How large is the forum Database? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: obiwanjacobi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2018, 04:57:10 pm
content: Just curious, because a forum always gets added to and this being a pretty popular forum...Does anybody know? Dave? David? Mods? SysAdmins?

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2018, 06:51:18 pm
content: 1.21 Jiggabytes!

author: Wan Huang Luo
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2018, 06:54:35 pm
content: Are you also curious about bank account numbers?

author: metrologist
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2018, 07:14:57 pm
content: You could make an approximation using 1.6M posts, estimate that each post is about 25kB, and about 1/3 of posts have an image of 1M max size, and result in about 5.75GBWe should make this a contest and see who can get the closest

author: floobydust
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2018, 07:45:04 pm
content: Size doesn't matter, that's what she said. It's the quality of the forum, how the boat rocks that matters

author: timgiles
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2018, 08:42:29 pm
content: Well this forum is 'built like a brick dunny' so its 1's and 0's might weigh a bit more than the normal forum

author: HwAoRrDk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2018, 11:20:28 pm
content: I have a vague recollection that Dave - in a thread somewhere here about the site's web hosting (perhaps a discussion about SSL?) - mentioned that a backup dump of the forum database was several gigabytes. I don't remember the exact number mentioned, and too lazy to go find the thread now.

author: Red Squirrel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2018, 02:32:45 am
content: I have a SMF forum in my dev environment (I need to get off my butt and finish that project and actually release to public - been procrastinating for years) and there are 140k posts. I basically merged 4 of my forums together as I want to convert to just one forum.The size of mine is 92.8MB.This is an extremely crude calculation since it's not even taking into account everything or different length of posts, but for fun...92.8MB / 140k = 0.000662857MB per postSo this forum has 1,606,270 posts, so 1,606,270 x 0.000662857 = 1064MB, or a bit over 1GB.Based on that I'm going to guess it's probably closer to 1.5GB as the user table, logs etc is going to use more space that I'm not even accounting for in my calculations.

author: rstofer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2018, 02:55:57 am
content: But it's some modest number of gigabytes, not multiple terabytes. Allocate 100 GB and call it a day. Storage is cheap!

author: Red Squirrel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2018, 05:00:43 am
content: Oh definitely I doubt it's in the TB range for database only. Now if we want to account for attachments and such then that's a whole other ball game I imagine on a forum this size it could hit a couple TB.

author: obiwanjacobi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2018, 09:24:39 am
content: I would count attachments as part of the forum also...Couple of GB's for the text sounds plausible.

author: GeorgeOfTheJungle
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2018, 09:43:29 am
content: Quote from: Red Squirrel on December 01, 2018, 02:32:45 amA smidge over two million I would say, look:

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 02, 2018, 10:22:49 am
content: I don't have easy access to the database sever any more, so I'm not sure.It's not huge, several GB for the php database.The attachments are part of the web server files, not the database.