Hi!

I know that it is not possible to answer this question, but I wanted to get a feeling for the size of MySQL databases used with Drupal websites. I have no idea what to expect for a average company website (no community). Some product presentations, a news section (will not post every day, maybe once per week on average, if so).

I am sitting here in Brazil and the hosting market here ist totally new for me. So I am trying to get around to find out which host will fit.

I found that company which looks good to me, Drupal should work. However, they have a limit of 50MB for the database, which concerns me a little bit, as a pretty clean test installation of Drupal already uses more than 3MB on my test server.

So what are your experiences? Maybe you can give me some examples of your websites and the size of the database? This would help me a lot to estimate whether this makes sense or not.

Thanks!
Holgerson

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nicksanta’s picture

Is the hosting plan 50mb for the database or 50mb in total for the site?
50mb is a huge amount for a database.
50mb for a whole site could get cramped very quickly if you were uploading images, videos or music, installing lots of modules etc...

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Nick Santamaria

Anonymous’s picture

The 50MB limit may just be the Maximum file upload size. My Host has the same, from what i understand that is a function of phpMyAdmin. My own Database is well past 70MB, I just export smaller chunks of Tables rather than them all, and likewise upload small chunks when restoring

edited Mb to MB :)

Holgerson’s picture

Thanks for the replies so far.

The host offers 5 MySQL databases with a total of 50MB. For the website itself you get 60GB, which to me is in no relation. It is a norm al website, there might be some occactional fotos, pdf or ppt files to be uploaded, but in no way will I get even close to 60GB. 1GB would be probably more than enough.

However, the limit of 50MB for databases seems to be to small to be "future proof".

I might not reacht 50MB within the next 2 years, but what when I reach the limit? It seems not to be something strange to surpass this limit as this comment shows.

nickspages’s picture

Hello,
My name is Nick and I am here to say that a large Drupal database is 1.5-2GB. I created a new product called the Atomic SEO Page Blast (ASPB) and clients using the ASPB have database dumps of over 1.5GB. You can see the ATPB on sites such as nickspages.com and themecourt.com.

bander2’s picture

I used to run an ecommerce site on D7 with Commerce and the database got to around 900MB. I thought that was pretty big for a pretty small estore.

Drupal does a lot of caching in the DB so maybe it requires more DB size than some other apps. I would be worried about 50MB.

- Brendan