OT - How many posts does your forum have?
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Topic: OT - How many posts does your forum have?
Posted By: Albert
Subject: OT - How many posts does your forum have?
Date Posted: 15 May 2013 at 6:45pm
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Just a quick question for any webwiz forum owners. I'm curious to know who has the most posts on their forum among all the webwiz forum owners, or who has ever heard of the most posts on a WW forum. At avianflutalk.com after 7 1/2 years we're up to 5000 members and currently have 178,000 posts in 22,000 topics.
Or please feel free to share the stats on your forum.
Best,
Albert
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 15 May 2013 at 7:45pm
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We use to host a Web Wiz Forums on our network before the owner finally called it a day and closed the forum that had just under 6 million posts. Near the bottom of the page below are some links to some Web Wiz Forums hosted on the Web Wiz network some with over 1 million posts:- http://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-demo.htm" rel="nofollow - http://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-demo.htm
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Posted By: Albert
Date Posted: 16 May 2013 at 1:20pm
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wow. Those are the largest numbers I've seen on a forum. at least I have one of them beat, lol. I also see that my web design guy got inspired on our skin colors by one of them, except he's still using the blue buttons.
Anyway, thanks for the links. Those forums are very impressive, to say the least. I suppose I will have to wait for an avian flu pandemic or SARS pandemic to take the title.
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Posted By: billd3
Date Posted: 28 May 2013 at 2:59pm
 Keeping in mind that although a forum may state "8,808 members", many of those will be those who have come and gone, joined to look around, then lost interest, those who got mad, took their toys and went home, spammers who signed up years ago and have not actually posted (yeah, I need to clean-up a bit and remove some members), but still for a forum like ours that relates 100% to an orphan car company that was absorbed and dismantled by Chrysler Corp decades ago, and whose last car ran off the assembly line in 1988 to have thousands of members - it's a big thing for us. It also boggles my mind that Bruce has kept this forum software safe/secure, and relatively fast, too. It just plain works. The hosting is excellent, too. It's so rare to not be able to access our forum, I almost freak out if it does happen! If you run a forum, and work with a SQL back end, this is where you need to host. I've had my fill of "cheap" or free - and when I compare costs to what I get - benefits, the cheap isn't all that cheap. Some of the others also allow "anything and everything that's not blatantly illegal" on their servers, and I refuse to support such hosts. I really really like this forum software and will be like a lost puppy if they ever stop development - like a man with no country or home, I shudder to think of having to step backwards to anything else. And I'm considering moving my own personal sites to this hosting as well - once I compare costs, which I suspect will be nearly a wash. My son works for one of the largest media companies in the states - they constantly have "security issues" on their servers and sites. I was appalled. Last time I notified him of some bad ads and redirects on one of their sites, he passed the info up the chain of command and was told "yeah, we know, we fight this a lot" and I'm thinking to myself - stop fighting it a start PREVENTING it. Anyway, fun stats - to see how many posts different sites like us have. ------------- BillD http://theamcpages.com http://theamcforum.com |
Posted By: RadioActiveLamb
Date Posted: 28 May 2013 at 9:13pm
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Interesting Albert. My numbers are very similar to yours: Our users have posted 179,018 Posts in 20,552 Topics in 23 Forum(s) We have 4,495 Forum Members |
Posted By: ionamartin123
Date Posted: 11 June 2013 at 7:14pm
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billd3, that's really a huge number.. wondering what would be the highest |
Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 11 June 2013 at 10:27pm
One of my websites is currently:
Mine has been purged of old posts / members over the years when I've been forced to save space in the database. I would love to hear what the database sizes are in relation to these stats though, I always find those more interesting. ------------- S2H.co.uk - http://www.s2h.co.uk/wwf/" rel="nofollow - WebWiz Mods and Skins For support on my mods + skins, please use http://www.s2h.co.uk/forum/" rel="nofollow - my forum . |
Our users have posted 251,078 Posts in 21,871 Topics in 68 Forum(s)
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 June 2013 at 9:57am
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If you are using 'Text' datatype for the tblThread.Message field then you will typically use around 650MB for each 500,000 posts. If you are using 'nText' datatype for the tblThread.Message field then you will typically use around 1GB for each 500,000 posts. Apart from Private Messages the rest of the data stored uses very little space at all. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: russnj2
Date Posted: 14 June 2013 at 4:42pm
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Our users have posted 256,393 Posts in 27,754 Topics in 86 Forum(s) We have 5,181 Forum Members 8 Years running! |
Posted By: alexli
Date Posted: 25 June 2013 at 3:10am
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Our users have posted 627,630 Posts in 47,732 Topics in 22 Forum(s) Last Post; Today at 9:34pm By http://mytabletennis.net/forum/member_pro.asp?PF=26391 - chop4ever We have 24,454 Forum Members Now my database is 1.2GB (ver9.68, after shrink). There is a problem when I tried to upgrade it to ver10.15. Is it because the database is too big? Anyone has the same problem when the database is too big? Following is the error message that I have got:
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 25 June 2013 at 12:32pm
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