Any guesses?
250,000 is alot of messages and there are quite a number of posts with pictures.
Just curious.
The server doesn’t store pics, just links to where they already are on the internet. But that is still a lot of posts.
That’s funny you ask that. I was just wondering about that yesterday. It must be rather large.
I bet it isn’t as much as you think. It is probably SQL database and this forum is not all that complicated and doesn’t use avatars or polls etc. My bet is it is only a couple GB maybe.
I think you meant a MySQL database : ) SQL is just a language you use to access and modify the data in a database.
OR maybe he meant SQL Server database… or maybe just any generic relational database that supports SQL …
250,000 posts don’t take up nearly as much space as people might imagine. Even at 4KB/post (way bigger than the average, I would think), 250,000 posts would only take ~1GB. By modern storage standards, 1GB is almost nothing.
Slowtwitch doesn’t store the pictures shown in the posts… Any post which uses a picture stores the picture elsewhere and simply points to the other location in the HTML.
I would be curious what kind of bandwidth the server uses, though. 500GB/month?
-Mark Rebuck, http://www.markrebuck.com/
Exactly what I meant, thanks 
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According to Netcraft, slowtwitch is running on Microsoft-IIS/5.0. Looks like it averages 63 days uptime.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.slowtwitch.com&probe=1
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=ATTENS-007816-000069,199.106.67.0,199.106.67.255
On the other hand, http://bikesportmichigan.com is running FreeBSD Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/4.3.4
Andy