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Yes · « **on:** October 06, 2007, 04:32:49 pm »

Will the threads of these forums ever get deleted? Because eventually over time their will be a lot.

Laser Guy · « **Reply #1 on:** October 06, 2007, 04:34:59 pm »

I guess they won't since they are like chronicles of the SOldat community gathered here.

FliesLikeABrick · « **Reply #2 on:** October 06, 2007, 05:00:48 pm »

We have no reason to delete them, so no, they won't be deleted.

urraka · « **Reply #3 on:** October 06, 2007, 07:23:10 pm »

You can't just erase the history! man!

a-4-year-old · « **Reply #4 on:** October 06, 2007, 07:24:52 pm »

Quote from: PerroAZUL on October 06, 2007, 07:23:10 pm

You can't just erase the history! man!

is that a challenge? Â¬_Â¬

urraka · « **Reply #5 on:** October 06, 2007, 07:37:58 pm »

Quote from: a-4-year-old on October 06, 2007, 07:24:52 pm

Quote from: PerroAZUL on October 06, 2007, 07:23:10 pm
You can't just erase the history! man!
is that a challenge? Â¬_Â¬

It was just a comment, do I have to explain? Oo

LtKillroy · « **Reply #6 on:** October 06, 2007, 08:17:29 pm »

Quote from: PerroAZUL on October 06, 2007, 07:23:10 pm

You can't just erase the history! man!

Tell that to Hitler.

Yes · « **Reply #7 on:** October 06, 2007, 11:32:06 pm »

Quote from: FliesLikeABrick on October 06, 2007, 05:00:48 pm

We have no reason to delete them, so no, they won't be deleted.

Well I was thinking like won't your server or whatever is hosting this site will get full of threads and won't be able to hold them.

Quote from: a-4-year-old on October 06, 2007, 07:24:52 pm

Quote from: PerroAZUL on October 06, 2007, 07:23:10 pm
You can't just erase the history! man!
is that a challenge? Â¬_Â¬

Rofl.

echo_trail · « **Reply #8 on:** October 07, 2007, 12:36:00 am »

It's kinda fun to look back at the first threads and posts we made, at least for us who were around at the beginning.

Quote from: LtKillroy on October 06, 2007, 08:17:29 pm

Quote from: PerroAZUL on October 06, 2007, 07:23:10 pm
You can't just erase the history! man!
Tell that to Hitler.

Hitler never attempted to erase history.. In fact, he used the history of the jews to prove to his people that they were the cause of the economic underdog...ism(

) If anything, Hitler made history, even if he sucked at it.

FliesLikeABrick · « **Reply #9 on:** October 09, 2007, 11:33:15 am »

This server can handle more threads than these forums will likely ever throw at it. As for speed, SMF is designed for speed and should not need to be purged to keep speed up.

Key points :

The soldatforums pages and content (including attachments, avatars, images, etc) only takes up 846MB. 824MB of that is attachments. This is after over a year of being used.
The forums database (that stores all of the settings, users, posts, threads, PMs and everything else) uses 377MB of space on the server
The server's main directory where everything is stored, /home, is currently only 3.7GB used. This includes all of the website and database data for Soldat, Crimson Glory, R, Link-Dead, and everything else for MM's projects
/home is 137GB in size (three uberfast 73GB hard drives in a multi-disk array for redundancy and extra performance)
The CPU usage on the server rarely goes above 2% total. The server is a dual dual-core machine, so it has 4x2.4GHz and 4GB of RAM.
For those of you who are initiated in Linux/Unix, the load averages are 0.03 0.08 0.08 right now.

I built this server with future expansion and load in mind. If we ever run out of disk space, I have room for 4 more disks to add to the /home array, and that can be done with minimal interruption to the server's functions. The Soldat forums are not a resource concern, and they won't be for a long time

edit: http://sysinfo.wizard.u13.net/

Laser Guy · « **Reply #10 on:** October 09, 2007, 11:42:43 am »

AND A BIG HIP HIP HOORAY FOR FLAB PPL!!!! (he's the one in charge of the servers)

a-4-year-old · « **Reply #11 on:** October 09, 2007, 02:24:16 pm »

REALLY? FLAB RUNS THE SERVERS? I NEVER KNEW BECAUSE I HAVE ONLY HALF A BRAIN CELL.

oh and linux isn't that fast, .47 seconds? pathetic.

FliesLikeABrick · « **Reply #12 on:** October 09, 2007, 02:25:19 pm »

If I turn DNS lookups off, it'll go significantly faster.

yv3 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 09, 2007, 02:51:09 pm »

@FLAB: don't you backup the database?

FliesLikeABrick · « **Reply #14 on:** October 09, 2007, 03:19:55 pm »

Quote from: yv3 on October 09, 2007, 02:51:09 pm

@FLAB: don't you backup the database?

yes, why do you ask?

yv3 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 10, 2007, 03:36:18 am »

just wondered that you don't mention it in your post before...

backup is very important, i copy my harddisk to another one every half year or so and give it to my parents to hide...

bja888 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 10, 2007, 04:14:57 am »

Quote from: yv3 on October 10, 2007, 03:36:18 am

just wondered that you don't mention it in your post before...

backup is very important, i copy my harddisk to another one every half year or so and give it to my parents to hide...

Are you trying to say that he should back up the database? Or that you did not know he controls the server(s)?

yv3 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 15, 2007, 04:04:40 am »

He would be an asshole if he wouldn't backup the DB (because of the many posts lost accidently). That's what i meant...

BTW: I hope the Backups aren't in the same room/house like the serverÂ

!

I'm a little paranoid sorry

, not for the forum but for my own data.

FliesLikeABrick · « **Reply #18 on:** October 15, 2007, 04:06:27 am »

All of my MySQL database servers are backed up in real time to 2 separate locations, and snapshots of the databases are taken every 6 hours so that if something happens (and the problem is replicated instantly), I have a fixed point to restore from

yv3 · « **Reply #19 on:** October 15, 2007, 04:07:03 am »

...that should be enough!

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