Delete Old Topics?
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Topic: Delete Old Topics?
Posted By: ap33
Subject: Delete Old Topics?
Date Posted: 03 March 2003 at 5:16pm
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I have been experienceing some problems with my message board taking a long time to display and sometimes "timing out". Is this a problem with over usage (too many people at a time) or is it due to the fact that my database is huge? I have over 18,000 total posts in my database (mostly one forum). Do I need to delete those old topics to make things run more smoothly? Or is something else the root of the problem? Thanks |
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Posted By: boyohboy
Date Posted: 03 March 2003 at 5:33pm
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that reminds me of a question I intended to ask but forgot Does v7 have a feature that you could archive or delete any post dated to xx/xx/xxxx and older? Hosting space is valuable, you know. :)
I remember other forums have them called "pruning" |
Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 03 March 2003 at 5:38pm
v7 does have a feature to delete old topics. And it has a feature to delete old PMs  ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 04 March 2003 at 4:32am
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Version 6 also has a feature to delete old topics as well. If you are using SQL server as a database then 18,000 posts is no problem. If you are using Access 18,000 posts would be around a 15Mb database which is a hell of allot for a flat file bassed database system and allot to load into memory for a busy web server, so deleting old topics would be a good idea. ------------- 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: boyohboy
Date Posted: 04 March 2003 at 12:35pm
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wow 18,000 posts would only accumulate to 15MB. That's sweet. ------------- Visit my community website @ http://www.everythingviet.com - EverythingVIET.com |
Posted By: ap33
Date Posted: 04 March 2003 at 2:36pm
| thanks borg |