Pruning Database.?

[BaRoN30s]

Hi looking for a way to prune back my database as ive just noticed from within my host its reached its limit of 114 MB & says "your database has now reached its limit & is write protected" :o

so what happens now.? is 114 MB big for a forums database..?

i dont have a very busy site & prob only get 2 dozen new posts per day

if i delete old posts will this bring it down.? or is there some other way

thanks for any help.

[Alex K.]

You may want to consider a different host. If they cap your database at that size, this problem will keep coming up periodically no matter what happens.

Yes, deleting old posts will lower the size, but that's pretty much it. You shouldn't have to do that in most cases.

[BaRoN30s]

thank you for the quick reply. :thumbsup:

i will contact my host asking them if this can be resolved by upping the size of the database & if not i will tell them i will be moving elsewhere..

is 114 MB big for a database..? like i say i dont have a very busy forums so cant see why its so big.. ?

[Alex K.]

114mb isn't very big at all for a moderately active community. At 20-30 posts per day, you'll easily hit it within a few years.