I'm pretty sure it is sectioned off, but the login and front dorr is always used. when you go to read a forum it checks for authorisation levels, when you go to reply it checks for authorisations. everything we do must be authenticated, and that's all on one machine, for entire site. that's what really slows it down. the forums really could be broken down into smaller batches on different machines. but if they don't break the authentication onto the separations already made, then it's not really gonna help. ( remember when they tested new script, and the forums were text only, as the graphics server was being worked on? [ a couple of years back ] )