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Jisung
Mon 30th Oct '00, 11:52pm
Hello,

I need to buy any BB software very soon and I'm considering UBB or vbulletin.
What I concern on vbulletin is that I need to pay US$40 for one of mySQL databease(20Mb).
I'm not a software guy and I don't think our forum will have heavy traffic.
I would like to know whether I need to buy more than 1 mySQL database for my BB forum.(It will have 3 categories and each category will have 2 or 3 forums.)
Thank you in advance.

Jisung
werehere
Tue 31st Oct '00, 1:21am
You only need one database for Vbulletin.

20MB should get you around 30,000 posts I am guessing. :)
Jisung
Tue 31st Oct '00, 2:24am
Do I need a special skill to setup mySQL properly or optimize?
Thank you very much for your help.

Jisung
Skeptical
Tue 31st Oct '00, 4:53am
UBB -

Pluses
Very good support. Very good.

Bad
Lack of new features and snobby moderators.


vB -

Pluses
Very good hacks and new features

Bad
Support by vB staff is non-existent, PERIOD.
Chris Schreiber
Tue 31st Oct '00, 10:13am
Originally posted by Jisung
Do I need a special skill to setup mySQL properly or optimize?

Nope, just upload the scripts, set your database information in the config file, then run the installation script. This will create and populate the database and you're all set :)
werehere
Tue 31st Oct '00, 2:11pm
Yeah, this is about the easiest script I have ever seen to install. Much easier than the UBB even!
Jisung
Wed 1st Nov '00, 6:44am
Thank you guys!
You are great!!

Jisung
chrispadfield
Wed 1st Nov '00, 9:45am
yup it is so easy anyone can do it. You files to edit, no /usr/bin/perl lines to change no paths to set, all done for you. If you are not going to have a huge board and your host is going to charge an extra $40/month i would get a different one - that sounds far to expensive. If it is a $40 set up fee then maybe that is ok.
doron
Wed 1st Nov '00, 4:31pm
perhaps get a host that has free mysql tables?
Jisung
Thu 2nd Nov '00, 3:45am
Hi,

Because we didn't expect to buy a VB so we didn't consider mySQL thus we made a contract one hosting company.
When I realized that we better use VB, I asked price for SQL and it is 40$/year for 1 DB (20MB).
Maybe I need to move another server which provides free or cheap DB. Hope that VB can offer more easier way to migrate DB.
Anyway, I just bought VB and I installed in http://www.f2s.com free server for trial because I'm still waithng for mySQL DB from hosting company. I think I will like VB. :D
Thank you everbody for your support.

Jisung