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curiousity
January 18th, 2001, 15:40
Hi,

I have an account at F2S.com and have set up a phpBB board there. Now my question is: since they allow 5MB after I have signed up for php/MySQL (that is what I heard from the people here at the forum, I did not even know this at first), does that 5MB goes into all the data that my users post on the message/bulletin board? What happens if I have a lot of posts....will this surpass the 5MB limit?

Thank you for your reply.
syanet
January 18th, 2001, 16:22
An active board will surpass 5MB very fast. Just pay for a host.
curiousity
January 18th, 2001, 16:31
Then should my other alternative is to use ezboard? I don't really like that one so much because it has a lot of banners. Oh, I don't even know how big storage is allowed. Does anyone know? I think it is unlimited but I am not sure. Anyway, I would rather find found all about free web hosting with NO banner ads with php/mysql to have my phpbb board before I go for paying host.
Nick
January 18th, 2001, 17:38
Use a board that doesn't require a DB backend, eg- ikonboard.
BiteTheBugByte
January 18th, 2001, 17:53
I cannot agree with Nick ;)

I´ve installed the Ikonboard on F2S and it eats your free megs there very fast....okay it´s written in Perl and doesn´t need a DB but even in the readme.txt it says that you should have AT LEAST 20 MB of free space just for the board ...

Maybe you should test http://www.elitecities.com ,
they offer 125 MB disk space, have no ads and they´ll install you a cgi-bin on request.

Or look at my other thread according to FWP´s.....:)

So far

FraggedByte
curiousity
January 18th, 2001, 19:16
Hello,

I went back to the site phpbb.com and it is not there! Does anyone here uses their free board and now what happens to that site? Has it been down for awhile? I have not check out that site for awhile.

I have an account at elitecities.com but this is what I saw:
Cgi-Bin Installed on Request!(OPTION WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON)

So the option is not available yet, right?
niv
January 18th, 2001, 21:05
the 5MB is for the user data, whereas the actual virtual disk space you have (20MB) is used for the posts.