25K Now! Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 What's a rough estimate of how much data the content on BZP's forums is made up of? http://vimeo.com/198967785 BZPRPG Profiles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taria Pakari Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 (edited) B6 said in the Premier Membership thread that it was over 16GB as of June 2011, so I'd estimate that by now it'll probably be 20GB at least, 25 at most. Wait, that was bandwidth. Nevermind. Edited June 19, 2016 by Peridot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPenguin Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 (edited) What do you mean by data? Are you talking about just forum posts? Lines of code? Data downloaded by the web browser to visit every page? If it's data downloaded by the web browser, you can do a quick estimation. I visited 5 random full length forum pages (40 posts per page) and recorded the amount of data downloaded by my browser (Safari on OSX). 4.58 MB4.19 MB6.25 MB9.74 MB4.71 MB (Pretty big discrepancy there. The better way to do this would be to write a web crawler and record 100 or so web pages, but I'm not trying to be too scientific here. This is just for fun.) Averaging out those numbers, we get about 5.89 MB/page +/- 2.29 MB/page. On the front page of the forums, it says that BZP has ~1 070 927 posts. Since there are 40 posts/page, we can say that there are about 26 733 +/- 1 pages). Okay, 26 733 pages +/- 1 pages * 5.89 MB/page +/- 2.29 MB/page = 1574570 MB +/- 61218 MB = 157 GB +/- 61.2 GB (Wow that error propagation!) tl;dr It is unscientifically somewhere between 100 to 200 GB However, this number doesn't have any "practical" use other than just being for fun. If you're trying to find the size of the repo + db in BZP's servers, the number will be significantly smaller. This is because most of the images that caused these bloated forum pages are actually not hosted by BZP themselves. The remaining images (forum headers, proto bars) are only stored once in the server. I'm not sure how much of the forums content is hosted by IPB (do we even still use that lol), because I'm sure a large percentage of content is stored away by them. If you simply want to know the size of the DB that hosts everything, you should definitely ask b6 about that. Edited June 29, 2016 by iPenguin 6 Majhost sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeFlavouredLibertarian24 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Maybe the fact that over 390 people have answered my strawpoll shows that there's at least 390 bionicle fans(but that's most from tumblr, google plus, wikia, reddit) http://limeflavouredlibertarian24.tumblr.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
25K Now! Posted July 9, 2016 Author Share Posted July 9, 2016 That's pretty much all the info I was looking for, iPenguin, so thanks. Guess the question's answered then. http://vimeo.com/198967785 BZPRPG Profiles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Six Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 That's pretty much all the info I was looking for, iPenguin, so thanks. Guess the question's answered then.Glad to hear it. Thread closed. Bio of a BZP Admin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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