I had quite the panic yesterday when I realized that my blog wasn’t working anymore. I couldn’t put up any new posts, and people were telling me that their comments weren’t showing up.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, it just turned out to be a problem with my database. When I started this blog in January 2008, the size allocation for my databases was 100MB. That figure seems so paltry now.<\/p>\n
I looked on-line and discovered that I’ve used up 150MB. At 50MB over quota, a hard limit had kicked in.<\/p>\n
So I called my service provider, and got some good news: In the intervening six and a half years, storage technology has advanced considerably. They told me to start a new database and transfer everything over. The allocation for these databases is now up to 1024MB — a cool gigabyte!<\/p>\n
Assuming I keep posting every day, at roughly the same rate of data usage, I now have enough space to burn through another 900MB before hitting a wall.<\/p>\n
That’s going to happen, by my calculations, in about thirty nine years from now. I hope that I’ll still be around to blog then, and that you’ll still be around to read what I have to say.<\/p>\n
But why take any chances? Let’s check in with each other around 2053, and see how it’s going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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