Vbulletin Max Forum Capacity?

[TheWatcher]

Can you have too many forums? What's the most anyones ever seen or heard of? Our site plans to have close to 20,000 forums. Will this slow down or hinder the software?
Thanks!

[matthewhotdude]

Wow thats a lot of forums, what's the site about

[Jake Bunce]

With that many forums the size of the datastore cache would become very large and slow down the forum. You may be able to get away with it if you use one of the alternative datastore storage options in the includes/config.php file.

[TheWatcher]

I just recieved this error message: "Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2164837 bytes) in /home/deal1262/public_html/dealerwatch.org/dealerwatch/includes/class_core.php on line 1173"

What do I do?

[musclenexus]

I would love to see your site once it's done. 20k forums is huge!!!!

[Zachery]

You'll need to increase the ammount of memory available for php to use.

[Steve Machol]

Realistically you will have a problem getting over 1000 forums before you start running into problems. 20,000 forums is not feasible with the current PHP/MySQL architecture.

[TheWatcher]

Wow...this certainly isn't very encouraging. Thank you everyone for your help anyway.