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86JR

86JR

86JR

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Im looking to make a forum and website for some like-minded car enthusiasts in SW UK.

We are sick of the cruise site tripe and social clique stuff that goes on and want our own forums where we can talk about everything.

I want a software thats going to be mega secure, there are a few "hackers" in the local scene who have done stuff in the past and we dont want all that hassle.

The obvious stands out to be Vbulletin, is there anything better ?

And can we suggest virtual server hosting to go with it ? Im expecting a lot of attacks tbh and would like to be able to work with server admin with this if possible :)

Thanks :D
 
I've been looking to setup a forum aswell (personal use not business) and I've gone for phpBB as it free but I think Vbulletin has more features but I hate that you cannot try before you buy. I know you can try an online demo for 24 hours but I'd like to make sure I can run it before spending money.

I have had phpBB running on XP with IIS5, PHP 5 and MySQL but I'm having problems getting it running on my SBS 2008 (64bit) server due to phpisapi.dll being 32 bit but on a 32 bit OS it runs like a dream.
 
I think im going to use UK2's VPS Cloud for hosting :)

Yeh vbulletin seems to be the way forward, pity it costs £130 a year though (including the user blog pack.) Can I confirm that using this I can make the blogs viewable to any user even unregistered whilst having the whole of the rest of the forum private !?
 
Sorry to nick this thread, but where is the future of forums going? vbulletin and phpBB have been around for ages and I was wondering where is the next big thing coming from? Anyone know who are developing newer tools to support web forum developers?
 
Personally Invision Power Board has always been my favorite, although it is certainly not free.

phpBB is the best of all the free ones.
 
phpBB is the best, most up to date free one, while vBulletin is the best paid one IMO. vBulletin has the biggest database of modifications/skins etc!
 
twoblacklines said:
I think im going to use UK2's VPS Cloud for hosting :)

Yeh vbulletin seems to be the way forward, pity it costs £130 a year though (including the user blog pack.) Can I confirm that using this I can make the blogs viewable to any user even unregistered whilst having the whole of the rest of the forum private !?
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There's a single one off licence too. I am looking at this too. However I've gone with phpBB3 for an internal work forum (just kicking around ideas for a way of improving communications).
I've just installed it on kubuntu 32bit in a virtual machine under Parallels on my mac. I have managed to install it on RH AS 4u6 64bit VM but I managed to pooch the VM hehe.

You can try vBulletin for 24 hours but I think, like you, I'd want more time. Hence getting used to phpBB3 then understanding what I need.

The security aspect is not just the BB but also the OS, the webserver and the settings of all three.
 
Historically (up until around 6 months ago) I would have recomended punBB (now fluxBB):

http://fluxbb.org/

As it's a focus on being lean and secure and the code is very easy to follow, not sure how well it's been progressing post the fork now the original developer has left so it's not an unreserved recommendation from me.
 
Yeah i too would vote VBulletin

But there are plenty of others that are very good, and cheaper! I think it depends on what features your looking for etc.
 
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