Currently we are on a 2 GB web space at OVH, in shared hosting, on a "mediaplan" account.
Today they launched something interesting... we can chose between (1) security or (2) space.

(1) : 5 backup copies of previous days, available all the time, can be useful if we overwrite/delete a file by accident, since I only make a local backup every two weeks.

(2) : no backup (was like that until today), but then they multiply the available space by... 10 !
So it would mean that we would have 20 GB of space rather than 2

That will be quite useful for 2007

Pour les francophones qui veulent des détails :
http://ovh.com/fr/items/securite_capacite.xml
http://ovh.com/fr/produits/mutualise.xml

And anoter nice info by the way: they will move to MySQL 4.1 (we have version 4.0 currently), so that will probably solve the sorting/search problems that we have currently with ö/ä/ü characters of German makes.

Et on peut pas avoir les deux ?
Sinon, fais comme tu le sens, c'est toi le webmaster!
Perso, je prendrais l'espace. Si l'hébergeur a toujours une copie...

Jusqu'à maintenant on avait aucun des deux Donc le jour où ça sera plein, le choix de l'espace sera probablement le meilleur en attendant d'avoir un serveur dédié au site.
Et de toute façon je fais une sauvegarde de la base de données toutes les semaines, et des images toutes les deux ou trois semaines.

I'd say go for the space and do manual backups.

By the way, I will soon have to do that switch: a little more than 300 MB remaining, more than 1600 MB used.
I think that I will do that in end of August or begininng of septembre. There will probably be a small time (i.e. 1 day) where I will have to prevent any change to the site, i.e. lock posting of new comments, and lock all admin links.

ok, btw I would like to ask, if it is for you bearable to sponsore the site by yourself.. I think in case you will need some money for the site, we should make a donation or something.

Actually the Google ads pay more than what the site costs, so currently IMCDb do not need any donation. But thanks for thinking to that
Some day I will have to move the site to a dedicated server (or semi-dedicated) when it will grow more, but even at that time I think that it will still be OK, as the number of visitors increase.

Ya, go with space. More space for my comments .

What I was mentionning is spaces for files (i.e. pictures).
The comments are stored in the database, which will be the next problem, as it currently is at 50% of its size and will maybe not be expandable so easily...

Oh,

I always wondered antp, or anyone else with antp's power, is it possible to have a page setup on vehicle and movie comments, similar to most forums includeing the IMCDb forums? It should help, I would think. Especially with pages with never ending discussion like the Scorpio page, and pages long in general like Maximum Overdrive.

Actually pages are already splitted in several views, like the "view all comments".
As you mentionned neverending discussions, I do not see what would be the use of that.
- scorpio page: I archived all useless posts, now the page loads fast and the old discussion is on a separate & splitted page.
- maximum overdrive: I should clean it too, it was not a normal page, as most of it contains comments about Rocker BJ
So as I said yesterday the only pages that cause problems are page that should not exist. There are lots of off-topic pages that do not have any problem, just because there is a normal discussion with normal people, rather than a SUV discussion with you.

to you too.
Btw, in the case you missed it, I did not delete any of your comments. They are still visible through the "see archived comments" link...

So F*cking what? They are visible in the useless area, where no one will bother to look. They are useless there.

They were already useless so I do not see what is the problem... (and you are off-topic again btw, this topic was about the hosting of the site, not about yourself)

And please not that you can be lucky that I am patient, if it was depending on other people, your comments would have been completely deleted

Why are you blaming me? You are offtopic too! You seem to forget how many times YOU are offtopic, like on the Merku page you were talking about a Citroen!

It was a discussion about cars modified for US-specs, like the Merkur

So that counts? What about SUV safety on SUV page? I suppose that doesn't count.