Need advice Restarting forum from scratch?

The thing is, I *never* wanted a massive forum. I already spend FAR more than I ought to be just to make it run well enough with what we do have. I'd be happier if I could spend less but that does't matter. I certainly don't want to find myself having to pay more, and a huge spurt of growth would pretty quickly put me in that position.

It could probably be half as busy again. I'd be ok with that. Over and above? No thanks.

 

I agree with you. Running busy forum would be a full time job, there's no two ways about it and server cost would rapidly start to spiral out of control. Unless your earning very good money from sponsors or whatever, bearing in mind your probably spending all your time looking after the forum not working a job bringing in any money. It would be very hard thing to do.

I never really thought about that in the beginning running forums, but later when doing so that made me quickly realize I wasn't interest in having a massive forum taking up all my time, plus costing me a small fortune to run. Just for the sake of some discussion, keep things small and cheap you can afford easy and enjoy more because of it!

 

If you've got that, if you manage to build it, then good luck to you is what I say, but it's not what I've ever wanted 9or would ever get!) out of my site.

My site is pure hobby. It's like some people go fishing, others go clay pigeon shooting - I go forumming!

 

http://www.husky-owners.com Im Marc on xenforo btw. Probably one of the first big boards to move away from it I would guess. Just converting back over to vbulletin.

 

Ah right! So you converted to XenForo, but now your converting back to vBulletin again. How comes, and which version 3 or 4?

 

I believe he's going to vB4.

It's an interesting move. I think 4.1.12's a very impressive release that has got people looking at vBulletin again.

I know it's old code but actually, most people don't really care about that to be honest, it just needs to work. Which it does.

 

Version 4 - Reason for converting back to vbulletin is simple really. Dont like the going ons at xenforo and lost my confidence in it. Also need the featureset that is available in vbulletin.

Cheers . Thought up the idea of a status page a couple of days beforehand and one of my admin grabbed the idea and ran with it LOL . Feel free to gimme a shout if you want it at any point. Would be more than happy to provide it to you save you writing one yourself.