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Christy
January 28th, 2001, 13:33
but what about Ikonbord? Can I use an Ikonboard on Virtual Ave?
syanet
January 28th, 2001, 13:53
I had one there with no problem, but I hear they usually delete them as well.
Nick
January 28th, 2001, 15:05
HyperMart will run your iB. I ran a UBB on there for over a year and never had any complaints from them. I've had an iB on there for about 4 months now.
BiteTheBugByte
January 28th, 2001, 15:26
Yeah, but Hypermart has got an ugly PopUp though :(
laurie
January 28th, 2001, 15:39
Hypermart and VirtualAve are the same company.

If you choose to embed the banners using the code they give you the popups will not appear and embeded banners are no where near as annoying.
Nick
January 28th, 2001, 18:28
Originally posted by laurie
Hypermart and VirtualAve are the same company.


Not really. Just owned by the smae people. HMart is by far better.
laurie
January 28th, 2001, 18:32
Originally posted by Nick
Not really. Just owned by the smae people. HMart is by far better. [/B]

What makes you say that?
The features seem the same. Speed seems about the same. The adverts look the same.
coolguy23
January 28th, 2001, 21:02
try http://www.netfirms.com they give you 25 megs and just what you need to an iB...alltho they have a banner on top of every site, they are one of the fastest hosts i have ever seen!!!
Nick
January 29th, 2001, 01:15
Originally posted by laurie
What makes you say that?
The features seem the same. Speed seems about the same. The adverts look the same.

Hypermart is more flexible, they're [crappy] support is still better than VA's and at least the sites they list for help are the right ones. When the Go2 took over VA they slapped the HMart pages on VA and since they're mostly catered to HMart they don't work. For example, auto-cgi formmail is posted on VA but only works on HMart. What's up with that?
sparkfan12
January 29th, 2001, 19:58
as a frequent visitor of the iB boards, I've heard stories about hypermart claiming IB takes up too much resources and deletes them
Coolin
January 29th, 2001, 22:21
IkonBoard takes up much more resources when compared with UBB. Knowing this, VirtualAve/Hypermart would probably take off these boards.
syanet
January 29th, 2001, 22:25
Ikonboard actually takes alot less resources then UBB.
Coolin
January 29th, 2001, 22:28
Strange, Matt (the creator of iB) posted on the YaBB forums on how his message board was inefficient when compared with UBB. He said that this was what you get when you get something free.
syanet
January 29th, 2001, 23:03
Sure he wasn't talking about YaBB :)? I'm almost certain Ikonboard uses less resources. I'll have to ask him.
Coolin
January 29th, 2001, 23:33
He was talking about IkonBoard, I'm sure about that.
Nick
January 30th, 2001, 08:11
Originally posted by Coolin
Strange, Matt (the creator of iB) posted on the YaBB forums on how his message board was inefficient when compared with UBB.

While I think that UBB is a great board as far as features go, I doubt there is a board that is less efficient than it.
laurie
January 30th, 2001, 10:24
Yup, UBB supposingly uses a lot of CPU power.
Technics
January 30th, 2001, 11:32
the board sucks and uses far too much cpu. You would think after all the complaints about it being a resource hog they would try make it lighter on the server.
laurie
January 30th, 2001, 13:51
Thing is most of the users and webmasters wont complain as they just rent the server space for $10/month.

They, like me, have no real idea on what resources the UBB is actually using.
Coolin
January 31st, 2001, 00:41
Ikonboard uses tons of CPU power. So Virtualave may think about not allowing those either.
laurie
January 31st, 2001, 16:21
Originally posted by coolguy23
try http://www.netfirms.com they give you 25 megs and just what you need to an iB...alltho they have a banner on top of every site, they are one of the fastest hosts i have ever seen!!!

When I tried a couple of days ago it was only reasonable speed.

Just tried again and it's about as fast as sites in the US get (50kb/s) - Not bad for a FWP.
jobesoft
February 2nd, 2001, 09:02
When I mailed Virtualave Support i got answer from Hypermart Support. They are definitly the same.
Coolin
February 2nd, 2001, 12:55
Yep, owned by the same company.
dreamspinner3
February 20th, 2001, 20:13
What is a UBB or an Ikonboard?
coolguy23
February 20th, 2001, 20:28
Originally posted by laurie

Originally posted by coolguy23
try http://www.netfirms.com they give you 25 megs and just what you need to an iB...alltho they have a banner on top of every site, they are one of the fastest hosts i have ever seen!!!

When I tried a couple of days ago it was only reasonable speed.

Just tried again and it's about as fast as sites in the US get (50kb/s) - Not bad for a FWP.



are you crazy 50kb/s that's slow i usually get over 200kb/s on my cable modem on their server...i think they are the fastest...and i live in canada
Coolin
February 20th, 2001, 21:48
Originally posted by dreamspinner3
What is a UBB or an Ikonboard? They're forum software. This message board is an example of a forum. A forum is basically a community where users post and share information.