Tutorial written by Pritesh Shah & Michael Anders
So you've finally got your hands on the shiny new vBulletin4 and you are ready to upgrade your forum. But wait! Before you upgrade – how do you test to make sure everything will work? This guide will show you how to create a vBulletin4 “Test” environment without breaking your “Live” forum.
Important Notes:
As always, please proceed at your own risk. While some of the general steps and advice are applicable to
The new vBulletin 4.0 boasts a lot of new changes such as CSS-friendly styles, multi-content search and other various new features. The biggest improvement in vBulletin 4.0, however – is well hidden under the hood and it is the actual changes to the database storage mechanism. While there are exceptions, this change improves the way vBulletin sites scale upwards to serve more visitors and more content without sacrificing performance. As a preface to my blog post, allow me to please explain its purpose.
