Limited amount of forums

[Samppa]

Seems that amount of forums is limited to approx. 1000. I´m building a huge board which needs about 5000 different forums :alien:

There must be a reason for this limit. What would that be and what kind of risks a board with huge size brings on?

Is there possibilities to remove this limit or do I have to join a number of forums to one -> this would also need some modification so that all forums would use same user db, navbars would work as in one board etc.

Any ideas?

[Borgs8472]

Just out of interest, what sort of board needs 5000 forums?

I suppose a commercial application like a travel agents broken down by country, town, villa and apartement might need that many, but I can't picture it personally...

Ah, maybe it's for porn... ;)

It's probably a question for vb.com IMO.

[Samppa]

Good thinking Borgs8472, board would be broken down by coutries.

I already asked help from vb.com but they can not help with this issue.

[Quillz]

How can vB have limited amount of forums when it's advertised as allowing for an infinite amount of forums and sub-forums?

[dizzy2005]

welcome to the difference between advertising and reality ;)

we've got the same problem: about 1.000 sub-forums, still growing (we are doing a music magazine and want to build a sub-forum for each artist portayed on our site, that makes about 3.500 sub-forums) and that doesn't seem to be possible with vBulletin.

does anybody know a solution to this or do we really have to look for a different forum-system (which would be a great pity)

[JTyson]

Just out of curiosity what limits are you guys coming across?

[dizzy2005]

massive performance (memory) problems. the httpd-processes of the forum-user need 20-30 mb each!