Vbulliten & phpBB

wizard91

wizard91

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Now we all know that phpBB is the free one and Vbulliten is what you have to pay for. We all pretty much use forums that run on these systems daily.

I dont know if this has been discussed or not, but what are the advantages that Vbulliten has to offer over phpBB and the like? Are there any? Im quite new and trying to learn about websites and stuff, (currently trying hard to learn html :) ) so I dont know if this has been discussed before.

My guess is Vbulliten has a lighter code and is better for larger communites, is this true or are there other reasons for its price tag and popularity?
 
vB is much more secure and has an absolute bucket-load more features, better support and a much more powerful admin cp.

Personally I use phpBB though, mainly because the release of phpBB3 is just around the corner.
 
phpbb is free, cheap and cheerful, easy to setup too :)

yes vB has a lot more features but you have to pay for it and would you really use all the features?

If you're planning to run a massive forum community, vB would be the way to go imo, otherwise stick with phpbb. I've always used phpbb mainly cos i don't wanna pay for it :)
 
vBulletin is a fantastic piece of software and very affordable. If you've got a site worthy of having a forum, it's got to be worth spending £100 on?
 
phpBB is great i dont see why most of you are hating on it. I have installed is a few times the past months on my webspace which will soon be very active. Its got very good IRC/Forum support not to mention the plugins and themes ect. Also being able to intergrate it easy into most CMS's. And i had a play with phpBB 3 Beta and it seemed very good. If your after a free forum phpBB is in a legue of its own if setup properly.
 
SMF is much better than phpbb in my opinion. Made the switch over to SMF about a year ago and never looked back.
 
seek said:
more like £140. and if it's a non-profit site that's a lot to spend on it.
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A rented licence only works out to £50-60 a year because of the strong pound. :)
 
Adz said:
vBulletin is a fantastic piece of software and very affordable
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I need to get some forum software for a friend's website and was thinking vBulletin was the best, didn't realise it was £160 pound though!
 
Have a look at this one OvBB its based on vB2xx with modern components........Its only just getting started,but when this gets really sorted it'll be a good un :cool:
 
I used to run a phpbb forum and it was getting hacked all the time and also robotic registrations were a big problem.

Everyday you would see porn or viagra websites being advertised in the member list.

The security on phpbb is really bad and you will find yourself updating the security with patches etc every month.

Since I switched to VB I have had no problems with security and the upgrades are easy to do. In a year I have upgraded 3 times, all with no problems.

VB also has a lot of useful things like searching within a forum and a calendar which will do birthdays for you. To do the same in phpbb it will require a lot of code changes and modding....A real headache.

VB works and thats all there is to it :D


*Edit* It may seem expensive at first but if you buy a owned licence then it's a one off.

Once you have that then all you pay is £20 a year which will entitle you to technical support and future upgrades.

If you don't want the technical support and upgrades then you pay nothing.
 
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k sounding like vBulletin is the one, can anyone outline the 'basic' guide to setting this up (I mean basic!) like how do u get the software installed on the server if it remote etc?

If u know what u are doing how long do u think it would take to set-up a forum?

I don't expect a complete answer but any simple info for a nOOb would be great!

Thanks :)
 
seek said:
utter BS.

in 2006, there were TWO security updates released.
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I've had VB since the begining of 2006 so wouldn't know about updates for that year but phpbb was a constant headache for me from 2003 until the end of 2005.

Some of it could have be down to bad server security as since then I have changed hosting companies several times and now have a VPS.
 
Big.Wayne said:
k sounding like vBulletin is the one, can anyone outline the 'basic' guide to setting this up (I mean basic!) like how do u get the software installed on the server if it remote etc?

If u know what u are doing how long do u think it would take to set-up a forum?

I don't expect a complete answer but any simple info for a nOOb would be great!

Thanks :)
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The documentation and installation process for VB is absolutely first class - check that out first and if you have any problems come back here. :)
 
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