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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.

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Your site will almost certainly die before you reach 3,000 due to the way forum information is cached.
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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".
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That's not true at all, the id is defined as smallint(5) unsigned, which allows 65535 in theory.
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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
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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...
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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.
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i still wouldn't do it
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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???!!!
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i still wouldn't do it
Well yes, neither would I - even if it worked, the performance would probably suck big time.
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