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vBulletin Hosting I need a legal vBulletin hosting company,
Right now I'm planning to go ahead with phpBB and later upgrade to vBulletin as $160 is kinda too much money for spending on a Forum. So I need hosts that provide vBulletin that is legal. I'm going to host a fansite. Well initially this site is going to be very very small with about 100 users and about 5 to 10 users browsing a day. So the load on the network or the server would not be much. Yes, you're right I want the plan to be equal to or less than Rs.200/month. I'm planning to buy an account from Netfirms. What do you guyz say?
Re: vBulletin Hosting I don't know much about forum software, can someone fill me in on the features that vBulletin has but phpBB does not...
Re: vBulletin Hosting i know only one thing about phpBB... that it is one of the most hacked forum applications available online. it gets way too many patches and you have to keep working hard by keeping on installing the new updates.
it also lacked support for cascaded forums i think recently. not sure about now. but none of the guys i talked to who run damn popular forums are comfortable with the idea of using phpbb.
mozilla forums are the only popular phpbb forum i have seen.
btw. for a small discussion forum solution. i would recommend using bbpress. it's simple and it works. and it is being developed at a rapid pace. upgrades are easy. and speed is awesome.
here are the list of features which are not there in version 2.x.x but have been added in version 3 which is still undergoing beta testing. this should give you an idea on what was/is missing in phpbb :p
Full UTF-8 support
Attachments
* Attachments in posts and PMs
* Automatic image thumbnails
* Attach images, documents, video streams, archives
* Multiple attachments allowed
* Display attachments inline
Unlimited Subforums
* Create unlimited subforums
* Display active topics of all subforums
Custom BBCodes
* Create your own BBCodes
* Add buttons to posting screen
Custom Profile Fields
* Add new fields on user profiles
* Display them at registration
* Display them on the profile view
* Hide new profile fields
* Support different data types
User Control Panel
* Manage subscribed topics & forums
* Manage bookmarked topics
* Manage saved drafts
* Manage private messages
* Manage usergroups
* Manage friends and foes
* Manage attachments
New Moderating Tools
* Moderation queue
* Topic merging
* Topic copying
* Locking of single posts
* Topic history
Caching and performance
* Templates are cached
* Permissions are cached
* Forum config is cached
* Database queries are cached
Friends and Foes
* Add other members as friends or foes
* Posts by foes are hidden
* Friends are shown in friends list
Warnings and Reports
* Users can report topics and posts
* Moderators can warn users
More Improvements For Users
* Bookmark topics
* Subscribe to forums
* Jabber/xmpp support for notifications
* Mail or print topics
* "You got beaten at posting notification"
More Improvements For Admins
* Global announcements
* Display forum rules on forum page
* Prune inactive users
* User, moderator, admin and error logs
* Language pack editing
* User notes
* Detect search spiders
Last edited by admin; April 24th, 2007 at 03:33 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
Re: vBulletin Hosting Looks like phpBB can use more developers.
Was curious since most forums that I visit are in DB / BI space and they run phpBB (e.g. http://www.forumtopics.com/busobj/index.php). Maybe developers are biased towards Open Source.
Re: vBulletin Hosting of course. the reason i believe mozilla also uses phpbb. smf and bbpress are other two open source solutions... but for most shifting to another software solution could result in bigger problems. i am still getting a lot of visitors to the links on the old forum pages...
Re: vBulletin Hosting I have to disagree with this, it's upto the admin to keep their forum software upto date, if they are lazy to update then they have to face the consequences. The first version of phpBB 2.0.x was released on april 2002 so 22 updates in 60 months, which I don't call it as too manyOriginally Posted by Sushubh
smf is not open source, it's just a freeware.
Last edited by Prakash2004; April 24th, 2007 at 04:27 PM.
Re: vBulletin Hosting that does not mean that you give me a software which is so prone to hacking. do some decent beta testing. get the damn thing fixed before releasing it for public consumption.I have to disagree with this, it's upto the admin to keep their forum software upto date, if they are lazy to update then they have to face the consequences.
take wordpress for example. it has seen its share of vulnerabilities. but overall the product is pretty darn secure.
good point about SMF. bbpress and phpbb are two of open source bb applications. punbb was supposed to be another good one. but its dead now i guess?
Re: vBulletin Hosting Majority of hacking occurs because of outdated version. Like every software phpBB will have bugs, so our best try would be to keep the software upto date.
Re: vBulletin Hosting I don't think its as simple... if you have done any modifications to forum software then version upgrade can be a big task in itself.
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