DUE TO OUR RAPID GROWTH WE CAN NOT KEEP BACKUPS OF CONTENT

[AB-Rob]

Due to our rapid growth of gigs and gigs per day its impossible to keep backups of member related areas.

Please keep a backup of your member areas in case our raid5 systems decide to fail.

The content we provide *is* backed up.

We do keep backups of Gallery Servers/Preview areas.

Thanks

[Movie Guy]

that's actually pretty good news. that means AB is growing substantially...hopefully with good sites. =)

[AB-Rob]

well its current sites that upload a FUCKLOAD :)

we have to move so many sites a day its not funny lol

and we ARE cleaning alot of trashy sites and to top it off quality assurance only accepts "clean sites" and "high quality" sites.

[babydred]

I'm working on raising the quality level of my site :D ...with the help of some paid for content and site redesigning :wink: ...i'll work on TGP and SEO...after the rebuild is done. :roll:

[boob butler]

well its current sites that upload a FUCKLOAD :)

is the disk space limit based on number of members still in effect? i'm sure the server fills up pretty quickly with all those brand new sites that somehow start with 10 dvds, most of them downloaded off other AB sites :?

[trionicb]

Rob, since most sites are capped at 20Gigs I would think that would limit the growth somewhat. Than again if these sites get a lot of signs they will quickly get more HDD space.... oh well, I'm sure you get great prices on raid arrays and scsi hdds!!

[hajanoken]

who's capped at 20 gigs? you get additional space for every new member. if your site rocks then your limit should be 100+ gigs. not that anyone should ever go near that kind of limit content wise but thats what you get for having a productive site.

haj

[Movie Guy]

hehe. 2 terabytes is my limit. =P

[korny]

And what about backup of content server..
Should I download all my movies from my contentserver(folder) and burn to CD as backup??
Movies in this folder I copy use "copy to content server"
THx for answer

[darnpj]

No Korny,

You dont need to download your movies on your contentserver that is not what Rob is saying, what you should do is download your members area html and such that would be lost if there was a crash of that particular server. He means all of the stuff that makes up your pages in your members area! They are not gonna loose your movies on the contentserver and if it does happen then the contentserver folder is designed so that all you would have to do is to go back to the content box where your movies are at that you have picked b4 and just click the copy to content button and it may take a while BUT all of the movies and the contentserver folder will reappear. 8) Good Luck

[korny]

OK, THx for answer

[Tick]

dumb question but who doesn't back up their sites in the first place? lol. I mean in order to design your site you have to have it on your hard drive to begin with, unless someone's found a way to edit graphic and html files with photoshop and dreamweaver without ever having them on the drive and just working online lol.

[babydred]

The answer to that is working directly on the member servers...i tried it and my previews (to check the main areas) loaded too slow...so i ended up downloading my site to my comp.....no prob now!

Your site can be worked on without EVER putting it on your hard-drive...i did it for 2 months...i updated directly through my FTP link.

Now i have to make backups, seeing the AB is losing control of the servers....the last backup i had was 3 months old...thanks AB.

NO DIS.

[AB-Rob]

Yes please download all your content and keep it on your side burned to CD's for safe keeping.

We do NOT backup content servers any longer as each box consists of 2Terabytes and we grow at about 2-4 content boxes per month.

You do the math :)

[test]

Seems it's time for AB to stop adding sites then - or at least make space by deleting crappy ones ;)

[AB-Rob]

We already are deleting low quality sites.

But our new growth of sites that are higher quality outweight what we delete.

[babydred]

We already are deleting low quality sites.

But our new growth of sites that are higher quality outweight what we delete.

Which do i fall into...i am reconstructing my flagship site now....i want to be sure it is not all for naught (a waste of my time)...go to my WWW button....if you want to see the old look visit the prv pages...or just go deeper into the www button....but the prv pages have my old look from index to end.

Thanks

[AB-Rob]

Easier said then done.

you have no idea how much content is uploaded per day, keeping backup is impossible. Our site states 9200Gb of content, lets multiply that by 10+ and thats about right and thats only since 6 months ago.

Later in the new year we will create a system to automatically delete inactive sites but that isnt top priority ATM.