If everyone here do it, Fred's monthly bill will grow up.techjunkie wrote: The couple of 100 megs I'm going to DL from the forum is nothing
In business there are a simple rule: who pays the bill, decide.
Its up to Fred allow or not this thing.
this probably could be done - database exported, userinfo, private stuff etc ripped out, zipped up (winzip 9 with max compression?, or better compression engine - perhaps pb's packer functions (im working on a prog to do this - packer funcs)) and then put up on a different site (to save this one's bandwidth) and users at home who have apache and phpbb could just import it to their phpbbFred wrote:We won't allow this, for obvious reasons. The forum itself in SQL text format is 400 MB, i expect to be more than 1 GB when formatted in HTML, which will be an huge charge for the server if everyone does that (and a lot of bandwidth). I'm ready to propose a dump for offline browsing (without the users infos/md5 passwords of course), but i don't know how it will be read.