Thread:Project:Support desk/Permanent deletion?/reply (5)

Where exactly did I tell him that he shouldn't care? I told him that in my opinion he should not have to care about the available DB size. This is something completely different. But obviously some guys could misunderstand that; let me make this more clear: Today you can purchase harddisks with some terrabytes in size. Depending on usage, MediaWiki databases can grow quickly up to a few hundred megabytes or more. There it sounds like a joke to tell us that you had to care for "nearly one megabyte". If you cannot save new data in your database, you won't be able to run MediaWiki correctly. In the worst case you will even break your system. You need free space just to continue running the system; any changes on pages and such will need even more space. If you have to worry about a single megabyte, you should really change to a hosting package or even to another hoster, where you have more space available.