeply concerned as at this rate I will soon finish my 200mb webspace allowance in no time.

gzip only helps with bandwidth, not space.

The figures you quoted should not be taking up 27MB of space. I don't know if your host is counting the size of your database as part of that figure or not, but a database for those figures shouldn't be over 10MB.

[Kengan]

Re: Vbulletin taking too much webspace???

Originally posted by Lukman
OK - My forums took birth 3 weeks ago and as it stands today there are 600 members - 196 threads - 592 posts and I cant believe this has taken 27mb of webspace! I do not have many attachments, pictures, smilies either... Is this about right?

I do not have that pkzip thingy installed or whateva its called but im deeply concerned as at this rate I will soon finish my 200mb webspace allowance in no time.

Is there a way of checking by myself how much webspace my forums is taking up as I got the above figure from my cpanel provided by my webhost. I have this funny feeling my webhost could be ripping me off!

My forums are located at http://www.nokiamagic.com

Regards

Lukman

Really ??? I have just upgrade to 2.01 !!! well. let me check see how is going !

[George L]

some cpanels have reported incorrect web space usage before ask your host to rerun the quota check

this is a quote from Nick the cpanel/whm developer

Cpanel determines disk usage based on quotas. You can try repquota -av to see where the space is being used . The user might own files that are not in /home.

Its also possible that the quota database is out of sync and you might want to update it by running
/sbin/quotacheck -av

those commands might be only able to be done by your web host unless you have root access to your server

[Essam]

well, back up your database and see how large it is.

And make sure you don't index words less than 4 letters.

[Kengan]

Originally posted by Essam
well, back up your database and see how large it is.

And make sure you don't index words less than 4 letters.

My xxxxxxxxx.sql files is 6Mb !

[Lukman]

Thanks guys for the replies -

How do i backup my database? Im new to databases.

[JamesUS]

To back up your DB, use this from telnet:
mysqldump -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD DBNAME > /path/to/dump.sql

Also, please fill in your license information into your profile.

[dwh]

could be mysql logging turned on.

[Kengan]

Originally posted by JamesUS
To back up your DB, use this from telnet:
mysqldump -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD DBNAME > /path/to/dump.sql

Also, please fill in your license information into your profile.

How can I fill in my license information ?

[George L]

Originally posted by Kengan


How can I fill in my license information ?

go here edit profile - http://vbulletin.com/forum/member.ph...on=editprofile and last 2 field boxes

reason for this is outlined here http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthrea...threadid=22736

[Reef Board]

Usercp > Edit Profile and its on the bottom. It is your License number and password only viewable by admins ( moderators? ) I believe.

Phil~

[Kengan]

Originally posted by eva2000
go here edit profile - http://vbulletin.com/forum/member.ph...on=editprofile and last 2 field boxes

reason for this is outlined here http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthrea...threadid=22736

Yes. I did ! Thanks for your message !