Forum hosting some questions

[fanatic]

Can anybody please help me in the following question:

Suppose you have a forum hosted on some webserver.

Consider these are your web hosting details:
1.) Webserver space : 100 MB
2.) Bandwidth : 1 GB
3.) Discussion board software : phpbb

Consider that your forum has become very famous and you are falling short of webspace.

What would you do to keep your forum up and running?

 

[tuxfan]

1. Buy some more web-space
2. Shift to a host that gives more space in same price
3. Delete older threads
4. Delete non-active users
5. Look for someone who is willing to give space in return of some revenue

BTW, your forum has only 1 registered user which means you. Is this an attempt to advertise it?

 

[fanatic]

Nah man no advertising.
Learning Ecommerce and stuff.
So just learning How all the internet stuff works .. how to host forum and stuff

Yeah for now I am alone registered to my own forum lol

 

[tuxfan]

In phpBB there are some settings. Don't remember them exactly. That will let you automatically delete post that are older than a particular date, etc. Just go thru the admin panel.

 

[iMav]

that is called as forum pruning

 

[fanatic]

consider this

i have a host called .. website1/forum

now i want to change my host as i m falling short of space or for any other reason

say website2/forum

but i dont want to delete any post .. i want to keep the same users, same settings etc

so what should i do??

 

[tuxfan]

You can transfer the MySQL database. Import it.