Should I buy vBulletin for my site?
 

Should I buy vBulletin for my site?

If you can afford it and it's a big project in which you'll invest time and resources, go for it.

What else, best forum soft

phpbb........

Absolutely you should

I would if the project required it!

I prefer: http://vanillaforums.org/

If you don't mind shelling out quite a bit every time you want to update sure. Also can't forget if you want to pull traffic properly you're going to need to sell off your first born and buy the SEO along with it ^_^

If you've got plans for a huge forum then VB is definitely the best load wise. Our forum sits with between 600-800 people online at any given time and the load isn't any more noticeable then if we only had a dozen people on. Just make sure if you're going for size that you have a server(s) good enough to hold it properly because it allocates almost all your ram unless modded properly. If you're thinking small scale there's plenty of other forum software that's just as good without the costs involved.

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