Website Maintenance Update

Strother Scott on Wednesday October 3, 2007 05:52PM

This may interest some of you. About 2 weeks ago, the day I got back from Canada, the web site broke and would not allow on-line registrations because the hard disk was full. It was fixed promptly, like in a day, but more cleanup has now been done.

The hard disk is 73GB, so I was amazed it could be full. A couple of months ago, BM deleted a Qmail log file which recorded the time stamps and other data of all the email that comes and goes from the web site - which as you may know is about 1% real email using our mailing lists and 99% spam. The log file was 4-5GB recording about 4 years data, none of which is needed.

The second thing that was found was 7GB of "bounce mail to the postmaster email user on FBYC" now all deleted.

Finally, over the years we have saved old copies of all the web site data, they found about 4 copies of www.fbyc.net and 3 copies of www.royalorchard.com and the old ones have now been deleted.

The final report from last night was:

The disk space is divided now as follows:
Total space: 73Gb
Used: 40Gb
Free: 30Gb

Zope instances consume:
FBYC: 9.2Gb
Rolc: 5.5Gb

I'd say that there're plenty of free space on the server now. Especially if I'll remove all these old 2002-2004 copies that I've backed up (they take another 13Gb).

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