Is there any way to find out how big a website is?

[-Laser-]

Just curious really, as one forum i'm on has posts dating back donkey's years and i wanna know just how wasteful it is! tried googling but didn't come up with anything useful.

 

[miracleboy]

Aren't all websites the same size, 1024x768, or 1280x1024, etc? Depends on your screen resolution.

Sorry.

 

[hardc0re_tid]

i think he means file size

 

[PhilthyPhil]

Since the pages are dynamically generated the only way to know how 'big' a forum is would be to look at the database, which only the administrator(s) can do. I don't see why it's wasteful, unless its a really huge forum it won't be taking up much disk space.

 

[Al Vallario]

No.

 

[miracleboy]

i think he means file size

Yeah I got that bit, was a poor joke on my part.

 

[-Laser-]

lol, yeah i meant file size!

Since the pages are dynamically generated the only way to know how 'big' a forum is would be to look at the database, which only the administrator(s) can do. I don't see why it's wasteful, unless its a really huge forum it won't be taking up much disk space.

it's pretty big, it's just really cos the owner's saying it costs lots to run and so has introduced a subscription fee. I was just gonna make a nuisance of myself and say well if you deleted all this old crap that's taking up xxxGB it might be a bit cheaper!

 

[kaiowas]

The primary cost will be bandwidth rather than storage space. So the fact that the old posts are there won't really make any difference

 

[-Laser-]

hmmm, yeah i guess so, can't see it using a lot of bandwidth though, it's tiny compared to OCUK (it's not a competitor before anyone questions my loyalty ) so can't see why it would cost a lot to run. oh well, i trust the guy and it's worth the fee.