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Weapon
April 12th, 2001, 00:15
I was just wondering what of the few bulletin boards out there is the fastest to use of your site, most reliable etc..
gyrbo
April 12th, 2001, 05:02
One that uses php is faster then perl/cgi. So my choice: phpBB
Unknownguy
April 12th, 2001, 06:20
I use an ikonboard it pretty fast if you are on a fast host.
Epgs
April 12th, 2001, 08:43
phpBB
jokaroo
April 12th, 2001, 09:15
I also use Ikonboard, since I can not find the diference in using a PHP script. I find the speed to be quite unnoticable, but then again I am not that observant.
Epgs
April 12th, 2001, 09:18
you really need to look at it on a slow connection to notice a big diff. so i have noticed phpBB is faster
jw
April 12th, 2001, 15:11
i like phorum ( http://www.phorum.org )
Cheap Bastard
April 12th, 2001, 23:20
http://www.phpbb.com
example: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB

might wanna wait for 2.0.0 though
atlas
April 13th, 2001, 00:02
Originally posted by Epgs
you really need to look at it on a slow connection to notice a big diff. so i have noticed phpBB is faster

Speed differences are more noticable on faster connections, not slower. With a faster connection you see the true speed differences -> the time it takes the server to load the pages.

-mk
LeX
April 13th, 2001, 03:33
That's not true. If you have a fast connection, everything will load real quickly and you won't really be able to tell.

But with a slow connection, everything loads slowly for you. Therefore, it's easier to tell which forum is fast and/or slow.
jvv
April 13th, 2001, 04:15
If you're willing to fork over 160$, there is no better/faster board at the moment than vBulletin ( http://www.vbulletin.com ). That's something even the people at phpBB agree on. Version 2.0 is comming up and looking very promising.

If you want a free one, I strongly recommend phpBB which has great potential and a friendly group of coders (it's open source).
Zef Hemel
April 13th, 2001, 04:27
Does anybody know about execution times? I see phpBB 2 has them between .2 and .5 secs. What about vBulletin?
Weapon
April 13th, 2001, 19:09
what if we were talking about bandwidth which one would it be now?
ace0
April 13th, 2001, 21:22
I wonder when forumco is going to be ready for more signups...not that I would use it...
sleepy
April 20th, 2001, 16:53
phorum would be nicest on bandwidth. possibly on speed also, but it simply isn't as pretty as phpBB, clearly ;)
Omari
April 21st, 2001, 06:50
i am using blazeboard right now, i love it, i like it way more than i liked ikonboard for some reason...
Scorpz
April 21st, 2001, 08:04
I'm checking out BlazeBoard a little right now.. it appears in my opinion better than Ikonboard 2.x..
iwod
April 21st, 2001, 17:23
OH my god...blazeboard.....very good indeed.....
But back to the question...
FOR THE BEST ( THE BEST ) board it has to be vbulltine. And version 2 of it would just rule..but you might be put off by the price tag....

If you want a free one. Then my suggestion is ikonboard. Ok, yes may be others board such as blazeboard is going to be good. But ikonboard 3.0 is going to be so good and of course - FREE!!!
Ikonboard is asy to set up on non windows hosted server. You might have slight problem on windows onw. Bu the support fourms over there is always a quick place to ask.

i am currently taking a deeper look over blazeboard, may be it has the potential to bit ikonboard ^_^
dony
April 22nd, 2001, 07:19
what is the url of blazeboard.
is it hosted forum or yopu can build yourself.
i didnt find download section.
and is it product of mycool?
thanks.
jw
April 22nd, 2001, 10:40
bbhacks.com is the blazeboard site...blazeboard.com will be doing hosting for the bulletin boards this summer...by the way, jwdirect is part of mycool and we plan to converge all of our services together with a few new ones this summer...so you have something to look forward to.
Zef Hemel
April 23rd, 2001, 09:37
phpBB is the fastest. vBulletin best speed/feature rating.
Xanthis
April 25th, 2001, 00:31
what is the url of blazeboard.
is it hosted forum or yopu can build yourself.
i didnt find download section.
and is it product of mycool?
thanks.



Hi,

The URL is http://www.blazeboard.com which is now merging together with http://www.MyCool.com to supply webmaster tools to start their own community. As Justin mentioned, we are merging together many services for FREE.

Alot of the features we are working on are still hush-hush, but I assure you, MyCool will boast many features other than just a board. We are beta testing the tools one at a time, so if you wish to sign up, point your browser to http://www.mycool.com and sign up.

If you are looking for the old downloadable GPL version, it's taken over at bbhacks.com, but the MyCool version is heavily optimized and faster. :)
icreation
April 25th, 2001, 00:52
[Mod Edit] Piracy is NOT allowed. You've been reported to James at vBulletin. Do NOT give out copies of vBulletin. I will not allow it [/MOD EDIT]

[Edited by rockergrrl on 04-26-2001 at 04:37 AM]
dony
April 25th, 2001, 02:19
hi.
i built vbuletine it seems to be fast enough and reliable.
the another i used is phpbb also good.
but didnt used blazeboard but thinking to use.
thanks for url.
byez.