How big is the UKSB website?

[David Lowery]

I’m going for 10-15 GB 😕

Dave

[Robert Lambie]

😮 You do know that a FULL length high quality DVD film is only about 4 gigabytes?

[Lynn Normington]

being as I don’t know a gigabite from a megabite………… 🙄

Lynn

[Nick Minall]

I’m going for 1 – 5 GB

Nick.

[Phill Fenton]

1/ 200- 600mb
2/ 600- 900mb
3/ 1-5 gb

But I reckon most likely 1-5 gb

Do I get a prize 😛

[Nick Minall]

wrong one sorry

[David Rowland]

I have gone a little higher then most and before anyone asks, I do not know!

However, as rob stated this will be server 1 but there is in-fact 3 servers employed to run this site. :lol1: :lol1:

[Robert Lambie]

quote Phill:

1/ 200- 600mb
2/ 600- 900mb
3/ 1-5 gb

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
i meant three almost on the nose guesses :lol1: :lol1:

Lynn… im probably slightly out here and there but will give you an idea.

A floppy disk = 1.3megabytes
A zip disk = 100 megabytes = approx 100 floppy disks
A Compact Disk CD = 750 megabytes = about 7 zip disks
a DVD = 5 gigabytes = about 6.5 CD’s

hope that is correct’ish 🙄 :lol1:

[Garrie]

Kinda correct

1,024 Byte = 1 Kilobyte (KB)
1,024 Kilobyte (KB) = 1 Megabyte (MB)
1,073,741,824 Bytes = 1 Gigabyte (GB)

HD Floppy = 1.44MB
Zip = Various sizes available but 100MB is equal to around 70ish Floppies
CD = 650MB or 700MB
DVD = 4.7GB

I’m guess as its all database run, site is around the 1.5 GB mark

[Robert Lambie]

can you scroll up and use the votes bit at the top too garrie?

cheers 😀

[Garrie]

quote Robert Lambie:

can you scroll up and use the votes bit at the top too garrie?

cheers 😀

Can I? – Yeah 😉

[Robert Lambie]

"everyone is wrong" :lol1:

in actual fact, the combined file total of "UKSB Server 1" = 18.4 Gigabytes
which does NOT include our database or video files.

i regularly back the site up but as i have just bought a new hard drive to back the site onto i thought ide run a "from scratch" site backup… took nearly 2 full days of downloading 😕 😮 :lol1:

[David Rowland]

LOL 😛 hmm… i clicked the next close option… rob how are you actually finding this out ?

Rob, Can you go Folder / properties and write the actual "Size" and the "Size on Disk" values which are in Bytes please?

Just want to be certain 😀

[Marcella Ross]

😮 I had gone for 5 – 10 GB!!!!

[Shane Drew]

I went for 15+. When do we find out the answer (?) Is there a prize for this? 😛

[Shane Drew]

quote Robert Lambie:

in actual fact, the combined file total of “UKSB Server 1” = 18.4 Gigabytes
which does NOT include our database or video files

😳 oopps… should have read the posts first 😳

[Robert Lambie]

quote Dave Rowland:

LOL 😛 hmm… i clicked the next close option… rob how are you actually finding this out ?

Rob, Can you go Folder / properties and write the actual “Size” and the “Size on Disk” values which are in Bytes please?

Just want to be certain 😀

im daft dave, but not daft enough to get the size wrong when it tells me i had 98. something gigabytes available (partitioned drive) with 18.4 gig used etc etc left… it also gives me it in bytes or whatever… which is something like 18,493,000,000 i dont have it connected to my comp just now but i can send you screen shots and more should you need more proof :lol1:
i think the fact it has taken two days and nights to download the whole thing should tell you ive not added some zeros. :lol1: :lol1: (i have 8meg broadband)

ill be honest, i reckoned about 3gig… i have never taken any notice of file size… it was purely the time it took to download the lot in one go that kept me checking and thinking "when the hell is this going to stop?", as i wanted to get some stuff uploaded onto the servers for demos the past couple of days. 🙄

[Nick Minall]

18.4 Gigabytes… that’s a lot of posts 😮

[John Singh]

That’s pretty good cos the Canadian Log & Fencing Company have just a few more posts than that

[Marcella Ross]

quote John Singh:

That’s pretty good cos the Canadian Log & Fencing Company have just a few more posts than that

…………..John do you have a joke reference book at home? 😉

[George Elsmore]

I bought my wife a new bag and belt for valentines day the vaccum cleaners working a treat now!!

back Friday see ya’s

[David Lowery]

quote George Elsmore:

back Friday see ya’s

Is she sending you to Coventry :lol1:

