does vbulletin allow html pages

[DCN]

what i mean is like with ubb, like this option from ubb

"If private, you can select maximum privacy, which means that all topics are displayed dynamically, checking user identification before displaying any page, or minimum privacy, which means that topics are stored as HTML (not dynamcially created) for improved server performance, but at a security risk. "

i want my board to recreate html files instead of use php. is that possible? which one is faster when loading?

[Wayne Luke]

Everything in vBulletin is dynamic. However this is much faster than it would be in UBB because of the PHP/MYSQL backend. There are no flat files to worry about just database tables.

A good case in point is the search. Try the search here on a popular term like UBB. You will get over 2500 results in seconds. I just ran the same query and this is what it returned to draw the first page of results:
Page generated in 0.464055 seconds with 11 queries

To me that is pretty fast.

[Dragon]

There's something possibly more important, which is that search engines generally will not pick up dynamically generated pages.

[Joe]

There is a hack out there that will re-create all your forum topics in .shtml pages, I used this with my forum and i have had amazing results with it. I think it will work without any modification for v2.

I have also noticed that google has no problem indexing my php pages.

[Zef Hemel]

I read somewhere that good search engines (such as Google :D) are indexing dynamic pages, which is a very good thing I think :)

[John Harrison]

Originally posted by Zef Hemel
I read somewhere that good search engines (such as Google :D) are indexing dynamic pages, which is a very good thing I think :)

Yeah it does.
vBoard.co.uk is now listed. :)