Re: Please avoid excessive quoting
Every day, I backup the entire UP forum. I store the backups alternately on the server running the forum and on another computer with mirrored RAID drives. For the moment, I don't have to pay to use those computers.
All storage and hosting costs are normally a matter of data storage size requirements and bandwidth. As the forum grows, both will increase. Both also increase more rapidly due to excessive post quoting.
In the past three months, the size of the backup (which reflects the size of the forum posts) has gone from 350KB to 4000KB. In other words, in three months, the size increased by ten times.
Judging from Nexus, $2500 a year will currently support a board of 1000 members. But money has a way of corrupting everything it touches, which has me concerned. I would like to avoid the road to perdition as much as I can.