Forum Storage + Bandwidth

Charlie J

Charlie J

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Hey all,

I’m wondering how much storage your forum takes up, as I’m looking to buy a new web machine for an upcoming project.

Roughly:
  • How much storage does your site use?
  • How much bandwidth is used monthly?
  • How many members / threads / messages?
I’m sure this thread will also help others in my position, as I’d prefer to not have to upgrade often.

Thanks in advance,
Charlie.
 
My board has 1.2M posts, 80K threads, 5.2K users. 3.5GB in Media Gallery, also a lot of post attachments. Total size is approximately 11.5GB, this includes the Database. My Bandwidth usage is approximately 1GB/day.
 
Thats a pretty open question. Small, new forums will not contain nearly as much data as a established photo based forum for example.
 
andy_mk3 said:
My board has 1.2M posts, 80K threads, 5.2K users. 3.5GB in Media Gallery, also a lot of post attachments. Total size is approximately 11.5GB, this includes the Database. My Bandwidth usage is approximately 1GB/day.
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Wow, thank you so much!

andybond said:
Thats a pretty open question. Small, new forums will not contain nearly as much data as a established photo based forum for example.
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I understand, just wasn’t sure.

Thanks both so far, I wanted to buy a web host that’ll last me like a year in advance. I see web hosts with like 10gb and wasn’t sure if that was too low or not.

I may also be hosting multiple sites (not all are XF though), so wanted to make sure I would only need to upgrade let’s say yearly.

Appreciated :)
 
You can split off the data to another host should you need at a later date. TBH though migration is dead easy as well!

10GB should serve you well for the first year ( of course depending on your subject matter )
 
andybond said:
You can split off the data to another host should you need at a later date. TBH though migration is dead easy as well!

10GB should serve you well for the first year ( of course depending on your subject matter )
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Thanks Andy, I think it would mainly be just a few Wordpress sites + XF forum. That’s true migration probably would be easy, but I’d want something affordable as a “startup”.

Any hosts you would recommend?

Thanks :)
 
Charlie J said:
U.K., but with cloudflare it helps cache it.
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Cloudflare will do your CDN , but it wont do masses for the caching.

I have used namecheap successfully in the early days of my forum. I now run on a VPS and run centminmod which is rapid to say the least.
 
andy_mk3 said:
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Charlie J said:
Thanks for linking, I’ll check them out. Just need something nice and affordable
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Having looked at the recommendation that @andy_mk3 has made - it seems great VFM on the VPS hosting. I added another GB of ram to make it nearly £16 / mo.

Its a bit easy to configure stuff like centminmod ( I can assist - gratis ) if needed.
 
andybond said:
Having looked at the recommendation that @andy_mk3 has made - it seems great VFM on the VPS hosting. I added another GB of ram to make it nearly £16 / mo.

Its a bit easy to configure stuff like centminmod ( I can assist - gratis ) if needed.
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Thank you both, what’s centiminmod then?

Currently my bills are around £12 a month from Namecheap + £9 a month for emails.
 
Charlie J said:
what’s centiminmod then?
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Its a mega fast super optimised stack provided by the very talented @eva2000.

Basically your current host namecheap is fine , but with the centminmod you just buy centos7 and then download, unpack and install the centminmod package and off you go.

Well , almost , but you get the gist.
 
andybond said:
Its a mega fast super optimised stack provided by the very talented @eva2000.

Basically your current host namecheap is fine , but with the centminmod you just buy centos7 and then download, unpack and install the centminmod package and off you go.

Well , almost , but you get the gist.
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It’s considered a new operating system? Sorry just slightly confused, but it does seem really cool.

I want something that isn’t too expensive (I mean £11 atm I think is pricy for a startup) that I can say pay for a year in advance. Then no worries there, and it’ll last me that period of time (or close enough anyway).
 
Geesh, £12 a month :o - I pay more than that daily :D

Two dedicated servers, (dbserver with 2 x 120GB SSD drives and file server with 2 x 512GB SSD drives)

This is the traffic in/out of the file server over the past month..

194517

and in/out of the database server over the same time period

194518
 
Charlie J said:
Thank you both, what’s centiminmod then?
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Probably better explained at https://centminmod.com/lemp.html and why Centmin Mod LEMP stack is capable of even more performance https://centminmod.com/perf/. Example of Xenforo 2.1 install on Centmin Mod LEMP stack https://community.centminmod.com/th...on-centmin-mod-123-09beta01-lemp-stack.16060/

What is Centmin Mod LEMP web stack?

A LEMP web stack is a set of open source Linux software which are together form the platform (web stack) where a web site's files (text, CSS files, javascript, web fonts, videos and images) and data can be served to a visitor. Every web site you visit on the internet is powered by and served from some form of web stack software bundled together. When your web browser connects to a web site, it is communicating with a web server requesting files hosted on the web server. This communication and transfer of data can either done in plain text unencrypted connections via HTTP or via secure encrypted connections via HTTPS (via SSL/TLS protocol).

Traditionally, such LEMP web stack's software is manually installed one by one and then configured for serving web site's files and data to visitors. This manual process can take hours to do from installation and then to configuring and optimising each component of the web stack.

Centmin Mod LEMP web stack auto installer takes the manual work out of the process and fully automates most of install, configuration, base optimisation and best recommended practices and settings for CentOS, Nginx, MariaDB MySQL, PHP, CSF Firewall security and other installed software. The whole process is done via the core centmin.sh shell based script which can install Centmin Mod via a curl one liner install method. Centmin Mod does not have a web gui panel but rather allows the admin/owner to manage their server(s) on the SSH command line with added convenience of a shell based menu for commonly performed tasks.
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FYI, Centmin Mod community forum is running Centmin Mod LEMP stack 123.09beta01 on Linode 8GB 4 CPU KVM VPS https://community.centminmod.com/
 
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andybond said:
No , not quite. The os is centOS7 that you ask the host to install on a bare bones VPS then you put the LEMP "stack" - the web bit on top. Its mega fast. I mean quite noticeably faster than anything I have used before fast.

Edited to add : https://centminmod.com/
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Ohh I understand now; thanks for clarifying Andy!

webbouk said:
Geesh, £12 a month :eek: - I pay more than that daily :D

Two dedicated servers, (dbserver with 2 x 120GB SSD drives and file server with 2 x 512GB SSD drives)

This is the traffic in/out of the file server over the past month..

View attachment 194517

and in/out of the database server over the same time period

View attachment 194518
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Damn :o so you must have a very large forum? Haha or large site.

eva2000 said:
Probably better explained at https://centminmod.com/lemp.html and why Centmin Mod LEMP stack is capable of even more performance https://centminmod.com/perf/. Example of Xenforo 2.1 install on Centmin Mod LEMP stack https://community.centminmod.com/th...on-centmin-mod-123-09beta01-lemp-stack.16060/
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Thanks Eva! I’ll check that out :) seems cool.
 
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