[Colin F]

Originally Posted by shortbus1662

I currently own around 10 ubbthreads licenses. They are going in a different direction with their product and I am not happy with it. I believe in the beginning I should have used VB, however that is spilled milk...

Now, I am at a crossroads. I have to either buy VB, keep threads, or switch to something like fusionbb, which is new. I like fusionbb because I know one of the guys who owns it, and it's going the direction I'd like to see, plus, he installed all the mods/hacks on my current sites.

My question is really, what cost am I looking at?

I have a heavily hacked forum, and all of the forums I have, are networked together because they use the same database. However, not all of them are on the same server. This has caused a slight problem regarding images being stored locally, but I am not too concerned about that.

What I am concerned about, is the cost of reimplementing all of these hacks/mods back into my forums if I switch to VB. Add that to the cost of the licenses, and it's a TON of money.

The one thing I do like, is that the hacks all already exist. That is the big attraction to VB over Fusion, which isn't even in Beta yet. I'm not knowledgeable enough to implement them on my own, and if I'm looking at 60 bucks an hour for a mod, times let's say 10 mods, times 10 sites, then that answers the question.

Any advice would be appreciated. This is a business site, and my decision is pretty critical as my entire site runs off threads.

Hi, and welcome to vBulletin.org

Just some random thoughts I had while reading your thread:

• vBulletin has five full time developers. Developing vBulletin is their job. Additionally, they have around over eight support people. Support Tickets are generally answered within an hour.
  
  I'm not sure how that would compare against your friends forum
• vBulletin in its latest version has tons of features. A lot of the features you would be installing on another forum software are standard features in vBulletin, meaning no problems with installing the modifications or updating the software.
  
  If you still need any additional modifications, we have vBulletin.org, where you can either find the modification you're looking for (if it's already been made), post a modification request and hope someone makes it, or post a service request, which means you are willing to pay for the modification.
• If you buy all 10 licenses together, you'll only pay US$ 730. If you buy 11 licenses together, the cost will only be US$ 737
• vBulletin has hardly any security leaks. The only two holes I can remember were fixed within 24 hours and the patch posted.
  
  This is probably an important point for you, as you mention that you're running a business site
• I don't know about others, but US$ 60 an hour seems like a lot to me for installing modifications

I hope that helped you out, if you have any other questions, or questions I didn't answer yet, feel free to ask

Oh yes and because I'm interested, what kind of modifications are you planning to install?