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Maximum NUmber of Forums · **Released**: 04-09-2006

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Ok here is my situation - My forum is a nationwide message board system for firefighters. http://www.fire-forums.com In addition to having numerous specific forums for topics pertaining to emergency services, I also have forums specifying regions of the United States that lead to a forum for each state. The forum just recently went up and running

My plan was to have (under each state) a forum for each county to allow for specific conversations. I was going to add these over time as people requested them but i figured I would go ahead and add a little at a time.

If I choose to make a forum for each county under each state will this be too much as far as memory usage or anything of the sorts on my website? There are just a little over 3,000 counties in the united states. I would most likely turn off the function for the forum jump feature.

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

Paul M · #2 04-09-2006, 11:55 AM

Your site will almost certainly die before you reach 3,000 due to the way forum information is cached.

gavinzac · #3 04-09-2006, 12:25 PM

yeah i dont think this is possible. in fact, i think its not even possible to have more than 255 forums/categories because the forum ID number is stored as a "short number".

Paul M · #4 04-09-2006, 01:56 PM

That's not true at all, the id is defined as smallint(5) unsigned, which allows 65535 in theory.

gavinzac · #5 04-09-2006, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul M

That's not true at all, the id is defined as smallint(5) unsigned, which allows 65535 in theory.

ah, sorry. saw someone else say that and assumed they ahd a clue what they were talking about

Xenon · #6 04-09-2006, 06:47 PM

hmm, i have heard that someone has got 10k forums before the forum went down...

as i posted into that thread, i suggest to use another system, like the thread prefixes, we use here for subforums of hack forums...

Paul M · #7 04-09-2006, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Xenon

hmm, i have heard that someone has got 10k forums before the forum went down...

Well it would depend on your servers PHP Memory Limit - the bigger that is - the more it could cache.

Xenon · #8 04-09-2006, 07:03 PM

i still wouldn't do it

Erwin · #9 04-10-2006, 06:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Xenon

hmm, i have heard that someone has got 10k forums before the forum went down...

as i posted into that thread, i suggest to use another system, like the thread prefixes, we use here for subforums of hack forums...

10k of forums???!!!

Paul M · #10 04-10-2006, 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Xenon

i still wouldn't do it

Well yes, neither would I - even if it worked, the performance would probably suck big time.