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antp
First, sorry if some parts of my message are hard to understand for those that do not have many technical knowledge - I just hope that at least some members will understand it to give comments/ideas.
I received an e-mail from OVH (where IMCDB site is hosted) because the database is currently 45 MB. The maximal size is 50 MB.
That database contains all info except pictures (so comments, car names, movie titles, etc.) - pictures take nearly 3000 MB but currently it is not a problem, that limit is at 20000 MB.
I thought that I could easily have a bigger database when the site would reach the maximal database size, but that option is not available anymore.
So the possibilities are the following:
1 - move to another hosting company
2 - delete many "useless" comments
3 - store oldest comments separately
4 - store "useless" comments separately
1 : will only work some time, as the database size will continue to increase.
2 : except some debates with explorer4x4, I am not sure that so many comments could be deleted because they would be useless.
3 : this may be annoying as it would slow down the display of the pages containing old comments, or make oldest comment not directly visible (like current "archived" comments)
4 : as mentioned in point 3, the comments marked as "archived" could be moved to a separate database.
Currently I think that the point 4 is the best solution for short/medium-term.
At short term, we could move off-topic discussions to "archive" database. So they would be available from a link on the movie/vehicle comment page like current archived comments.
At medium term, we could move the discussions related to identification of a car, as they are less useful once the car is identified for sure.
So do you think that it would be an acceptable solution for the next months?
This weekend I will do a test to see how much the current archived messages "weight", so if the solution 4 could help us for few months without anything to do to the non-archived messages.
I received an e-mail from OVH (where IMCDB site is hosted) because the database is currently 45 MB. The maximal size is 50 MB.
That database contains all info except pictures (so comments, car names, movie titles, etc.) - pictures take nearly 3000 MB but currently it is not a problem, that limit is at 20000 MB.
I thought that I could easily have a bigger database when the site would reach the maximal database size, but that option is not available anymore.
So the possibilities are the following:
1 - move to another hosting company
2 - delete many "useless" comments
3 - store oldest comments separately
4 - store "useless" comments separately
1 : will only work some time, as the database size will continue to increase.
2 : except some debates with explorer4x4, I am not sure that so many comments could be deleted because they would be useless.
3 : this may be annoying as it would slow down the display of the pages containing old comments, or make oldest comment not directly visible (like current "archived" comments)
4 : as mentioned in point 3, the comments marked as "archived" could be moved to a separate database.
Currently I think that the point 4 is the best solution for short/medium-term.
At short term, we could move off-topic discussions to "archive" database. So they would be available from a link on the movie/vehicle comment page like current archived comments.
At medium term, we could move the discussions related to identification of a car, as they are less useful once the car is identified for sure.
So do you think that it would be an acceptable solution for the next months?
This weekend I will do a test to see how much the current archived messages "weight", so if the solution 4 could help us for few months without anything to do to the non-archived messages.