vbulletin portal

Supercell

Hi,

I'm running a phpbb board at the moment, its growing pretty fast and have been contacted by the company its basically about offering official support..ie links from their site as well as their support guys linking to it in support mails (as well as giving me a freebie account with them...).

Which is all pretty nice, however i am currently finding that phpbb is a lot of work as it is (approx 3000 members) , i would expect their proposal to exponentially grow that.

Pretty much every big board runs vbulletin including this one..which to me implies that its a better suited format for large or growing sites, and also more secure (according to some people i know that say it is so).

Would like to integrate the website into the board part of things , thus a portal solution seems like a good way to go.

Has anyone here experiences with vb portals, and any recommendations at to what is most flexable and easy to maintain etc?

TIA

longfield

Nb any boards.ie readers that are members of the site ..pls keep this under yer hat for the moment
:ninja:

Keeks

not hosting related so move to webmaster

p

Do some reading on what happened to ntlhellworld.com

If you sell, it the same thing might happen. Perhaps, taking a similar route to Komplett & Elara here might be an option.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/26755.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/24834.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/24836.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/31406.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/31346.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/33382.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/34133.html

Can't answer your other queries though. Good luck.

flywheel

there have been security 'issues' with both systems (check their updates) - just need to keep your eye on the ball with for updates etc.. both for the bulletin board system and of course the services running on the box (apache, mysql, php, ssh etc...)

question is does paying (a small fee) for a license vs. not paying for one offer you better support/security? some people feel more comfortable / secure paying for something - others are happy to take go with the alternative and a more open source approach

in relation to a scalability, as a system phpbb can be on par, being more down to server's resources and configs (partic. http and mysql) as to how much the site can handle rather than a simple phpbb vs. vbulletin implementation

if you are looking for an example of how a phpBB system can be modded - one of the better one's i've seen is www.pocketpcthoughts.com - based on a core phpBB install and modded to provide a portal / subscriber system

BrianG