is this enough to begin my forum with?

[LD1]

disk space: 100 MB
bandwidth: 7500 MB


we're not importing/upgrading, but i expect 30 new members in the first day and about 3-5 new ones per day.


and is there any advantage to having a dedicated IP address?

[nuno]

disk space : no
bandwith : no

[LD1]

really? what would you consider to be the minimums in those categories?

[nuno]

1GB
20GB

[Joe]

Its really hard to say, my database is under 100 meg, i have ~2000 members, 5,000 threads and 45,000 posts. I also do under 10gig of transfer a month on the forum with gzip.

[eva2000]

Originally posted by LD1
disk space: 100 MB
bandwidth: 7500 MB


we're not importing/upgrading, but i expect 30 new members in the first day and about 3-5 new ones per day.


and is there any advantage to having a dedicated IP address?

to start off

250mb web space
150mb mysql database space
10gb/mo bandwidth

would be good

remember web space and mysql database space are different... you need to talk to your host regarding allowable mysql database space

[LuBi]

I got

4000mb storage
100gig transfer

Just if I use it he'll probably crash real good guy though!

[Jedito]

Originally posted by eva2000
to start off

250mb web space
150mb mysql database space
10gb/mo bandwidth

would be good

remember web space and mysql database space are different... you need to talk to your host regarding allowable mysql database space

150 MB mysql space to start???

I installed a forum with

Members: 9,066, Threads: 3,092, Posts: 39,745
And the database was of 44 MB.
I don't think that you need 150 MB Mysql space just to start.

[nuno]

oh
but do you allow attachments?do you allow avatars?

[Jedito]

Its not my forum
But I think she allow, but not sure either.

[eva2000]

Originally posted by Jedito


150 MB mysql space to start???

I installed a forum with

Members: 9,066, Threads: 3,092, Posts: 39,745
And the database was of 44 MB.
I don't think that you need 150 MB Mysql space just to start.

you have to remember if mysql database is corrupted and you have to run myisamchk repair options some options require double the amount of used mysql database space in order to proceed with repairing since they may need to recreate the data files during repair...

so 150mb of database space would be for around 75mb database...

so for your 44mb database you'd need at least 88 - 100 mb of space in order to plan for repairs of corrupted databases