How big is boards.ie?

Hal Emmerich

Just curious really.....

What size is 11 years (or 13 years if going by first thread) of Boards.ie backed up on a server? In Gigabytes/terabytes, is there a fiqure?

Details
Type Company
Number 319114
Name BOARDS.IE LIMITED
Address 3RD FLOOR
LATTIN HALL
GOLDEN LANE
DUBLIN 8
Registered 24/01/2000
Status Normal

Effective date: 24/01/2000
Last AR Date 30/09/2010
Next AR Date 30/09/2011
Last Accounts to Date 31/12/2009

Edit-->The first Link isin't working properly even though the address is right when you hover over it, anyway just put boards.ie in the Company search box.

Quazzie

I remember someone posting up before that it was really small as in double figures megabytes.

I never did follow up on that to find out if it was just a joke or not. Its hard to know because most of whats on here is text based, although hosting pictures on Boards has become more common so I'd imagine it'd be a lot higher.

Gordon

I remember back when we hit the 1gig limit, and that was years ago. I think the usertable (the table that stores usernames, passwords and emails I imagine) is over a gig.

Whoever said it was in the double figure megabyte range was wrong!

Rabies

No one should ever need more than 128k of storage

mike65

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Dunny

Bigger than yours.;):D

EKRIUQ

In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud.ie with the Irish domain registry.

Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards.ie, and was granted the domain.

Q.E.D

Conor

The database is roughly 28GB on disk.

The compressed backups are about 6.6GB.

Conor

And here is the growth in the volume of posts (measured in MB/month) since January 2000:

Overheal

Neato. Do you guys run SSD?

Spear

What went wrong in late 2006?

Conor

Overheal wrote: »

Neato. Do you guys run SSD?

Nope. The database machines use 15k RPM drives. The last time we bought database machines SSDs were silly money. They're still very, very expensive.

Conor

Spear wrote: »

What went wrong in late 2006?

It's before my time, so it's hard to know the exact reasons, but the uptime and speed wasn't exactly fantastic back then. Those factors have a huge impact on the growth of a site.

Conor

Oh and BTW the above graph is only for text. Attachments are not included.

Overheal

Spear wrote: »

What went wrong in late 2006?

I signed up. Probably scared some legitimate users away

Insect Overlord

Overheal wrote: »

I signed up. Probably scared some legitimate users away

Class of September 2006! o/

Spear

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Class of September 2006! o/

Can't be worse than class of September 2001....

The Muppet

Spear wrote: »

What went wrong in late 2006?

Mike65 went on Holidays.

phasers

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Class of September 2006! o/

noob

Hal Emmerich

How does Boards do financially? Is this a big No No of a question?

Zaph

To paraphrase Douglas Adams:

Boards is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to Boards.