What got you to get vbulletin?

[ehjay]

for about nine months we ran on a forum software that we'd written ourselves, and although it was actually quite good, i'd say comparable to some older version of vB and UBB, we were about a quarter of the way done with converting it over to a php based, mysql run system..

when we decided that we can't put in the effort that they guys at vb can, and we shifted over to a vb. that was a couple months ago. and we've already gained much experience with vb, i had some previous from other sites, but none of the other admins did.

we've already had our share of DB loss, style screwups, and other general mishaps. but we're going on 700-800 members, with somewhere around 30-40k posts, and constantly growing.

for example: last month we had 20k hits a day, now it's up to 40k.. and we've gotten 400k hits this month alone!

[Brad]

A few years ago i started my site and paid for a ubb. at the time it was the best message board you could buy. Once vBulletin started begin sold we took a look at it but decided that we dident have the time to convert to a new system as of yet. Then last year my ubb 6.05 crashed, we were running 105 hacks aand had so many members online that it killed the server. they deleated us and the site went down for awhile. Then i decided to buy vbulletin. next month we open our site/forum for the frist time in nearly a year.

[Dean C]

functionality is what brought me to vb

[Sparkz]

I was made admin/lead hacker on a cland/alliance site way back, which was running a pirated version of vB. I liked it so much that when I decided I needed a board for one of my sites, I went and got an owned lisence myself.

Oh, and in case anyone is wondering, that pirated one is long gone

[Sinecure]

I always loved Bulletin Boards. Anyway, I noticed Flashkit used it and I just loved it. Anyway, I had 100 bucks sitting around the place, so I thought, "Meh, Might as well get it". The rest is history

[zachb]

I had a UBB, wasn't very satisfied, host didn't allow it after awhile, and vB was the obvious choice for me. Now I love it 10x as much I liked the UBB!

[Rose]

I was a member of a vBulletin board and loved it. So......I bought my own and started one. I love learning about the vBulletin software and the general knowledge (I had no idea 'bout servers, databases, php, etc etc prior to purchase).

Now I descriminate for vB and only (mostly only) visit vB sites than others. I hate popups.

[ethank]

I was running my site on O'Reilly Webboard, adn the load was killing the server. It was single threaded

We were loosing users because of this and so we as a site started looking at alternatives. The open nature of vBUlletin was the biggest plus. After 3 weeks hacking in the Persistent Mark Forum Read hack, to make it feature comparable to Webboard, we went live.

Other products we looked at included Panfora and Web Crossing.

[SZ|TalonKarrde]

Me? Well, I had been visiting vB sites for a long time, and had been tempted to pirate it, when I was broke. I thought about how hard it would be to make it, and decided I would save up my money.

I forgot about buying it for a while, until my birthday came up. I recieved enough money, so I decided to get an owned liscense.

I don't have many members on my forums, but thats fine with me. I like the software.

[Neo]

Late night over dosing... or maybe that it has way to many usfull functions for its own good.