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  1. 02-02-2006, 21:47 #1
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    Hello,

    We have seen many customers ask for these forums to be upgraded to Vbulletin what do you think?

    3 Days poll majority vote will win

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  2. 02-02-2006, 23:17 #2
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    There's no need to waste that kind of money for a small message board like this. A new skin would be enough to make this place look a lot better.

    How about a new contest, design a phpBB skin and win a years hosting?
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  3. 03-02-2006, 17:17 #3
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    No need i like this one.
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  4. 13-09-2006, 22:38 #4
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    Job well done on the VB upgrade , its much more professional, easy to use and its defiantly industry standard, nice one rob
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  5. 01-10-2006, 12:01 #5
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    more professional and secure, i agree. some people have been saying that phpbb is hacked easily, if you don't use the proper security modifications
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  6. 01-10-2006, 13:24 #6
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    PHPBB can be injected very easily and you need to keep on upgrading version of phpbb forum every other month to make sure that you have all the security tweaks updated. When you have a forum successfully running and good number of posts coming regularly then you need to ensure uptime and security for your forum.

    VBulletin is a reliable forum software and most important feature of vbulletin is the automatic notifications of new threads and posts. We were fidning it difficult to make out if any new posts were added in other sections of forum when we had phpbb. Many customers never got reply for 2 - 3 days and that was making our support look bad.

    Now we get notifications of all new threads and posts on our helpdesk and one of our staff members can easily jump into the forum to reply any new threads or posts.
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  7. 01-10-2006, 13:52 #7
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    thats good. fast reliable suport is someting that every webmaster looks for. $185 for vbulletin is a pretty good investment in general for a hosting company.
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  8. 23-12-2006, 13:27 #8
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    i think if you were wanting the website hosting to grow you made the right choise upgrading because its a much more advanced system and looks more professional. and think this website hosting is going so you made the right choise mate

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  9. 16-02-2007, 16:26 #9
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    Well its in Vb now

    Last time I had to purchase Vb I thikn it was £120 which for a large company based BBS is nothing but if you rtalking about a small board then its not worth the justification.
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  10. 16-02-2007, 20:35 #10
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    Thats true, but if you are looking to make the forum successful by answering threads before people logout then its better to use vbulletin.

    On phpbb we were replying next day and people never replied back to those threads. Loosing some bucks for this important feature is better than creating wrong impression on potential customers.
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    I think you've made the right decision as there isn't a better forum software than vBulletin, just my opinion
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  12. 07-06-2007, 12:23 #12
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    why not smf one of the best I have used, also invision...
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    Quote Originally Posted by gordo View Post
    why not smf one of the best I have used, also invision...
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    For what its worth I think it was a very good decision upgrading to vBulletin .
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    you have to pay for vBulletin dont you ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ste_ View Post
    you have to pay for vBulletin dont you ?
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    You do have to pay for vBulletin but it is definitely worth it!
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    I agree!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joy View Post
    I agree!

    I own two vB licences.
    There we go, further proof! From a users point of view I find it one of the best forum software to use.
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