Forum off-line quite a lot in the last couple of days

[Bee]

The Forum has been off-line quite a lot in the last 2 days. Says SQL disc full etc

Bee

[Brandyboy]

Yes mine was on and off as well but nobody else reported it.

[freddo]

same here

[Carl]

I was aware of two periods when accessing the forum returned a SQL error disk full; "waiting for someone to free some space", this was on Thursday afternoon and again yesterday morning.

The host company were contacted on Thursday afternoon, although the issue seemed to have been resolved shortly afterwards, and that prior to them acknowledging my contact and advising a fix would be implemented that evening. I contacted the host company again yesterday morning when the issue resurfaced, and again the issue resolved itself prior to the host company acknowledging my contact and apologising for the inconvenience.

The forum has currently used 307mb disk space against our quota limit of 10,000mb, so the forum should not be experiencing a disk full error. To put the forum disk space used into context, Google Chrome on a PC takes up about 489mb.

As this forum is hosted on a shared server, I am not sure how disk space is allocated or free space released to meet demand of mulitple websites it hosts, so it may be possible that the disk full error could be triggered by another site but affect all sites including this.

[crummy]

Thanks Carl for the info...

[Brunski]

I was aware of two periods when accessing the forum returned a SQL error disk full; "waiting for someone to free some space", this was on Thursday afternoon and again yesterday morning.

The host company were contacted on Thursday afternoon, although the issue seemed to have been resolved shortly afterwards, and that prior to them acknowledging my contact and advising a fix would be implemented that evening. I contacted the host company again yesterday morning when the issue resurfaced, and again the issue resolved itself prior to the host company acknowledging my contact and apologising for the inconvenience.

The forum has currently used 307mb disk space against our quota limit of 10,000mb, so the forum should not be experiencing a disk full error. To put the forum disk space used into context, Google Chrome on a PC takes up about 489mb.

As this forum is hosted on a shared server, I am not sure how disk space is allocated or free space released to meet demand of mulitple websites it hosts, so it may be possible that the disk full error could be triggered by another site but affect all sites including this.

I can give some insight on this: on shared server hosting it usually as needed however it may be configured that databases can be only so big however who knows with the hosting just glad it was fixed.

Just a minor correction it is MB (MegaBytes used for disk space/bandwidth) or MiB (mebibyte) not mb (Megabits used by ISP's)