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Skyforum 
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 Topic: Sub-Categories.
Posted: 10 September 2005 at 10:29pm |
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Is it possible to create sub categories? I know I can create
categories, then as many forums as I want, But it would be nice to be
able to build a sub-category system.
Example:
Would like a category
"Photo Albums"
then a few subs called
"Light recovery"
"Med Recovery" and
"heavy recovery"
My board will grow very fast. I full expect several million posts
within the next year. I need to be able to really build a good post
structure to keep control.
I just got it up, haven't even advertsied anything yet and it already has several hundred views.
Check it out at:
http://www.towtalk.net
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Posted: 11 September 2005 at 7:07am |
 Skyforum wrote:
Is it possible to create sub categories? |
Please do a search, this has been covered a zillion times here. Sub-catergories will be a feature of version 8.
Skyforum wrote:
My board will grow very fast. I full expect several million posts within the next year.
I just got it up, haven't even advertsied anything yet and it already has several hundred views.
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You do realize that one search bot can easily create thousands of 'views' a day? We have a view : post ratio of approximately 30 : 1 on our site, meaning that for each post we are getting 30 views.
Expecting millions of posts because you got a few hundred views is not really realistic, to say the least. 
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JCH2
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Posted: 11 September 2005 at 10:23am |
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"Subforums' has been addresses elsewhere. But I find no address of "subcategories." I think you might have things confused. And I think subcategories might be overkill anyway. Visitors might understand the conception of subforums easy enough, but subcatogories would probably just clutter the opening page of the site and make it difficult to combine with listings of subforums.
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Skyforum
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Posted: 11 September 2005 at 3:44pm |
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Yes, I do have things cornfused. I realized it last night. I took my
tow hook and bopped myself upside my head. Everything is fine now.
As far as being unrealistic about the amount of hits I will be
recieving on this forum in the future, I am afraid that I may even get
more than that.
I am known across the country and have a very large following of
friends within the towing industry. My board is towing specific. Just
to start with, there are 26,000 towing companies on my mailing lists. I
know all about search engines and link bots and the false traffic they
can create.
I will be the one to check on next year to see just how well this board
holds up to a very large volume of posts. I fully expect more than a
thousand registered members within the next six months. That level of
registered members can create several million posts a year. It can also
spread a lot of goodwill for webwiz's forums if they can perform.
We really are a prolific bunch. Just watch us grow. If you want to see what's possible, check out this forum
http://www.tow411.net
They have endured ezboards whacked system for a few years. That board
currently boasts over 9 million posts (most of which have been lost
because of a serious security breach EZboard just recently endured)
Feel free to come by and cruise our forum. You don't have to be a tower
to be a member and access a large percentage of the posts. If you have
a car that needs to be towed and you want to make sure it's being done
right, come present your info and a HOARD of towers will offer their
expertise and input.
I am prepared for the onslaught. My server is tied to the Internet with
a very solid T-1 hardwired directly to my building. The server is a
dual xeon unit with 2 gigs of ram, twin 200 gig scsi hi speed drives in
a raid array (with plenty of room for additional storage space) on a
Windows Server 2003 platform sporting Microsofts SQL server 200 keeping
the data in the right place. This server has one job and one job only.
To host my board and my website. Think it will do?
I do.....
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Posted: 11 September 2005 at 5:21pm |
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Are you talking about sub-sub forums?
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Lead me not into temptation... I know the short cut, follow me.
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Posted: 12 September 2005 at 1:07pm |
I am envying you for your hardware, but one question comes up: We are having page generation times of about 2-3 seconds on our rather slow shared server, and that is for a heavily modified main page with lots of database queries, all Access-based. ( http://www.students4democracy.org/sfd/forum/)
I would have expected that your hardware would generate your main page, particularly since your are using MSSQL at least 100 times faster but nonetheless it is showing page generation times for your forum of 1-2 seconds 
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Posted: 13 September 2005 at 3:27pm |
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When I load the page from my desktop by actually going onto the net and
coming back to my server, I'm getting speeds like .013. Very fast. My
thinking would be that your system or ISP may be causing your slow load
speeds.
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