UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.classic UBB.classic 6 Support How to reduce space used by board?

I guess my board has grown beyond the 100MB limit my ISP has allowed me. Seems hard to believe since my message board is somewhat small...but I guess it is. So now I need to do some maintenance to pare it down a bit...can anyone give some good advice on what to do?

I have never pruned topics...is that what I need to do? When I do that do they disappear forever?

Will clearing the cache help?

And I recently did some exporting of member files and posts...can I delete the the txt files in the Import/Export directory?

As always thanks in advance for your thoughts and suggestions!
Mark

Clearing the cache will only temporarily help the space problem as it will rebuild itself.

Assuming you are on the current version:

- Delete inactive Members (I start with the 0 post members first)
- Prune some topics old topics, if there are ones you wish to keep, create an archive forum. Pruned topics are gone forever.

If you don't want to do either of those, consider getting a higher disk quota or move to a host with more space.

Thanks Ron.

If I create the archive forum, I'm assuming it will take up the same amount of space...is that correct?

Do you know if there is a way from the control panel to determine how much space is being used by the forum? (Maybe by forum #?) That would be nice if I could see at a glance what was being used...instead of trying to determine it through my FTP software, but I do not see anything in the control panel that will do that...

Is 100MB considered small, average, large, etc... for a UBB Classic board? Just wondering how much extra space I can figure on purchasing.

Thanks again.
Mark

Archived topics take the same amout of space as regular topics.

The space depends mainly on the number of topics, forums, and users that you are willing to keep around.

Off hand, I don't know of a good way to determine how large the forums are sizewise.

Regarding how much additional space to purchase, I personally, am using about 218MB of my 500MB (reading from my Plesk), for my UBB, my custom PHP dev stuff (both production and beta), the MySQL database, and all images, extra files, personal storage.

And I recently did some exporting of member files and posts...can I delete the the txt files in the Import/Export directory?

YES! According to CC, your export takes up about as much space as your board, meaning deleting that could get you 50MB back

100 megs of disk space is small; at HostNuke that's like $9/mo.

If you have exported files go prune those first as they can double your boards space (I believe the documentation even sais that).