Thread:Project:Support desk/Gigabytes of data taken up by MySQL database for mediawiki installation/reply (6)

I don't have SSH access with my webhost, and when I try to make a cron job to run compressOld I'm getting JSON parse errors which I can't figure out because I have no idea what cron jobs are or anything and am mostly just running on google-fumes. I was using, "php /home1/culexus/public_html/ngwiki/maintenance/storage/compressOld.php" with a cron job cPanel thing that let me set it to run every minute (just to get it done ASAP). And yes it does say I'm /home1/culexus/ on the cPanel.

I can't do a backup because of the issue of it being 81 gigs, and that would not only take a week or so of constant downloading I think Comcast would come smack me for it. I also can't get my host company to help me because of the semi-account suspension and their claims of it dealing with MediaWiki, therefore they will do nothing.

I'm assuming deleting mdw_text would remove the ENTIRE text on every page? No way to delete users/userpages through phpMyAdmin and tweaking files?