Hi Guys,

I am not techy minded in the slightest so please bear with...

I maybe on the hunt for an alternative to Invisions servers as I have just run out of storage space and the next decent Invision package is going to double my costs.

This is what I have at the moment:-

1800MB diskspace
100GB bandwidth
Unlimited e-mail accounts
Unlimited FTP accounts
10 MySQL databases

and this is their alternative that would suffice for the next twelve months:-

3500Mb Storage Space
175Gb Data Transfer


At present I am using over 2100mb of storage, have in excess of 4500 members, that have contributed 400'000 posts and nearly 27'000 images in 18 months.

Is there anyway I can bulk resize the images to free up some MB and for that matter being able to auto compress/resize when a member uploads a pic?

Or do you have any really good alternative server services to Invision, that may save me some money and not give me problems, as my members cannot bear a laggy forum!

Hope I have made myself clear enough??? D'oh!!!

One thing that I often run is the Remove Orphaned attachment/Images (This usually kills 100MB/month on my site)

as far as image resizing not overly sure of one off the top of my head =()

[quote name='Robulosity2' date='19 May 2009 - 06:20 AM' timestamp='1242714059' post='1803364']
One thing that I often run is the Remove Orphaned attachment/Images (This usually kills 100MB/month on my site)

as far as image resizing not overly sure of one off the top of my head =()


Appreciate your help, now all I need to know is where I'll find out how to 'Remove Orphaned attachments' and I wouldn't mind knowing what this actually relates too (does it rid of members attachments)?

Sorry but I did say I was a noob :huh:

Found how to remove orphaned attachments though I get this error code

Fatal error: Class 'class_upload' not found in /home/pattayal/public_html/sources/action_admin/rebuild.php on line 1724

I'd reupload that file and try again, then again 1,800MB? Wow small lol, thats 3x less then our sites upload size, hell one of our other sites since the 1.3 days has 6GB of uploaded images.