First vBulletin Sites Up and Running ?

[wandrer]

So whose all got it up and running..... Has anyone done a medium-large site import from UBB to vBulletin ?

[Menno]

I wish I had it up, but my mySQL account isn't going to be installed till this weekend :(

[Mike Sullivan]

Here's a decent example. Still some glitches I have to iron out, but I imported 9000 posts, 12 forums, and about 260 members without much trouble. Aside from the code changes I had to make to compensate that I ran a hacked (very hacked) version of the freeware.

http://www.magic-singles.com/cpa/forums/index.php

[wandrer]

http://www.magic-singles.com/cpa/forums/index.php

Looks nice...

[Dr Dollarz]

is vbulletin free?

[Matt]

Well your forum looks good but the copyright issue needs to be addressed it this a mistake in the import feature?

[Mike Sullivan]

That's what John had as the original copyright in the beta. I haven't changed it yet. :)

[jimbo]

I ran into a few problems with server timeouts, but that was on my end.

Other than that, from the time I closed my UBB, I got vBulletin running and open in about 40 minutes. I had to re-do some of the graphics, but other than that it was great. The templates are a little hard to get used to, but once you do, they are AWESOME, slick as hell.

http://forums.bronx-bombers.com

[Edited by jimbo on 04-19-2000 at 11:03 PM]

[wandrer]

I closed my UBB, I got vBulletin running and open in about 40 minutes.

any difference in server usage changing from perl to php/mysql ?

[jimbo]

any difference in server usage changing from perl to php/mysql ?




I couldn't tell you *actual* usage amounts, as it is not hosted in house. I do know, however, that there is no waiting for the inevitable "UBB Blank Screen", where the backgound loads but nothing else. It is all pretty much instantaneous. It is much smoother, is doesn't seem like it's a burden on the server like the UBB does.

[Menno]

from what I've seen sofar (seeing as I still have to install mine) vB is much slicker then the ubb, a lot faster to (posting is a breeze here, while UBB discouraged me to post sometimes cause it would take to long)

[robertjvan]

on you this weekend. BTW I can in last night from home tonight I'll try from the Legion!

[Cold Steel]

aForums.com (http://aforums.com)

Around 1000 members, 45000 posts in 22 forums.

Also hacked the UBB scripts to let users know that we've moved:

http://www.dachamber.net/cgi-bin/ubb/Ultimate.cgi

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

[John]

The forum from which vBulletin was formed, grew up, and became the product that it is now:

http://forums.vb-world.net/

7500 members, 50000 posts...

John

[manhattan]

The Straight Dope Message Board (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/) is running in Vbulletin after an 8-hour conversion (involving over 450K posts) last Saturday. There were some glitches with timestamps, and the archives are still awaiting conversion, but it mostly went well.

I don’t know the technical stats, but performance is way up from the user’s standpoint. It’s been months since we’ve gone a whole week without a crash. Our biggest problem is that the improved performance is encouraging people to post more. A lot more. Our poor T-1 is gonna die of overwork and loneliness soon if it doesn’t get a mate!

It might be worth a visit to our site if only to peruse the "About This Message Board" forum. Our membership is quite vocal about what they like and don't like about the new software, and one can get a good education into what users are thinking.

Just ignore the parts where we slap them upside the head for quibbling over the small stuff when there has been such a big overall improvement.

[Parker Clack]

I am still waiting on some of the small glitches to be worked before running vBulletin on our site out but I successfully imported over 11,000 members, and 100,000 posts from UBB with no problem.

Parker

[TotalBS]

I found all those comments on the Straight Dope message board interesting.

And the handling of Banned members and sock puppets was interesting.

Still waiting to get MySQL installed on my server before I can jump into the vB world though.

[bira]

Originally posted by Parker Clack
I am still waiting on some of the small glitches to be worked before running vBulletin on our site out but I successfully imported over 11,000 members, and 100,000 posts from UBB with no problem.

Parker



Same here exactly. I just can't wait though :)

[JonnyQuest]

You can check out ours at http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum
Roughly 5k users imported from UBB. Took a couple of tries before the import went smoothly. Still trying to tweak some speed issues.

[firewire]

Originally posted by Cold Steel
Around 1000 members, 45000 posts in 22 forums.

Cold Steel, are there any statistics available about how much traffic your board is producing per month?
I am asking because I run a similiar Forum (UBB still, not that much postings (i purge often), but 20.000 pageviews a day) and traffic is a real concern for us since we must pay per GB traffic/bandwidth over here in Germany :(

Any information is appreciated.

Regards

[Menno]

Mine's open to the public :)
But it's still really empty http://tga.mine.nu/artbeast/forum/index.php

[ABrazell]

any reason why NONE of your sites work anymore? ;)

[BillaBongUSA]

The Straight Dope message boards still work. :)

[Dr Shark]

Originally posted by Dr Dollarz
is vbulletin free?
No but worth the money.;)

[Freddie Bingham]

Originally posted by ABrazell
any reason why NONE of your sites work anymore? ;) People get tired of running a forum and *poof* it is gone. These posts are 2.5 years old.

[firewire]

Hehe, nope, we are still there :)
Having ~32.000 members and ~300.000 Postings now and some improvements in server equipment, but still running vB to our complete satisfaction. :)

But jeez times flies by, this thread really IS old :)
We still used to have UBB then and switched over to vB right on that month. :)

[ManagerJosh]

Good lord.....someone really revived a dead thread.

[fury]

Originally posted by ManagerJosh
Good lord.....someone really revived a dead thread. I wouldn't necessarily say revived, just poked with a stick. Revived would mean this thread has to pick up activity. There've been just 6 replies to the thread since the poking with a stick.

[Kathy]

I'll poke it with a stick too. :D

I changed from UBB to VB shortly after this thread began...(I think! time sure does fly....)

My forums are still up and running...We hit our 500,000 post last week. :clap:

:cool:

[Zecherieh]

Made me think, anyone have a copy of vB1.1? I am curious to see what we started with again.

[Wayne Luke]

Go look at any current UBB. The style of vBulletin 1.X was the same.

[Total Cult]

Chris Schreiber used to have one on his server, but for some reason I get a 403 forbidden error when I try to get to it now

[vBR]

Originally posted by Total Cult
Chris Schreiber used to have one on his server, but for some reason I get a 403 forbidden error when I try to get to it now Ooooh!

Curiouser and curiouser

[fury]

I think vBulletin 1.1's style was based on UBB 5.4.x, because 6.x wasn't out yet. From what I recall of the retelling of the story of vBulletin, John got tired of waiting for the rewrite of UBB and wrote his own board.

[Parker Clack]

We are still around. Only now we have over 37,000 registered members and 1.4 million posts. We started right after vBulletin started up and if I recall right John had written vBulletin for his own use and a bunch of people that were tired of UBB and its business plan at the time went and asked him if he would write it for those of us that wanted a system based on MySQL and PHP. I even got David Bott with AVS Forum to switch over to vBulletin from UBB.

I find that I am waiting once again for vBulletin to come out with version 3.xx that is out of Beta.

It just seems like yesterday that vBulletin hit the internet and look where it is today.

Parker

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