Author:  Timothy_Smith  Posted:  Dec 11, 2010 06:25  Subject:  Stop purging data  Viewed:  402 times  Topic:  Suggestions  Status: Discarded Cancel Reply	BrickLink ID Card Timothy_Smith (1537) Location:  USA, Colorado Member Since Contact Type Status Jul 9, 2003 Seller   Store: Front Range Link No Longer Registered
My suggestion: stop purging data. It's the 21st century, mass storage is cheap. There's no at all reason to purge data ever.

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Re: Stop purging data - legomadsteve (72)

[...] You should purge your Avatar, it's terrible! (164 months ago, Dec 11, 2010, to Suggestions)

Re: Stop purging data - bb166186 (89)

[...] Data purging is not done to save storage cost. It is done to cut data access time. My guess is all bricklink visitors are served by only 1 processor. Boris. (164 months ago, Dec 11, 2010, to Suggestions)

Re: Stop purging data - Reki_Lobsheek (2464)

as nobody else seems to ask this, I will: to what purpose? I mean, I wouldn't mind if promise could be made it wouldn't slow down the website, but I'm just wondering why it would [...] (164 months ago, Dec 11, 2010, to Suggestions)

Re: Stop purging data - Rbobo (3014)

[...] At very least, if we could have data available for 13 months, that would help greatly come tax time. (164 months ago, Dec 11, 2010, to Suggestions)

Re: Stop purging data - eileenkeeney (1610)

[...] I strongly disagree. I am guessing that you do not have any (or much) experience with the real world of data, databases, data storage, etc ... (164 months ago, Dec 12, 2010, to Suggestions)

Re: Stop purging data - tomte (82012)

[...] No actually on the forum we could keep all messages. but I want orders that are cancelled actually to purge entirely forever! (162 months ago, Jan 30, 2011, to Suggestions)

Re: Stop purging data - BLUSER_228233 (114)

Agree. At least something as important as orders should not be purged as fast as now. Should be kept for a minimum of 12 months. A modern dual-core based linux server can handle [...] (162 months ago, Jan 30, 2011, to Suggestions)

19 Messages in this Thread:

 Msg 1 « - Timothy_Smith (1537) 164 months ago Dec 11, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 2 - legomadsteve (72) 164 months ago Dec 11, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 3 - redbeardlegoman (83) 164 months ago Dec 11, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 4 - JoeMomma (1214) 164 months ago Dec 11, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 5 - bb166186 (89) 164 months ago Dec 11, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 6 - Timothy_Smith (1537) 164 months ago Dec 11, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 7 - Locutis (69) 164 months ago Dec 11, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 8 - AggieSava (992) 164 months ago Dec 11, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 9 - Locutis (69) 164 months ago Dec 11, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 10 - Locutis (69) 164 months ago Dec 11, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 11 - Reki_Lobsheek (2464) 164 months ago Dec 11, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 12 - Locutis (69) 164 months ago Dec 11, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 13 - matthewcrandall (83) 164 months ago Dec 11, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 14 - Brickwilbo (1534) 164 months ago Dec 11, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 15 - Rbobo (3014) 164 months ago Dec 11, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 16 - wahiggin (2863) 164 months ago Dec 11, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 17 - eileenkeeney (1610) 164 months ago Dec 12, 2010 to Suggestions
 Msg 18 - tomte (82012) 162 months ago Jan 30, 2011 to Suggestions
 Msg 19 - BLUSER_228233 (114) 162 months ago Jan 30, 2011 to Suggestions