[FlyBoy73]

I'm not sure exactly how many individual forums we have now but it is certainly over 500. The last time I updated forum information I think it went to 943 or something like that. Of course, we have discontinued and merged forums in the past but most still remain.

I discussed this with MarcoH64 in the past and he said we would not take much of a hit at all having a lot of forums - so we expanded greatly without any problems. With all the forums we have, lots (usually between 1,000-2,000) of members on at one time, and only currently using two dual xeon 2.0 servers (1 web, 1 data base) it has done ok when optimized properly. (I am moving to our new Opteron server(s) in the next week)

Our primary forum also deals with International, National and regional issues. We have forums for all 50 States, and under each there are probably at least 5 forums in most of them. Some have upward of 20++ sub-forums. Then we have categories, forums & sub-forums for other countries and regions. This all in addition to the non-regional forums & sub-forums. This all has expanded with time and demand but is key to getting down on the ground in the regions that we want and giving the people there their own areas that vary considerably from the needs and information in other states / regions / countries.

You should have little trouble creating as many sub-forums as you need, CaptainRon.