Forum hosting some questions

7 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/forum-hosting-some-questions.32988/

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?

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?

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

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.

that is called as forum pruning

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??

You can transfer the MySQL database. Import it.