The Issue with Attachments

I've been thinking about what I wanted to do about the attachments to save space (especially since we're currently limited to 50GB of space on this server). I could either just fork out the extra 30 dollars a month to gain an additional 50GB of space for our server or I can start deleting older threads or attachments from the concert hall. I like the 2nd idea a bit better because if we can manage off of 50GB for awhile it would save me an additional 30 dollars a month. I would like to up our server space eventually as vgmdb grows but for now I think we could live off the 50GB for at least a year or two.

Right now GFF's attachments alone currently take up about 21GB of our total server space, and I bet a majority of those are attachments that are from 6+ month old posts in concert hall that aren't even being read anymore. If we cleared out attachments in concert hall that are 6+ months old it would probably free up a huge amount of space. Bandwidth being consumed to download these attachments doesn't do much damage at all. We have a 3000GB monthly bandwidth limit here and in the past with LayeredTech that was 1,600. And we never had any overage fees.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I really don't mind going the delete attachments in there after 3-6 months method I mentioned in my post. It wouldn't be that hard to do and the unused old attachments wouldn't be taking up space anymore. I don't want to be the bad guy and say you can't share music sheets anymore. I don't mind it at all. The only thing I don't like is all the space it's taking up and it's really my fault for not saying anything before it grew to the size it did.

How ya doing, buddy?

I'm gonna go the purge all attachments over 4 months old route and see if that makes things better (which it should) and then do it regularly every month or two. This will pretty much eliminate the issue of them taking up so much space. You guys can still post requests as attachments. I don't care. Just remember that they won't exist anymore after 4 months.

I give it a week before I fall through with it but if you guys need more time to go back and download the rarer sheet musics let me know. If you'd like a FTP subforum to share a huge bulk of them all at once I can create one for you.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

That works as long as your university doesn't freak out over you hosting an FTP. But based off how much these attachments get downloaded you probably wouldn't use up enough bandwidth for them to throw a fit.

Here is a guide on how to set one up if you wanna give it a shot:

http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/be...-tutorial.html

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Did you guys need more time? If not I'm deleting the older attachments later tonight.

I was speaking idiomatically.