Does deleting msgs cause the forum to get slow?

LOL, we'll be all moved over to you in a couple weeks, Bruce. Limits or not......... that so-called unlimited SQL is great, but constant connection issues and resets of the memory pool are not fine. I'll put up with paying a bit for the space if that means the host can use that money to keep things better.

Besides, with the customer service you folks offer here, not much scares me now. If we have an issue, we simply start a "ticket" and get it dealt with. The other host simply said "sorry, that's your problem".

I run SQL2005 on my home system and IIS and have a duplicate of the forum running to play with settings and appearances, and it's SO nice to have that SQL management right there.

I've deleted a lot of old messages from our current forum based on SQL, on the current/old host, they are no longer relevant, and it did nothing to slow or speed anything. zero impact, other than one of the mods who posts a LOT in that area asked what was up with his post count going down by 50. He said, honest, he's laid off the beer so it wasn't that....
I explained - house-keeping ahead of our move. I move I simply can't wait to happen now!

QUESTION - if the SQL database BACKUP file is 28 meg, what is the actual SQL server database size or space taken on the server??  Just curious.