[JohnBee]

Erwin, you are the man.

What would it take for you to publish an official document on this topic? The thought of distributing resources across hardware is highly beneficial for so many people, I just can't believe Jelsoft hasn't placed more attention into this aspect of vBulletin's functions. I am working on a project with scalability in mind and we are a point where the powers at be are avoiding a vBulletin solution for none other than high traffic performance barriers.

Basically, we are looking at offloading images, attachments and .php onto discrete servers and synchronizing the primary db under the same node. However, this will not be sufficient, and so the possibilities of propping each individual forum as indivodual servers has come up. The biggest challenge we face in doing, would be to retain the global functions a single forum offers.

I have already requested information over at vbulletin.com on this matter and have been referred here instead. Since you seem like the resident expert on these matters, would you be willing to help(under wage) to establish such a setup? I am not asking for any special favors(per say) since whatever information fathered in the process could be freely distributed to others. So we would essentially pay you for your time.

I know this should most likely end up in another forum, but since the topic was already opened here I took the path less traveled