Machines Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 Hi people. It has come to our attention that we are close (no emergency yet though) to running out of disk space. The main reason for this is user attachments, we currently have 52500 attachments uploaded by members and using 40GB of disk space ! Whilst the quantity of attachments is not the issue, the size of them is. Quite often we see For Sale threads with several images attached that are over 2MB each and are just big blurry pics of something that level of detail is not required. 500Kb per image should more than sufficient for most images, however we are not imposing a limit at the moment. If you aren't sure how to make your image smaller, try resizing it in any imaging software you have or there are websites that can do this for you (e.g. [url="http://resizeimage.org/)"]http://resizeimage.org/)[/url]. We ask that [b]ALL[/b] users review the attachments they have, and see if they really need to be there. This can be done by going to the 'My Controls' section and 'Manage Your Attachments'. [b]If you have some from a For Sale thread for something you sold a year ago, does it need to be there now ?[/b] It would be preferable for the situation to be resolved this way rather than by forced deletion of the oldest/largest attachments as this could lead to missing images in live threads. Also, there are numerous sound files uploaded, one of them is 15MB alone ! It doesn't take many of those to start filling the server up, we ask that you transfer any large (<2MB) sound recordings to an externally hosted website (such as [url="http://www.soundcloud.com"]SoundCloud[/url]) as these are likely to be removed in the near future. If you have any questions then please ask here or send one of the mods a message ! Your co-operation is appreciated. Many thanks, Machines Quote
dannybuoy Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 I always use imageshack.us or similar for hosting images - you can upload multiple images, it can auto resize them and provide you with the necessary code to paste into the forum. Quote
ahpook Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 (edited) i've just seriously pruned my attachements...like a kind of techie topiary. Edited March 11, 2011 by ahpook Quote
Machines Posted March 11, 2011 Author Posted March 11, 2011 About 100MB has been cleared in an hour, nice work ! Now for that other 39.9GB... Quote
Buzz Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 40Gb and you're getting worried...I'd be asking your hosts why you've got such little HDD space considering it's cheap as chips these days. Quote
dannybuoy Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 Indeed. Even terabyte drives a dirt cheap nowadays. Quote
Brave Sir Robin Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 (edited) I'm under 4MB in total, and all that's left are pictures of pretty basses. Am I safe from the forum po-po? Also noticed Basschat is being pig-slow today. hmmm coincidence? Edited March 11, 2011 by Brave Sir Robin Quote
cheddatom Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 (edited) Just in case the relevant mod misses the other thread - I'm sure you can get a script to integrate into the forum which will automatically resize images to a maximum size. EDIT: I notice the forum is in php. I know imagemagick can be run using php. Edited March 11, 2011 by cheddatom Quote
Machines Posted March 11, 2011 Author Posted March 11, 2011 [quote name='Buzz' post='1158076' date='Mar 11 2011, 02:06 PM']40Gb and you're getting worried...I'd be asking your hosts why you've got such little HDD space considering it's cheap as chips these days.[/quote] We are looking at expanding it, in the short term this is the best solution. [quote name='Brave Sir Robin' post='1158117' date='Mar 11 2011, 02:42 PM']Also noticed Basschat is being pig-slow today. hmmm coincidence?[/quote] I have noticed a correlation between querying the attachment statistics and a slowdown, it seems to be quite CPU intensive. Just checked again and now about 400MB has been cleared. That's 1% of the total we have in attachments. Don't need them all clearing, just the old or excessively sized ones ! Quote
voxpop Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 Just cleared down some of my attachments.....should free a little space. Quote
phsycoandy Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 Does having ur pics on a public server like photobucket or the like mean you dont use up space here? Speak o wise people Quote
Stylon Pilson Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 [quote name='phsycoandy' post='1158207' date='Mar 11 2011, 03:44 PM']Does having ur pics on a public server like photobucket or the like mean you dont use up space here? Speak o wise people [/quote] Correct. S.P. Quote
Noisyjon Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 Just cleared out all the old pics I don'r need on here any more Quote
Marvin Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 (edited) I've cleared everything bar about 8 I think. But then again I didn't have much on here to start with EDIT: just checked I'm actually down to 4 Edited March 11, 2011 by Marvin Quote
icastle Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 [quote name='dannybuoy' post='1158101' date='Mar 11 2011, 02:30 PM']Indeed. Even terabyte drives a dirt cheap nowadays.[/quote] Server disk space isn't the same as PC disk space. Last time I added a terabyte of disk space to an HP EVA (last year) it cost somewhere in the region of £9K. Quote
tomb Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 maybe admins can delete "for sale" posts that have already been sold and that money and goods have already changed hands, i bet that would free up some good space. also, the file size cap is 25mb, i believe 10 to be more than enough Quote
Machines Posted March 11, 2011 Author Posted March 11, 2011 We're not intending to remove any posts - even old ones can be searched from on google (e.g. someone searches for 'wal for sale') and ends up here. Might not get the bass they want that day but are more likely to get sorted eventually ! Quote
tomb Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 file size cap then? and overall attachments? 100mb in attachments is an entire album in mp3.... Quote
chrismuzz Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 [quote name='Machines' post='1158618' date='Mar 11 2011, 08:39 PM']We're not intending to remove any posts - even old ones can be searched from on google (e.g. someone searches for 'wal for sale') and ends up here. Might not get the bass they want that day but are more likely to get sorted eventually ![/quote] This is exactly the kind of thing that brought me here! Quote
paul_5 Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 [quote name='chrismuzz' post='1158626' date='Mar 11 2011, 08:42 PM']This is exactly the kind of thing that brought me here! [/quote] Ditto. Just cleared out my '7.07MB' of photos, hope this helps... Quote
phsycoandy Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 [quote name='Stylon Pilson' post='1158237' date='Mar 11 2011, 04:06 PM']Correct. S.P.[/quote] I'm a complete novice on such matters, but if this is the case why not recommend folk use off site servers instead of the BC attachment thingy which I've never used Quote
Merton Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 I've halved my stored stuff, still embarrassingly high at around 20MB but from now on I'll stick everything on my band's site and link from there Quote
Marvin Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 I'm down to 230k . However, there are now about 40+ posts that will make absolutely no sense at all. What was that? No change there? You cheeky lot Quote
MythSte Posted March 12, 2011 Posted March 12, 2011 [quote name='Marvin' post='1158720' date='Mar 11 2011, 09:55 PM']I'm down to 230k . However, there are now about 40+ posts that will make absolutely no sense at all. What was that? No change there? You cheeky lot [/quote] I think you'd be surprised how many people host pictures on photobucket etc! That or I'll be surprised at how many people don't... Quote
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