For anybody looking for an update I've decided to build something that basically builds completely static pages and updates itself twice a day for all of my articles.
On a site like mine it will greatly decrease the load and make my system capable of serving a LOT more pages. This affectively broke the current Vbulletin integration since I'm no longer using session handling in any form for the articles. I'm currently looking at simple ways of tapping into the sessions while using as few resources as possible!
I also plan on building a news and article list "caching" system. I might release addons to some of the portal systems out there currently to help your news pages load alot faster.
If there's a developer here that wants the build of my article system right before my static file version I can give you the DB structure and the .php file, but it's FAR from anything normal users can use. I will have absolutely zero support, you'll have to know a LOT of PHP and have released at least 2 hacks for me to send it to you. Hopefully somebody will be able to pickup where I left off with the system and create something releasable to you guys. I believe that my system is the best thing out there for articles. It even holds up to massive amounts of traffic!
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