vBulletin?

[john voight]

any compitent forum owner will tell you Vbulletin, if not a custom forum, is the standard for large forums.

check out what these huge sites use:

http://www.big-boards.com/

I would suggest getting in touch w/ them and getting their input on how things are running in relation to the software.

[Madtown]

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Seriously. Go to http://www.big-boards.com/ . Have a look at what the biggest boards on the Internet are using. UBB is nowhere in sight.

I'm curious as to what problems we'll see if we switch boards. phpBB and vBulletin are very configurable from what I understand.

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I suggested they switch to vB about a year ago, if not longer. Thankfully it looks like this failed upgrade will finally force them to convert.

Just, for the love of god, do NOT convert to phpBB. That thing is a breeding ground of security holes.

[Neuge]

I really like vBulliten, but I wouldn't say it's the best bar none. I prefer Lithium more, but from what I understand it's pretty expensive.

[Neil S]

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Just, for the love of god, do NOT convert to phpBB. That thing is a breeding ground of security holes.

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[benza13]

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Just, for the love of god, do NOT convert to phpBB. That thing is a breeding ground of security holes.

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C'mon, thats just what all the scammers around here need.

[Mat Sklansky]

we actually are willing to spend money.

we just want to be sure that money is spent wisely.

[kross]

Can the performance issues be solved by more hardware?

I have no idea what your hardware configuration is, or what your budget for more hardware is, but could you put the MySQL database on its own server, and Apache/PHP/UBB on a different server? You can also have clusters of servers to handle more load, for both the web front end, and the database backend.

Of course, if UBB is inherently inefficient, then moving to new software would probably solve your problems with your current hardware. If UBB isn't that inefficient, but you've just outgrown your server(s), then most other software platforms will suffer similar problems, and you really need more hardware.

-- Kevin

[BradleyT]

I would be very suprised if they didn't already have multiple servers.

[lastchance]

Bumped because smart people seem to be pushing this option.

[4 High]

The 2 other boards i frequent outside of 2P2, one uses UBB the other Vbulliten, i prefer v.