Hosting

[cstudio29]

How do you get a message board hosted by here?

[Steve Machol]

We do not provided hosting here.

[Curtis H.]

You need to get an account with a hosting provider that allows you (most do) to host your VB forum. Ones I can recommend from personal experiences in no particular order are:

www.PowerSurge.net (http://www.powersurge.net/)
www.FutureQuest.net (http://www.futurequest.net/)
www.F5hosting.com (http://www.f5hosting.com/)
www.Rochen.com (http://www.rochen.com/)

[qxh]

You must also, if you haven't already, purchace a vBulletin license.

http://www.vbulletin.com/order/

[Lurk]

Real Web Host allows you to pay monthly for a vBulletin licence. It is usefull especially if you can't pay for it all at once.

http://realwebhost.net

[HiveHost]

Real Web Host allows you to pay monthly for a vBulletin licence. It is usefull especially if you can't pay for it all at once.

http://realwebhost.net (http://realwebhost.net/)Doesn't leasing the vBulletin license go against the TOS and License agreement of vBulletin? And you'll probably end up paying the host more than you would have if you actually bought the license out right. It's probably an unsupport license as well :). Something just seems fishing about paying the host for the license....

[GangstaTJ24]

I dont even see where you can lease vb at.I was going to allow my customers to do that but didn't know if vb allowed it.

[poolking]

Doesn't leasing the vBulletin license go against the TOS and License agreement of vBulletin? And you'll probably end up paying the host more than you would have if you actually bought the license out right. It's probably an unsupport license as well :). Something just seems fishing about paying the host for the license....
Wrong,

You can purchase a leased licence for $85 that lasts for one year.

I think once the hosting company have bought the licence and use it on a valid website and only one copy of it on a website, then I don't think Jelsoft can complain.

As long as there is a seperate licence for each domain I don't see a problem how the hosting charges its customers for the use of the licence as long as the correct URL is entered into the members area for each licence the host owns.

[HiveHost]

I think vBulletin has a stipulation though that you cannot buy their licenses in bulk and then lease them out on a monthly basis to customers unless you have their explicit consent to do this. I wouldn't want my board host by someone that was doing this against the will of the software maker.

[poolking]

I think vBulletin has a stipulation though that you cannot buy their licenses in bulk and then lease them out on a monthly basis to customers unless you have their explicit consent to do this. I wouldn't want my board host by someone that was doing this against the will of the software maker. Just checked:


The Software is licensed only to you. You may not rent, lease, sublicence, sell, assign, pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose of the Software in any form, on a temporary or permanent basis, without the prior written consent of Jelsoft. And you indeed are correct.

So if this host hasn't had written consent from Jelsoft then indeed they are breaking the licence agreement and the licences could be revoked.

Back to the original poster who posted about Real Web Host, where on thier site does it mention being allowed to pay monthly for a vbulletin licence?

I see no reference to such deal.

[Lurk]

Transfer Policy: Jelsoft may, in its discretion, allow you to transfer your license to another party, providing the license:
:- has not already been transferred in the previous 12 months; and
:- was purchased more than 3 months in the past.

[HiveHost]

This still doesn't supercede the license agreement.....just allows you to transfer a license. If you are paying for the license on a monthly basis from a host then that's the same as leasing.

[Lurk]

Yeah, i read the licence agreement...

[Floris]

Real Web Host allows you to pay monthly for a vBulletin licence. It is usefull especially if you can't pay for it all at once.

http://realwebhost.net (http://realwebhost.net/)This is against the license agreement.


The Software is licensed only to you. You may not rent, lease, sublicence, sell, assign, pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose of the Software in any form, on a temporary or permanent basis, without the prior written consent of Jelsoft.

[express]

Hello guys just to give our point of view and facts to this. We set this up with the customer without talking with Vbulletin first. This we should have done no question about it. We have read the agreement and we understand it. If we had requested permission to do this first it would have been the thing to do. But we did not ,we live and learn and we must move on. In the past we would actually give the client the cash and they would purchase the license theirselves. Then we would charge a monthly bill to pay us back. We did this with clients that had been with us for over a year and clients that we knew very well.
In this case we did not do this, we have been in contact with vbulletin about this issue and we feel at this point the issue has been resolved between the parties based on email responses we received from them. That is between the two parties.
We have learned though as a company that we will need to get this request agreed to in the future with Vbulletin before doing this again.
We wish there was a different way to do this because alot of clients would love to have vbulletin but can not afford the one time payment upfront. A simple plan put in place by vbulletin for monthly pricing for some clients may help. This is up to vbulletin though not us or not anyone in this post.