tgshaw
Sat 23rd Jun '07, 2:21pm
I've been reading the pre-sales forum, which has answered a lot of my questions, but I still need some help to pull it all together. Hope you don't mind an explanation of what's happening, so someone can point out any issues I haven't considered.
The Situation Part 1: For about 5 years, I've been an active member of a community that runs on vBulletin. The site consists of just the forum. The owner now has a life :eek: and has been letting the site/forum slide. Things came to a head last week with a message from a "friendly" hacker (the type that just says, "Hey, look, I broke in - you'd better fix your security"). Not a big surprise, since the forum's running on version 3.0.3! Of course, the owner hasn't put any money into upgrades for quite awhile and doesn't plan to now - the hacker's note is still blocking the forum's home page.
The Situation Part 2: The owner has offered to transfer the forum to any interested moderator (of which I'm one) first, before he looks for other buyers. I have a content site in the same niche, to which I've been thinking of adding a forum. I wasn't planning to use vBulletin if I started a new forum, but if I move the current one to my site it would be an attractive idea since the members are already used to using it.
From reading this pre-sale forum, my understanding is that the process would be:
-- Current owner would have to renew the (owned) license for the $30 annual fee. Question: Would it be necessary for him to do the upgrade to the latest version before he transfers the license, or could I do that afterward?
-- I'd buy the license directly from the owner (that is, I'd pay him, not Jelsoft).
-- One of us [which one?] would report the transfer to Jelsoft; I assume there's a way to do that somewhere on this site.
-- Then the one bit I haven't found an answer to: How do I transfer the license from the current domain to mine? I'd assume that would also have to be registered with Jelsoft. I definitely do want the forum on my site, but I don't necessarily want to move the whole thing there, unless that would be the simplest way to go.
-- My understanding is that then I'd own the "owned" license, and could pay the annual $30 (which, believe me, I would do!) for upgrades, etc.
Do I have it right? Are there things I've overlooked?
A side issue is that my original plan was to use a forum program with a built-in component that allows members to have individual blogs, as that's become very important in the niche. I think it would be worth using vBulletin in order to keep the forum's original set-up going, but if there's no blog add-on in the near future (I read somewhere on this site that one's expected in a couple of months?), I may need some suggestions on how to add that capability.
Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions...
The Situation Part 1: For about 5 years, I've been an active member of a community that runs on vBulletin. The site consists of just the forum. The owner now has a life :eek: and has been letting the site/forum slide. Things came to a head last week with a message from a "friendly" hacker (the type that just says, "Hey, look, I broke in - you'd better fix your security"). Not a big surprise, since the forum's running on version 3.0.3! Of course, the owner hasn't put any money into upgrades for quite awhile and doesn't plan to now - the hacker's note is still blocking the forum's home page.
The Situation Part 2: The owner has offered to transfer the forum to any interested moderator (of which I'm one) first, before he looks for other buyers. I have a content site in the same niche, to which I've been thinking of adding a forum. I wasn't planning to use vBulletin if I started a new forum, but if I move the current one to my site it would be an attractive idea since the members are already used to using it.
From reading this pre-sale forum, my understanding is that the process would be:
-- Current owner would have to renew the (owned) license for the $30 annual fee. Question: Would it be necessary for him to do the upgrade to the latest version before he transfers the license, or could I do that afterward?
-- I'd buy the license directly from the owner (that is, I'd pay him, not Jelsoft).
-- One of us [which one?] would report the transfer to Jelsoft; I assume there's a way to do that somewhere on this site.
-- Then the one bit I haven't found an answer to: How do I transfer the license from the current domain to mine? I'd assume that would also have to be registered with Jelsoft. I definitely do want the forum on my site, but I don't necessarily want to move the whole thing there, unless that would be the simplest way to go.
-- My understanding is that then I'd own the "owned" license, and could pay the annual $30 (which, believe me, I would do!) for upgrades, etc.
Do I have it right? Are there things I've overlooked?
A side issue is that my original plan was to use a forum program with a built-in component that allows members to have individual blogs, as that's become very important in the niche. I think it would be worth using vBulletin in order to keep the forum's original set-up going, but if there's no blog add-on in the near future (I read somewhere on this site that one's expected in a couple of months?), I may need some suggestions on how to add that capability.
Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions...