Which version of VBulletin is best ....

[heaven]

There are so many versions of VBulletin, not sure where to start.

This is the website: Our Webpage, click on this..

Please anyone, tell me which version is best for our site.

Help, help, and how to get VBulletin?

Many thanks,

[Steve Machol]

You should always use the latest version: 3.0.7.

[cbiweb]

Follow Steve's advice. The latest version will have the best feature improvements, best security, and most support. And when a newer version comes out, get it, for the same reasons. The team is constantly working on vBulletin, and with each new version comes a better product. To use an older version is just asking for trouble down the road.

Always upgrade, and The Force will be with you.

[Quillz]

Some people prefer the 2.x series for the look and layout. However, just about anything that could be done on the 2.x series can be done even better on the 3.x series.

[Dave#]

Some people with big boards also feel that Vb3 crucifies MYSQL compared to Vb2, that is the only reason that we haven't upgraded.

[Zachery]

vB3 should actually be lighter on mysql overall.

[Scott MacVicar]

Lighter on MySQL but not on processing time in 3.0, should be much improved in 3.1 with the new caching system so we dont need to keep pulling stuff from the mysql table and running unserialize.

[Dave#]

Lighter on MySQL but not on processing time in 3.0, should be much improved in 3.1 with the new caching system so we dont need to keep pulling stuff from the mysql table and running unserialize.

That is good news.

Are we talking disk cache or memory cache?

I'd love to be able to upgrade soon.

[dynamite]

Lighter on MySQL but not on processing time in 3.0, should be much improved in 3.1 with the new caching system so we dont need to keep pulling stuff from the mysql table and running unserialize.

So Scott, how is 3.1 coming along? Is there any possibility of an official update like what was done with 3.0 since we haven't heard any news in a while.

[Scott MacVicar]

That is good news.

Are we talking disk cache or memory cache?

I'd love to be able to upgrade soon.

Either, there is a class that handles disk cache or the methods availble through Zend Extension for writing to shared memory. Though the memory systems still rely on unserialize, I'm not aware of a way to store data natively in memory.

[Dave#]

Shared memory is a whole new ballgame, it happens to be what I am working on at the moment in the context of custome Apache2 modules.

Get prepared to love the ipcs and ipcrm commands

[buro9]

I've still got a copy of 1.13 or something like that lying around from 2001 or so... I wonder how it compares to 3.0.7

[Shining Arcanine]

Either, there is a class that handles disk cache or the methods availble through Zend Extension for writing to shared memory. Though the memory systems still rely on unserialize, I'm not aware of a way to store data natively in memory.

Have you used MMCache lately?

[Scott MacVicar]

yeah thats what i meant by Zend Extension, there are numerous ones that support writing / reading to shm.

[Shining Arcanine]

yeah thats what i meant by Zend Extension, there are numerous ones that support writing / reading to shm.

Oops. I was thinking of Zend Optimizer. ^_^;;