Huge vBulletin Board!

[N9ne]

The official LinkinPark forum has over 40000 members!!! Some topics have up to 1000 replies!!! Think about the server load!!! I just went to the site and I was amazed at the membercount!!! I just thought I'd mention it as it is using vBulletin

[George L]

131,000+ members -> http://www.holemusic.com/soapbox/index.php
64,000+ members ->

http://forums.gtgames.com/forums/index.php

312,000+ members -> http://board.flashkit.com/board/index.php

[Joe Gronlund]

to flashkit

[N9ne]

WoW! I've seen the flashkit forum before, haven't seen the others before, I would love my board to do so well, but at the moment, with 166 members, it's just not working lol, and with only 100mySQL connections available it wouldn't work out, I can just about afford the situation I'm in right now, I could do with a few thousand members though

[George L]

well i guestimate the running costs for every 30,000 members it would probably cost you US$1000/mo to run the forum on proper hardware

so 300,000 members ~ US$10,000+/month to run

of course that's an guestimate

[XiXora]

flash kit is STILL using vB 1.1.3

[steven]

Originally posted by XiXora
flash kit is STILL using vB 1.1.3

They use a majorly hacked up version of vb. Also one of the biggest VBulletin forum that I just came accross was

http://www.dsschat.com/forum/

Registered Members: 101,688

[ethank]

Courtney Love LOVES vBulletin. Heh

[Thomas P]

Impressing, very few german boards have around ~10,000 members or maybe more... guess web-communites are more an american/uk thing.
What do you think, could this be said?

[PDT816]

Originally posted by eva2000
312,000+ members -> http://board.flashkit.com/board/index.php

that would be one heck of a member's list. I see where they have taken that button off their forums

[krs-one]

Originally posted by eva2000
well i guestimate the running costs for every 30,000 members it would probably cost you US$1000/mo to run the forum on proper hardware

so 300,000 members ~ US$10,000+/month to run

of course that's an guestimate

Of course, flashkit is owned by Internet.com so they probably have no problem paying for it.

-Vic

[DirectPixel]

hehehe...so THAT's why those 2 websites look so similar.

[JTMON]

Originally posted by krs-one


Of course, flashkit is owned by Internet.com so they probably have no problem paying for it.

-Vic

lol...good point!

[c-prompt]

Linkin Park also uses vB on their other site for the LP Members. www.lpunderground.com. I am a member there and I recommend it to any LP fans. For 25 bucks you get a tshirt, signed 8x10 by all 6 guys, patch, 2 stickers, and the old ep before they were linkin park.

[Sinecure]

Linkin Park , lol, trendwhore music at its finest