looking for web hosting, a little confused about disk space

[QueBert]

I am trying to throw together a site that will run off phpBB. I have been researching web hosting. And I was kind of surprised to see the first few places I was in contact with didn't give you much database space in contrast to how much quota you actually have. I always figured "1 GB of disk space" was just that. But 1 GB of space, with 200megs of DB is a totally different thing.

I have an account on 1and1 right now, it's free so I can't complain. But, they only give you 100 megs for your DB. And seeing how phpBB uses a DB then having 500 megs of space doesn't mean much to me. I haven't done much resesrch into how much space a decent sized "chat/dating/whatever" site takes up. But I imagine it could add up quickly. I am right to assume phpBB does everything within a database right?

anyone know a decent place for database hosting? I'm not trying to run Anandtech 2 or anything HUGE. but I'd like something that isn't super expensive and will give me a fair amount of Database space + full CGI/PHP access so I can mod up phpBB and run it. Also if anyone has some knowledge of these types of site, what is bandwidth usage like on a typical sized site. I want to have a extimate of what I should look for in terms of features and such.

thanks.

 

[minendo]

100mb is a decent sized database for phpBB.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: minendo
100mb is a decent sized database for phpBB.

wouldn't that fill up pretty quickly, I'm going to have a site where peoples profiles will have pictures. I would think if you had lets say 500 users, 100 megs would be tapped out pretty quickly no? This site is going to be less centered around the actual "fourms" and more around IM/PM & pictures.

The way I was thinking of setting it up was 250k quote per user for whatever they wanted in their gallery. I suck at math but 400 users using 100% would be 100 megs I think

 

[Paulson]

Yeah you'd have quite a huge forum on 100mb's of db for phpbb... I had a lot of posts on my phpbb forum before my server crashed and I was only up to about 1 or 2 mb's...

 

[JackDawkins]

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: minendo
100mb is a decent sized database for phpBB.

wouldn't that fill up pretty quickly, I'm going to have a site where peoples profiles will have pictures. I would think if you had lets say 500 users, 100 megs would be tapped out pretty quickly no? This site is going to be less centered around the actual "fourms" and more around IM/PM & pictures.

The way I was thinking of setting it up was 250k quote per user for whatever they wanted in their gallery. I suck at math but 400 users using 100% would be 100 megs I think

Keep in mind that pics and such don't get put into the database; that's part of your regular storage space if you are hosting their pics. The only portion of the pic that you would keep in the database is the filename itself, not the actual pic.

edit: 100 megs should be plenty of databse for you, way more than enough I would think unless you have some huge forum.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: JackDawkins

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: minendo
100mb is a decent sized database for phpBB.

wouldn't that fill up pretty quickly, I'm going to have a site where peoples profiles will have pictures. I would think if you had lets say 500 users, 100 megs would be tapped out pretty quickly no? This site is going to be less centered around the actual "fourms" and more around IM/PM & pictures.

The way I was thinking of setting it up was 250k quote per user for whatever they wanted in their gallery. I suck at math but 400 users using 100% would be 100 megs I think

Keep in mind that pics and such don't get put into the database; that's part of your regular storage space if you are hosting thier pics. The only portion of the pic that you would keep in the database is the filename itself, not the actual pic.

you know something, I was just wondering about that. AWH DAMN! if that's the case then 100 megs is a good amount of space. Thank you for bringing that up. 100 megs of text is a damn lot. Hummm you just saved me from looking for hosting that gives 500 megs DB space. I appericate it!

 

[HyTekJosh]

Most hosts have the MySQL DB disk space come out of the actual quota. That is how I do it.

 

[Nohr]

Here's the stats of my phpBB forum for reference. Avatars and such are not stored in the database.

Number of posts: 8503
Number of topics: 1182
Number of users: 292
Board started: 25 Mar 2003 11:15 pm
Database size: 12.00 MB

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: JackDawkins

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: minendo
100mb is a decent sized database for phpBB.

wouldn't that fill up pretty quickly, I'm going to have a site where peoples profiles will have pictures. I would think if you had lets say 500 users, 100 megs would be tapped out pretty quickly no? This site is going to be less centered around the actual "fourms" and more around IM/PM & pictures.

The way I was thinking of setting it up was 250k quote per user for whatever they wanted in their gallery. I suck at math but 400 users using 100% would be 100 megs I think

Keep in mind that pics and such don't get put into the database; that's part of your regular storage space if you are hosting their pics. The only portion of the pic that you would keep in the database is the filename itself, not the actual pic.

edit: 100 megs should be plenty of databse for you, way more than enough I would think unless you have some huge forum.

Correct.

For instance planethzl.com forums only use 51.64MB SQL disk usage.