vBulletin

[ziycon]

Is it worth the money to spend when its just for a small site?? What are the benefits over SMF?

[blacknight]

I've never used SMF for longer than I needed to achieve something ie. help someone with a specific task

Personally I love vbulletin as it comes with so many features out of the box. Version 3.7 is even more feature rich (if you want to have a peek sign up to: Technology Forums - Discuss Computers, Software, Gadgets and Technology - )

The number of extensions / modifications and hacks is incredible and unlike so many of the other php / mysql apps it has a very good security record

Personally I think it's worth it

[paul]

I have only one license at the moment, and thinking of getting a 2nd one. True it's a little expensive, but it well worth it. If you consider the costs over a longer period of time it makes more sense.


I think it is great, and with VBSeo you can really get some good SEO value out of it.

How small is the site going to be ?

[Forbairt]

Guess I'm in the same boat ... mulling over the ideas of getting some forums going ... specifically 2 (short term) ...

The license costs 160$ which is about 110€ so hmm..

Guess its my old .. "why pay when there are free alternatives" feelings

vBulletin + vBseo + any other commercial plugins I should know about ?

160$ + 149$ ... + (for a pet project its already a bit of an outlay)

Any Non-Commerical plugins ye can't live without ?

[blacknight]

Originally Posted by Forbairt

vBulletin + vBseo + any other commercial plugins I should know about ?

There are quite a few, but which ones you'd want / need would depend on what you are trying to achieve

160$ + 149$ ... + (for a pet project its already a bit of an outlay)

Originally Posted by Forbairt

Any Non-Commerical plugins ye can't live without ?

There's loads

However some of them are being superceded by VB themselves in the latest release which is currently in beta

[Forbairt]

the latest vBulleting is 2.6.8 ? or do members get access to betas ? .. (2.7 ? or 3.0 ? release)

I figure I might as well have an install to play around with .. having it on a live site will mean I'm more prone to doing something with it

Now its leased vrs ... purchased ...

Purchased ... price for two years
160 + 30 = 190 (then the third year makes it 220)
Leased ...
85 + 85 = 170 (then the third year starts to make a major loss and it becomes 255)

What is the resale value on it like ? I assume I'm allowed to sell on my purchased copy of it ? ( I think I've heard you mention getting a domain / vBulletin install before when you purchased a domain ? )

(And here I had been wondering what to do with the money on my paypal account)

[paul]

Latest version is 3.6.8. You can download the current beta, but it is not 100% supported.

You can sell a purchased license, read the TOS
Jelsoft may, at its discretion, allow you to transfer your Software license to another party, providing the license:

• has not already been transferred in the previous 12 months; and
• was purchased more than 3 months in the past.
• is an active owned license

Let me know if you need a hand setting things up.

[ziycon]

Thats another thing, all the SMF mods/addons are free where as VB is most likly pay!
I'm re-doing conspiracy.ie and going to relaunch it but trying to decide what would be my best bet forum wise, i dont want to use SMF and change down the road etc as there is a problem with moving from SMF to VB, passwords aren't brought over to VB and every user has to use the password reset function once you move from SMF to VB!

[blacknight]

Originally Posted by ziycon

Thats another thing, all the SMF mods/addons are free where as VB is most likly pay!

Err no they aren't

There are a couple of commercial plugins / addons but the majority are free

[ziycon]

Didn't know that, have you got a link to a site i can look through the mods available?