there's a site I know about that has
128606420 posts and 1094772 users that seems to be running phpBB just fine...
either is fine, but a LOT of people rave about the VBulletin cpanel...
start with phpBB and when you get bored and feel like dropping cash by VBull and pay a mysql guy to move your db over...

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