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theologyonline
Thu 8th Feb '01, 6:27pm
OK, so let me understand.

To use vBulletin board I need to get MySQL and PHP activated on my server correct?

My hosting company charges $4.95 per month for PHP and $9.95 per 10mb of MySQL.

I really love the features of vBulletin board although I want make sure I know what all I am getting into.
Mike Sullivan
Thu 8th Feb '01, 6:30pm
PHP 3.09 (which is old) and MySQL 3.22 (which is also very old) are required.

I'd recommend PHP4.x and MySQL 3.23.32.
JimF
Thu 8th Feb '01, 6:34pm
How much activity are you expecting on your board? 10MB isn't very much space...

-jim
Sharg
Thu 8th Feb '01, 6:36pm
I'd recommend PHP4.x and MySQL 3.32.32.

He meant 3.23.32 :)
theologyonline
Thu 8th Feb '01, 6:55pm
Generally how much MySQL server space will this board use?

Let's assume that my board has approx. 1800 users (maybe 250 active users).

And let's assume I keep around 40,000 posts total on all my forums before I prune them.

How much (aprox.) MySql server space am I gonna need?

Thank you so much for your help.
wandrer
Thu 8th Feb '01, 6:57pm
My hosting company charges $4.95 per month for PHP and $9.95 per 10mb of MySQL.

In this day and age, i'd switch to another host. You can easily find hosts that provide PHP and mySQL for free...
Sharg
Thu 8th Feb '01, 6:59pm
I would say 40 000 posts = 30 megs.
Mike Sullivan
Thu 8th Feb '01, 7:02pm
With approx 960 users, 4900 threads, and 57000 posts, my dump (via phpMyAdmin -- I edited it to dump to the server's hd :)) was ~53,000 kb.

I'm sure my dump is larger now because that was a few weeks ago plus 2.0 makes a larger dump.

I would definately switch hosts.
theologyonline
Thu 8th Feb '01, 7:05pm
I would definately switch hosts. Suggestions? Recommendations?
theologyonline
Fri 9th Feb '01, 2:06am
When you purchase vBulletin what version do you get?

Because I want the version that is running this board.
ender
Fri 9th Feb '01, 3:08am
I'm using JaguarPC (http://www.jaguarpc.com) which, heh, allows me unlimited mySQL space (within reasonable boundaries so not like 100 meg+) and the most updated mySQL and PHP. For like $10. So what you were saying it really expensive for hosts.

Currently the version is 1.1.5

2.0 is coming out within a few weeks I think.