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  • CancerFactory
    Confirmed User
    • Nov 2001
    • 270
    #1

    Pay $160 for Vbulletin Forum or get a FREE phpBB forum?

    gonna be installing a message board soon, and I think the board is gonna be pretty big as far as traffic is considered...
    should I just spend $160 for a VBulletin board which is considered the best forums out there, or should I just get a phpBB board which is free? I had a few people recomend phpBB to me yesterday, but now I cant decide which to go with.

    What I do not want to do is to go with the phpBB board and then a few months from now decide that i need to upgrade to VBULLETIN...I want to pick one and just stick with it. what u think? Will phpBB be sufficent if the board makes it big?
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    • AdultWire
      Confirmed User
      • Feb 2002
      • 962
      #2
      Fuck em both. ikonBoard.
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        • mike503
          Confirmed User
          • May 2002
          • 2243
          #3
          latest ver of phpBB looks pretty snazzy. give it a shot.
          php/mysql guru. hosting, coding, all that jazz.

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            • Mr.Fiction
              Confirmed User
              • Feb 2002
              • 9484
              #4
              vBulletin.

              It's currently running on sites with millions of posts and hundreds of thousands of users.

              Version 3.0 should be out sometime soon, but I wouldn't upgrade until it's been tested in the real world for a while.
              Don't be lazy, protect free speech: ACLU | Free Speech Coalition | EFF | IMPA

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                • Mr.Fiction
                  Confirmed User
                  • Feb 2002
                  • 9484
                  #5
                  Originally posted by AdultWire
                  Fuck em both. ikonBoard.
                  Point me to an Ikonboard site with over a million posts, eh? Maybe they do exist, but I haven't seen one.
                  Don't be lazy, protect free speech: ACLU | Free Speech Coalition | EFF | IMPA

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                    • mike503
                      Confirmed User
                      • May 2002
                      • 2243
                      #6
                      they can both handle a load and a lot of users/posts. one of them is free, the other is not. it all depends on what you want to do.

                      vbulletin has a community of hackers for it too, who make mods and shit and share them on vbulletin.org - that might make it worth the price (maybe support comes with the cost too...)

                      i don't know if phpBB has a community thing for that kinda stuff either...
                      php/mysql guru. hosting, coding, all that jazz.

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                        • AWW - Kevin
                          Confirmed User
                          • Jan 2002
                          • 2353
                          #7
                          stay away from phpbb


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                            • JimmyReject
                              Confirmed User
                              • May 2002
                              • 489
                              #8
                              I guess there is a reason one is pay and one is free.

                              If you can afford it get the VBulletin board

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                                • CancerFactory
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Nov 2001
                                  • 270
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by AWW - Kevin
                                  stay away from phpbb
                                  I noticed that AWW is running phpBB
                                  Are you guys not happy with phpBB? why do you say that I should stay away from them? what kind of problems have you had with them? (if any)

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                                    • Mr.Fiction
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Feb 2002
                                      • 9484
                                      #10
                                      If you do get vBulletin, and if you are going to have high traffic, you should go to the vB support forums and read up on the tweaking you can do to make it scream.

                                      vBulletin is the king!

                                      We've been using it for over 2 years now.
                                      Don't be lazy, protect free speech: ACLU | Free Speech Coalition | EFF | IMPA

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                                        • poolie
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Apr 2002
                                          • 278
                                          #11
                                          get openbb, it's free and has nearly the same stuff as vb.
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