I’d be interested in hearing comments comparing phpBB to vBulletin. The objective is to determine whether vBulletin is worth the relatively inexpensive licensing fee for a relatively low volume BB to be used by a police force. (IOW, a good record against hacks would be a Very Good Thing.)
Also, is there any problem with or restriction on installing vBulletin on a reseller’s customer account?
Charles
first, no issue in using vB, it is a well coded script it only because and issue when you have many highly active users, and in some respects how much you “mod” it up.
As for security vB has a better track record IMO. However adding mods just like it can hurt performance it can hurt security.
I prefer vB from user, mod, and admin standpoint.
Thanks, Stephen!
I use vbulletin too, i would perfer it to phpBB. The $160 isnt all that much even for a small forum.
The only problem I have is that some of their support team can be rather rude at times. When you ask a question they think is easy, or you ask too many questions they just stop responding all togther, at least they did that to me.
For example, a quote from one of them on one of my support tickets.
To me it just sounds rude, and snappy. But maybe its just me.
Hmmm…
I tend to respond…well, let’s just say negatively to comments like that. They wouldn’t like me very much after I replied. Even less after I called and asked to speak to whatever passes as the owner of the company.
Thanks for the advice and the heads up.
Charles
I forgot to ask this before…does anyone know whether attachments can be posted with messages in phpBB? My customer wants to put docs up that can be downloaded/viewed by others who can then comment on the docs.
I have found vBulletin much better than phpBB… I run a phpBB forums (two of them actually) and I have used vBulletin the ease of the vBulletin is at a better ease than phpBB. phpBB is less secure in my opinion than vBulletin.
But you can’t really go wrong with either though.
If you havnt already decided upon a forum…may i suggest Simple Machines - Home of SMF: Free PHP and MySQL forum software
Its way better than phpBB and beats even vB in many areas. many mods are available as well.