I guess I have to weight into this. The biggest problem I am having is that with all the costs, licenses, fee's and stuff, it's starting to get real expensive, and not only don't I have the money to pay for programs that I need, it's very hard to justify the expensive when I have a small site, receive no revenue, and could use the money for more important things.
I had to make a decision, because I had to move servers last week, whether or not to keep VB, or go with another forum. Though I decided to keep VB, I was very tempted to drop it completely, because a lot of the "paid" stuff available I could find quite easily as freeware with the other software. If you don't have the money, then it's a bit fustrating. I can understand authors wanting to make money and all, but there's no "free" article system either as a alternative, and these "light" versions, well, I can get a lot better with phpbb, so that's why I'm tempted.
I have invested a lot of money in VB, but I worked it out, and it will cost me 300 plus every year just to reup everything I have already, and it's a bit hard to justify that considering I have a site with maybe 100 members (It's private site)
VB is the best, but sometimes, it gets pretty hard to justify the additional costs, let alone add to them. My next move, I'm pretty sure I will move over to another system, because I just can't afford it, and there are some things I really would like to have for my site
05-10-2006, 08:31 PM
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