In an older post I mentioned that I had a server crash. I got a new server and uploaded the old board (backed up).
Prior to the crash I had enabled the Spider Friendly option as well as the 404 error option. A few days later I got "disk quota exceeded" messages from the server even though there was plenty of space. The server then died.
Now, with a new server, I just started getting the same error but when I check the disk space I have a massive amount. Is it at all possible that this weird error is related to the board?
When you are getting disk quota errors, be sure that your server is not out of space, or you do not have a limit on the number of files allowed. I've been using the spider friendly URls for some time now without issue. I think most of the bugs with them have been squashed. I tried plenty of stupid things with them <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
[EDIT] In addition, the UBB cannot lie about Disk problems. If you are seeing Disk Out of Space, or Disk Quota exceeded errors, those are coming from the Operating System, not the UBB. You need to address those with your host.
Agreed with Ron; I've been using the spider friendly URL's option since 6.7 came out... Prior to 6.7 I was running another mod that allowed spidering and never had issues with that either.
Its my server, dedicated. I was forced to increase my disk space every 15 minutes. The second I disabled the spider friendly option of the board I gained 5G more space and there were no further glitches now for almost 24hours. I still have gigs of space from my inital increase.
I checked the quota settings on the server (while this was happening) and it showed that there was TONS of space left even though the server was getting killed with disk quota errors. If the spiders were caching pages would that have shown in the disk quota? Shouldnt I be able to see wher the space was getting eaten up?? If not, I have to say that this is a serious serious bug. My colocation company wanted to entirely wipe the drive claiming Operating System damage due to this.
Im not saying its entirely a ubb fault though. Its just that since I changed the ubb settings I havent had a server crash, the board is working perfect, and the quota messages are accurate through telnet readings. A simple answer is "dont use spider friendly option" but still I thought I might mention this
I've yet to have an issue like this; I have a nice sized board and I work at the host that I'm hosted at... I've never had this sort of issue; try to load the error logs and see if there were any issues.
I reccomend you reenable the spider links, and if you ever get the disk quota error again, load your ftp client and check the size of the NonCGI/Cache-**** folder and see if it's unusually large (ie the 5GB you mentioned)
