Hello, I am seeking some advice from members, current or former vbulletin license holders who have had some experience with IPB and other forum suits in the past year or two?
Personally I have ran a IPB community back in early 00's, never really took much interest on the internet and have only recently taken some interest on online forums again(around 2007 - 2008), Currently I have two communities, both running vBSeo, last I remember the bigger one I think runs on a VPS the smaller one is still on a high end shared server. The smaller one of them has become more of a close personal place for me since its directed towards a specific region however its very less active / popular. So I mostly look after it myself
Anyhow, So I am just feeling the urge to switch to a different platform than vBulletin 4, I just dont feel its enough anymore and with a few mods to make it better my forum starts to slow down and opens security vulnerabilities that aren't possible to solve soon enough, I have also been put down by some security issues I have been having from the beginning of this year. things like this http://www.avgthreatlabs.com/siterep...o.nz#analytics also half of the members complaining that the forum takes them 15 minuets to load up!.... Now I have seen Xenfro but it didnt really interest me as much, I have used phpBB2 and phpBB3 before and they just dont cut it for us. So I was leaning more towards perhaps IPB and hosting it on one of my servers, but I am open to other suggestions as well. So hoping to get some input from all of you..
oh and did i give you a link to our forum? : here it is
a note to the moderators: this by no means is to invoke a fight or something thats deemed bad for business, but I am just looking for some honest advice and suggestions. I wasn't too sure where to put this and have the attention of licensed members who might have experience with both the software. So feel free to move it if you wish.
Personally I have ran a IPB community back in early 00's, never really took much interest on the internet and have only recently taken some interest on online forums again(around 2007 - 2008), Currently I have two communities, both running vBSeo, last I remember the bigger one I think runs on a VPS the smaller one is still on a high end shared server. The smaller one of them has become more of a close personal place for me since its directed towards a specific region however its very less active / popular. So I mostly look after it myself
Anyhow, So I am just feeling the urge to switch to a different platform than vBulletin 4, I just dont feel its enough anymore and with a few mods to make it better my forum starts to slow down and opens security vulnerabilities that aren't possible to solve soon enough, I have also been put down by some security issues I have been having from the beginning of this year. things like this http://www.avgthreatlabs.com/siterep...o.nz#analytics also half of the members complaining that the forum takes them 15 minuets to load up!.... Now I have seen Xenfro but it didnt really interest me as much, I have used phpBB2 and phpBB3 before and they just dont cut it for us. So I was leaning more towards perhaps IPB and hosting it on one of my servers, but I am open to other suggestions as well. So hoping to get some input from all of you..
oh and did i give you a link to our forum? : here it is
a note to the moderators: this by no means is to invoke a fight or something thats deemed bad for business, but I am just looking for some honest advice and suggestions. I wasn't too sure where to put this and have the attention of licensed members who might have experience with both the software. So feel free to move it if you wish.
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