by Doug Coulter » Thu Apr 17, 2014 5:18 pm
Well, my main worry is this. If I tell it to back up the site, yeah, it gets all the posts - but none of the pix, and by now, with my mere 3.5mbit download speed, those terabytes would take years to come down. So any upgrade we do to the basic stuff would want to be done really carefully, or perhaps we can talk the ISP (ipower) into backing up the pix separately so we can restore fully if there's an oops. I can get the rest of the db in an overnight download but losing those pix is pretty scary, since we use them a lot here. Guessing, but I think it would take a few large disk drives to even hold them all...
Our biggest issue is an apparent bug - we know not where - that when anyone is logged on as admin, it lets in random spambots (edit, registration does NOT have to be enabled for this to happen). Just during letting in people today - which took a couple hours of frantic cut/paste from a doc I made out of all the request emails in a format to make the cut/paste quick - we got 3, and I had to spend a bit of time wiping the unwanted bots and their posts out after. There's another bug, and I again know not where - it might even be the isp. Periodically the board goes "dark" - unavailable. I sign on as admin, and find the "make board available" setting unchecked, so I check it, and everything is good till next time. But often I'm away from a computer for a whole day and the site being down kinda upsets the other users...
Posting as just me, not as the forum owner. Everything I say is "in my opinion" and YMMV -- which should go for everyone without saying.