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IPB or vB

IPB or vB

  • IPB

    Votes: 21 47.7%

  • vB

    Votes: 23 52.3%
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{Psycho}

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How many of you use vB and how many IPB

I am really having a bad time with IPB now ( Eating too much CPU and memory The MySQL is always fucked up )

I am using IPB 3.1.4

Cant really run any other site on same server the IPB is installed in .. spending so much on VPS without making a single dine
 
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I've been using vBulletin since 2007, and always liked it. It has its good sides, and bad sides. For example, IPB is far more better when it comes to the user profiles, galleries, reputation system, its default style is great. If you have any girls on your forum, many of them would prefer IPB over vBulletin.

vBulletin is kinda simple, it always depends on what kind of forum do you own. Is it a community, or just a "links dumpster". If it is, you can start using vBulletin. But if you do own a forum with members who like to chat, post their pictures, etc. Stick to the IPB, as you don't have to do a single thing with the design, and you don't need to remove anything. So pretty much IPB doesn't need require removing of unnecessary things while vBulletin does require. As it has bunch of unnecessary things, at least I spend 10-15 minutes after vBulletin installation removing things that I don't need.
 
IPB is more easily customizable while vB is harder to manage. However, IPB starts to have issues when the forum grows, I had restarted my forum which had 25k members cause IPB was causing it to lag like hell. I have never had this problem with vB but vB4 is something that many don't like so that's the only bad point 3.8.4 has stopped development so you won't get anything new.
 
Problem is " I am really having a bad time with IPB now ( Eating too much CPU and memory The MySQL is always fucked up ) "

My forum has abt 20K members + 1.2 million posts

Is there any good coder that can help me with fixing IPB problems

1. My search dont work
2. Coded links always breaks in 2/3 lines .. i was once banned from katz bcos of this
3. Few other problems
 
i got suspended from my host yesterday as i upgraded to ipb 3.1.4 one week ago had like 100-150 guest almost was on semi-dedicated well i already considered switching back to 3.0.5 one week before upgrade i made a backup,i think 3.1 series are more resource hungry :S
 
what ever you like more... but i would go with VB... because it here already for many years... and more security holes are fixed.
 
House_maniac said:
i got suspended from my host yesterday as i upgraded to ipb 3.1.4 one week ago had like 100-150 guest almost was on semi-dedicated well i already considered switching back to 3.0.5 one week before upgrade i made a backup,i think 3.1 series are more resource hungry :S
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new version comes with lots of feature thats why its consume lots of resource :( old is gold :D
 
House_maniac said:
i got suspended from my host yesterday as i upgraded to ipb 3.1.4 one week ago had like 100-150 guest almost was on semi-dedicated well i already considered switching back to 3.0.5 one week before upgrade i made a backup,i think 3.1 series are more resource hungry :S
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I think semi-dedicated is the most useless piece of crap. Might as well use shared. They demand the same small footprints for cpu/memory as shared and cost way more.

Yes 64meg instead of 32meg. But as far as cpu unless you left everything default it will use more cpu trying to give you increased performance. You should not use any of the social functions built in if you are having resource problems.

If you are paying for semi-dedi and can run a vps switch you will be happier.
 
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ItsmYarD said:
IPB is more easily customizable while vB is harder to manage. However, IPB starts to have issues when the forum grows, I had restarted my forum which had 25k members cause IPB was causing it to lag like hell. I have never had this problem with vB but vB4 is something that many don't like so that's the only bad point 3.8.4 has stopped development so you won't get anything new.
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We all know you have no clue what your talking about. :s

When its comes to customization vB > All. Whats easier then just uploading an .xml file?
 
{Psycho} said:
Is there a way to downgrade from 3.1.4 back to 3.0.5 ??

Any IPB expert here ??

Regards
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Yes you can but it would require going through the database upgrades from 3.05 and reverting them. Removing all current 3.14 skins and mods. Rename the old forum folder and just copying the 3.05 files to a new folder.

Alsways backupfiles and database before doing anything.
 
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