Not exactly.
Several things were accomplished but that's bye-the-bye. The main thing we found out, as suspected, is that vBulletin (the current forum software) has no real future and we need to make other plans. It's OK for now but this forum will eventually have 100 million posts and several million members, and vB will not be able to cope with that. We want to run Nginx server app as it's the best (instead of Apache) but we now know our current install of vBulletin won't run on Nginx.
We've been thinking about a move to the most capable modern forum software, XenForo, and this exercise has made that proposition more attractive. XenForo is a fork of vB, developed by the original coders who left when vB was bought out. They completely rewrote the code in a more modern form and incorporated the improvements that others had made to vB with vital plugins such as vbSEO. Basically XenForo is vB done right. It's now two years old so it's mature enough to use.
Our current vB install is fine for now, but beginning to show its age - the code is awful by today's standards. We now know which way we'll be going: XenForo + Nginx, and that was just an option a month ago.
Several things were accomplished but that's bye-the-bye. The main thing we found out, as suspected, is that vBulletin (the current forum software) has no real future and we need to make other plans. It's OK for now but this forum will eventually have 100 million posts and several million members, and vB will not be able to cope with that. We want to run Nginx server app as it's the best (instead of Apache) but we now know our current install of vBulletin won't run on Nginx.
We've been thinking about a move to the most capable modern forum software, XenForo, and this exercise has made that proposition more attractive. XenForo is a fork of vB, developed by the original coders who left when vB was bought out. They completely rewrote the code in a more modern form and incorporated the improvements that others had made to vB with vital plugins such as vbSEO. Basically XenForo is vB done right. It's now two years old so it's mature enough to use.
Our current vB install is fine for now, but beginning to show its age - the code is awful by today's standards. We now know which way we'll be going: XenForo + Nginx, and that was just an option a month ago.