[David Rowland]

quote Nick Minall:

18.4 Gigabytes… that’s a lot of posts 😮

its not! posts wont be included Nick

[Andy Gorman]

18 Gig? 17 of those are John Singh’s bloody jokes!

I can just imagine Rob, sat there with a pile of floppies like the leaning tower of Pisa……disk 1 of 12857……

[Robert Lambie]

andy… :lol1: :lol1:

quote Dave Rowland:

quote Nick Minall:

18.4 Gigabytes… that’s a lot of posts 😮

its not! posts wont be included Nick

daves right, the 18.4 gig does NOT include the actual "posts database or the videos" 😮

[Nick Minall]

quote Dave Rowland:

quote Nick Minall:

18.4 Gigabytes… that’s a lot of posts 😮

its not! posts wont be included Nick

Why is it so big then?

[Robert Lambie]

BEATS ME! 😳 :lol1:

ide guess its due to many things….

Site structure "files"
File Swapping "files" forum
Gallery Images "files" Forum
Graphic Help "files" forum
Countless Image "files" in Picture Tutorials Forum
Images "files" in Signextra Pages
Homepage images "files"

UKSB has Thousands upon thousands of pages… most consisting of images files of some description.
unlike other sign sites that penny pinch with tiny image file allowance for just about anything… UKSB actually tries to enforce that our upload facilities are used to prevent back page information becoming useless due to broken external image links and the like.

the size of the site is huge, but when you take all these files being viewed and downloaded by our MONTHLY traffic count of around 200 thousand unique visits, our dedicated servers really do take a pounding.
"UKSB Server 1" gets an everage of 3/4 of a million pages viewed each month thats a hell of allot of bandwidth i can tell you. 😀

[Jason Xuereb]

Rob isnt the site dynamic? Meaning the PHP scripts retrieve data from the database?

Also is your server linux based or windows?

If its linux when you make your back up make sure to compress your backup file before downloading it will save you tones of bandwith.

Does the 18gb include the operating system? Don’t forget if the 18gb is the disk usuage it includes the operating system and the database. The database are stored in files on the partion.

[David Rowland]

i thought he might be quoting a figure off the control panel… which would mean operating systems etc. Another thing in my experience is log files, these can get quite big.

I suspect it’s Rob’s secret goat porn collection that got downloaded. :lol1: 😉

[Marcella Ross]

quote Dave Rowland:

I suspect it’s Rob’s secret goat porn collection that got downloaded. :lol1: 😉

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: very good Dave. Thats one you’ve pulled back on him! 😉

[Peter Mindham]

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: very good Dave. Thats one you’ve pulled back on him! :wink:[/quote]

😮 😮 😮 😮

Peter

[Marcella Ross]

:shutup: oops ……….. that didn’t quite come across as I’d intended! :lol1:

[George Elsmore]

yeah right!!!!

[Marcella Ross]

George ………… do you really think that I could possibly think at such a low level! 😉

[George Elsmore]

:yes1:

[David Rowland]

Low-level, ideal for Rob and the goat!

[Robert Lambie]

jason,
jason the mian (server 1) for the site is on a managed dedicated server so i dont think i have access to the operating system on the server to be able to download anything else other than site structure and files.
im dumb to all this mate, so if that sounds naive, its because i do not know :lol1: ide have to ask my web guy…

the dedicated video (server 2) is a different setup though… but as i said, i havent included this in the total file size.

dave…
im just quoting from what i have downloaded with ftp software onto a fresh hard drive on my comp mate.

As for my goat porn? Dont you like h0rny women mate? 😉

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[Phill Fenton]

I always thought you were more of a sheep man myself Rob 😕

[David Rowland]

so much for storage… plenty of RAMMMM!

[Marcella Ross]

:lol1: :lol1: very good Dave !

[Robert Lambie]

quote Dave Rowland:

so much for storage… plenty of RAMMMM!

so your a bit of a "ram bam, thank you mam" type guy dave?
no wonder our poor john had trouble sitting on the way home from signuk. 😉

you selfish lover you…. 😉

[David Rowland]

john has just got married peeps… leave him alone

[Robert Lambie]

look Dave, just because your therapist has told you that… doesn’t mean we cant have a bit of a laugh. 😉 :lol1: :lol1:

ok ok…. ill ease off, but you started it 😉 😛

.

[David Rowland]

i always read ‘therapist’ as ‘the rapist’.

[Robert Lambie]

quote Dave Rowland:

i always read ‘therapist’ as ‘the rapist’.

and probably why you see the therapist in the first place mate… 😉 :lol1: :lol1: