Cant Upload Pictures...?

[J'z-R33]

Hey guys,

Keep getting the below error when I try to upload pics to SAU.. is this on my end?

Upload failed. Please ask the administrator to check the settings and permissions

[PM-R33]

Yeah +1

Server is probably reaching its capacity limit or something again.

[DRD-00F]

I tried to update my personal photo on my profile dealy (Love-o i know) and it won't let me... boo hoo! :'(

[R34]

Me too

Upload failed. Please ask the administrator to check the settings and permissions

[TokyoTaxi]

Same here.

[cosmic starz]

me too - please Mr/Mrs/Ms ADMINISTRATOR can you fix this bloody nuisance problem a.s.a.p ??

[R31Nismoid]

We are out of space - or very near to it.

SAU doesnt run on air - we need cash to keep it going... simply put we cannot afford anymore space.

So either donate and help (thanks J'z-R33), or host them with a 3rd party site and link them in your post.

Sorry its not a better answer, but this site has grown from 35k users to over 50k in roughly 18months... so its VERY fast.

Just to let you guys know, it costs 4 figures a month to run this site, not cheap at all

[PranK]

We have over 80GB of images now... We have a 100GB drive (well, several, but thats the space available). I am trying to work out a quick solution...

[DRD-00F]

Fire cleanses all

OR you could maybe just ask people to clean out their PM inboxes or something? I think I have like 70 odd pages of crap I'll probably never read again...

Unless there is a seperate image server or something...

[PranK]

There isn't, but I can tell you that only the execs have a lot of PM space and that doesn't account for much on the server.

Have almost sorted new Australian hosting though with images served from Amazon.

[DRD-00F]

Yeah I know, before I was officially an Exec I was cleaning out my PM inbox every fortnight... I haven't done it since

I wish I could help you, I actually work at an internet provider, but our prices aren't very friendly unless you're a rather large corporation

[JAS-25T]

I'd be happy to delete old images if it helped, but I suppose alot of people would need to do it as well.

[R31Nismoid]

PM's dont take up much unfortunately.

One picture in reasonable res would take up more than 1/2 my inbox of many 1,000's of messages.

Top work on some AUS hosting if we can bring it back here, that is excellent news.

I might draw up an announcement about donations, never hurts to get some extra cash to let us give the best

[R31Nismoid]

I'd be happy to delete old images if it helped, but I suppose alot of people would need to do it as well.

Problem is though getting people to do so, virtually impossible.

Add to that people who no longer use the forum, dead accounts, we cant just purge them incase they come back - and purging would be not so nice as im sure we have plenty of accounts taking space for nothing.

But like i said, if even HALF the users donated just $5 to SAU - we'd never have a problem with hosting/space/downtime for a very long time

[DRD-00F]

You can't direct depoist a donation?

[PranK]

There is no need for donations. In fact I plan to remove the option soon as we are being covered by the banners and I'd hate for people to think we have limitations due to the cost. The problem is that when I got this server, our image store was ~50gb and it has grown so quickly over the past 8 months that we have just outgrown the drives. I could just have the drives upgraded but with the current exchange rate, its not as cost effective to leave it in the states any more.