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Rocke_T_Sinetist

Seems an odd statistic, but we have 5000 more registered users than posted topics. That's topic headings, not individual frames.

Statistics don't make much sense unless you know how they are derived. Literally countless spam posts have been deleted, so that reduces the topic count. As many as 10 spammers register for every 1 who manages to get through the verification and post. And since spammers/spambots are 99% hit and run, there's no point in deleting their membership status and they continue to add up.

Here's something remarkable. The whole IHD database, all the members, all the posts, occupies less than 60MB on a server. That's something like 1/1000th of one SMALL consumer harddrive.
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hotrodlincoln · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject: only 60MB???

I am TOTALLY impressed with the compactness of the database. What is being used again: MySQL, PostGreSQL, or something else? Hell, if this site was using MS Access it would probably be over 300MB and would crash all the time because it's not designed for more than 3 users querying it at the same time.

FallenAngel · Super Hater Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Posts: 1492

PHPBB operates with SQL backbone.

Rocke_T_Sinetist · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:28 am Post subject:

And considering the uptime, it's NOT running on Windows Server. There's just nothing quite like Microshaft slothware. (Thank gawd.)
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hotrodlincoln · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:47 pm Post subject:

diashto · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:00 pm Post subject:

hotrodlincoln · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject:

diashto · Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:01 am Post subject:

It really depends on how the server is set up.. PostgreSQL requires some tweaking of the databases and such to get working, MySQL works right out of the box, so most admins use MySQL if it's available.

http://www.phpbb.com/support/documents.php?mode=install#require

I know the couple that i have installed on various domains i administer to use MySQL, because my webserver has free unlimited MySQL databases.