Why is VBB so expensive??

[Dalius]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by HELP
Im ghey for VB for free,

But I am going to buy the licenced one, because i dont want to get sued 100 times the price of the damn product

[JamesUS]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by DrkFusion
how much does da liscense cost..199$ for VB right?

You guys talk as if 200$ is just nothing, its still a fare bit of money. I live in canada and that is $345.00 this is still expensive. Most of you are probbaly 30 years old lol.
VB is expensive, and so is all the other boards. Atleast YaBB and IkonBoard, and PhpBB understand, and give there product out for free. They will probably soon start charging money too, but little by little, there coming to be recognized as good BBS, Ikonboard is already one of the most used, and better ones.

HA, most of those enetertainment sites which use VB are all pirated.

[Stretchr]

There are a lot of boards out there and it's great to have so many choices. In the end it comes down to value and VB is still a great value. If you don't agree, you can always exercise one of the other choices. Great product!

[Admin]

The thing with free BBS is, you will never (read my lips: never!) get the same support you get from companies you paid for. I don't think I even need to explain this obvious fact, do I?

[Stretchr]

WOW! I watched you say that and never even saw your lips move!


Yeah, something the other boards don't have is the kind of participation and resources that are on VB.com and here. That's an awful lot of bang for your buck.

[Admin]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Stretchr
WOW! I watched you say that and never even saw your lips move!

[Stretchr]

Just complimenting you on another skill you've shown us.

[newvbuser]

Hello all what's the main difference between leased and owned license? Is there any drawback in purchasing a leased license for one year?

BTw what is the policy regarding changing color of the vBulletin copyright information posted below each message window? UBB has an option in the style setting where the moderator could set the color to match the background color so that it is not intrusive and allows webmasters to highlight their own copyright information.

Thanks in adv!

[voogru]

UBB:

Slow, Resource Hogging, Looks Not to many h4x , And its Only 200+ oh and i think thats for a ONE YEAR license


vB:

Fast MySQL Database, Lots of stuff to do with making it look MUCH nicer, Lots of h4x, 80 Bucks for a 1 year license, 160 to use it forever.

you can do whatever u want with ure money, but id go with vB over UBB any day.

[SaintDog]

Well after being a user of many of the free boards and UBB, I have to say vBulletin has paid off, even though I have not all the way figured out how I want it to look - I am working towards something nice and different.

As FireFly said, you will never get the support you get from a paid product over at one of the free boards websites. They may act like it but I do not feel that those working on the free boards care whether or not it is complete, popular, or if you have a problem installing it, after all, it is free, what all do you expect? They do work on the boards, but do you see too many changes that make a difference from version-to-version? I sure don't.

I will take iKonboard for instance, sure it hit it off with the incorportation of MySQL into the board, but the fact is, it is still CGI based and it is still slow and a resource hog (now more then ever, imo). Also, not that I want to get into a big argument over it, but more problems go on over at Jarvis/iKonboard than you know about, enough said.

Other boards such as phpBB and XMB are great boards to an extent, but they are a bit buggy. The last release of XMB that came out had a huge security leak in it to where you could get the database information (username, password, db-name, location, ect) right on the board just by entering a string into the URL. I believe it has been fixed, but it took about a month, who knows what happened during that time .

Down to the ever pop...uhh....UBB - Sure, it (at some times) can look nice, but at what cost? Even more stress on the server and slower loading. Flat-file based boards can not compete with SQL bases ones, especially ones with SQL/PHP. Now UBB has OpenTopic which unless you are rich, is crap, on a crap server. It is basically UBB being run on Oracle, not much of a difference, still slow. Onto UBBThreads, well they decided to make, well buy and re-code a small bit of an already made board (used to be WWWThreads). It is PHP/MySQL based, yet it is more expensive and InfoPops support is horrible. I think I e-mailed them for support and they got back to me about 2-3 weeks later (is this really support??).

Anyway, the bottom line is, vBulletin is not expensive considering the already mentioned:

- Support
- Features
- Ability to edit almost everything
- A great deal of hacks/addons
- Friendly staff
- Speed!
- ect.

It is the best, of course I know opinions differ, but if you do not like vBulletin you don't need to be here (of course, if you are planning on getting it, stick around ).

Ok, I have typed enough