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[Okiewan]

A few DRN tidbits.

There have been 8,702,018 views of the currently active posts on DRN.

There are currently 51,909 threads and 399,120 posts.

The DRN database is over 60 gigabytes in size?

DRN averages 215 new members per week.

5,500 new posts per week and

600 new Topics/Threads per week.

 

[Brian]

Incredible :eek: If there's 215 new members each week, how come you never see hardly any of them post? Anywho, thats a lot of traffic :worship:

 

[Okiewan]

Maybe they just prefer to read? Many take a while to finally post. Pretty common on forums.

 

[MONKEYMOUSE]

Lol first time I found this place I made a name and posted! Thats some intrestin' info there thoe

 

[Danman]

I lurked for about 6 months before I decided to post. I guess it just took me that long for someone to ask a question that I had an answer to :eek:

 

[IrishEKU]

Say it ain't so Dan! You where that shy?

LOL, J/K big guy.

 

[VintageDirt]

I to waited a while before posting. Actually I waited a year before joining.

I'm glad those initial posts of mine are long gone. Although. . .they may have been good for a few laughs.

 

[Cyrus]

Ya, im new to this forum but Im on different dirt bike forums too so im not shy.

 

[FritoBandito]

I have been on DRN for about 2 years, but I am careful about the questions I ask. I usually do a search to check the archives of the site. I don't want to get thrashed for asking something that has been rehashed many times over. I think that sometimes a very innocent question by a newer member gets handled wrong and scares them away.

 

[bsmith]

If only we could keep a certain few from posting :p

 

[smb_racing]

I've been posting for years now, although I don't think I've ever really contributed anything useful :silly: :confused:

 

[_SOLO_]

I was here under a different name that I don't remember for three or so months, but I never posted.

 

[WaltCMoto]

Question for ya Okie.
Do the old stored threads take up a lot of that 60 gig, and if so is the cost of saving them worth it? Or is the main expense of the site having the ability to have 200 users online at the same time? (is that where the band width comes in?)
I hope you dont take offense to these questions, and im not looking for any money numbers here. Its just I dont understand the ins and outs of the internet, or the hardware associated with it, and where the biggest expenses are.

 

[Okiewan]

Hard disk space is cheap (relatively speaking)... so as long as I keep the database optimized (so not to slow the forums down), there is nothing wrong with keeping all the info. The real costs of a site this size is the amount of data going in and out all day (we transfer roughly 100-110 gigs per month!)

 

[Green Horn]

Originally posted by Okiewan


The DRN database is over 60 gigabytes in size?

I think it was at 60 BYTES when I joined. :confused:

DRN averages 215 new members per week.

Pretty amazing since there wasn't even 215 members total when I first got here. :) Whoda thunk it!

 

[dirtybkr]

60 gigs? The Gemeni space craft had only 36K of hard memory and 2K of random .