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Im getting to the point where my 3.8.6 VBulletin forum is just getting long in the tooth and falling behind the times in terms of technology and features and reliability and security in terms of the latest PHP, database, etc, etc.
Im thinking of moving from hosting the site myself which I have done for the last 20 years and moving to the cloud to let someone else do the heavy lifting and allow me to work on promoting and growing the site with the additional time. I kept it on 3.8.6 because I installed a version of VBAdvanced and GARS at a time when VBulletin was not really mature enough to be used as a CMS type of site. While there are still some limitations I find with VB5+ to do some of the things I want, I think its a good "next step" for the next year or two until I come up with something else of VB grows in functionality. And I kind of like the idea of no longer having to worry about the site security, uptime, backups, and doing updates -- not being great at coding and PHP these updates always frightened me as there were times they didnt always work and finding the solution to a broken database or site was terrifying. I just dont need this hassle anymore.
My site has:
Threads: 27,636, Posts: 516,420, Members: 3,619, and maybe 30 or so forums/subforums.
Can VB migrate the DB for me if you choose the Cloud? This is really the impasse for me as Im not technologically savvy enough to pull it off myself, though I have all the database IPs and credantials to do it. Having to go in and do some manual setup of theme styling and options and masthead work would not be a huge problem on my end.
My other issue is since I installed GARs as a pseudo "article" posting tool before VB really had such a thing, I have hundreds of articles posted to a particular forum. I dont need the GARs styling, but I would sure like to dump this forum info into a new forum on the cloud site -- even if its just a newly named forum or blog or article retention area.
Anyway, some feedback and direction would be appreciated. I really need to do something soon because my current ISP is running me on a legacy PHP version just to keep 3.8.6 from cracking but sooner or later the tech will simply demand otherwise.
Im getting to the point where my 3.8.6 VBulletin forum is just getting long in the tooth and falling behind the times in terms of technology and features and reliability and security in terms of the latest PHP, database, etc, etc.
Im thinking of moving from hosting the site myself which I have done for the last 20 years and moving to the cloud to let someone else do the heavy lifting and allow me to work on promoting and growing the site with the additional time. I kept it on 3.8.6 because I installed a version of VBAdvanced and GARS at a time when VBulletin was not really mature enough to be used as a CMS type of site. While there are still some limitations I find with VB5+ to do some of the things I want, I think its a good "next step" for the next year or two until I come up with something else of VB grows in functionality. And I kind of like the idea of no longer having to worry about the site security, uptime, backups, and doing updates -- not being great at coding and PHP these updates always frightened me as there were times they didnt always work and finding the solution to a broken database or site was terrifying. I just dont need this hassle anymore.
My site has:
Threads: 27,636, Posts: 516,420, Members: 3,619, and maybe 30 or so forums/subforums.
Can VB migrate the DB for me if you choose the Cloud? This is really the impasse for me as Im not technologically savvy enough to pull it off myself, though I have all the database IPs and credantials to do it. Having to go in and do some manual setup of theme styling and options and masthead work would not be a huge problem on my end.
My other issue is since I installed GARs as a pseudo "article" posting tool before VB really had such a thing, I have hundreds of articles posted to a particular forum. I dont need the GARs styling, but I would sure like to dump this forum info into a new forum on the cloud site -- even if its just a newly named forum or blog or article retention area.
Anyway, some feedback and direction would be appreciated. I really need to do something soon because my current ISP is running me on a legacy PHP version just to keep 3.8.6 from cracking but sooner or later the tech will simply demand otherwise.
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