[thelist] Best Way to Make a Forum

J J squid_66 at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 29 20:57:17 CDT 2001


Text type, so I don't have to worry about message size
limitations.  Some people like to get wordy in their
messages, or post articles, etc.


--- John McRaven <theraven at san.rr.com> wrote:
> Thanks,
>   I kinda figured it was a database.  What datatype
> do you use for the
> messages though?
> 
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of J
> J
> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 8:45 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Best Way to Make a Forum
> 
> 
> Database, for sure.  SQL Server will work flawlessly
> with several hundred connections
> searching/viewing/posting thousands of messages if
> the
> ASP code is written well.  Of course, most sites
> won't
> have but a few connections at any one time if the
> connections are properly opened and closed.
> 
> The main concern will be how well your code is
> written.
> 
> I have over 100 forums running on one web server and
> one dedicated SQL server, storing over 200,000
> messages serving over 2 million data-driven pages a
> month, with no problems and it's quite responsive.
> 
> But this is using code I've written from the ground
> up
> and have modified or fine tuned over the last couple
> years.
> 
> 
> 

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