man, that is nutty.
now, after all the trouble getting rid of the old boards to please my server hosts, i'm worried they're gonna come after me for having too large of a database! (never got so close to 2GB before!)
on a side note, i gotta admit i'm pretty impressed that the GZ can compress the database backup that much! 1.8 gb to less than 300 mb is amazing!
other than literally deleting threads/members, is there anything else you can think of that i can do to sorta ease the burden of the beast a bit?