Do you keep the folders for customavatars, customprofilepics, customgroupicons and signaturepics in the root folder of your forum or do you remove/move them to another location?
I store images and attachments in the filesystem rather than the database. Each has their own specific folder. E.g. /attachments.
Because image files, attachments, etc. just bloat the database. My forum is attachment-heavy, so it just adds so much to the database. I prefer to keep the database as slim as possible and removing attachments/images helps me do just that. If you're curious, here are the relevant stats according to my ACP: Data usage (database): 69.18MB Attachment usage: 253.37MB Total Attachments: 3,012 So by keeping the attachments in the filesystem, I'm keeping my database 253.37MB smaller. My attachments take up more than three-and-a-half times the size of my database alone.
