Hey guys i need your help i want to install a vbulletin forum on my site , now i have the domain name which is registered with godaddy but referring back to my hosting at discountasp . i am wondering if it is possible to actually host the forum on godaddy and link to my subdomain on discount asp for http://forum.discount.com . so i would have my main page being hosted at discountasp and my forum at godaddy .
You have hosting at GoDaddy or just domain registration? I don't know about vBulletin specifically, but from what I've heard about GoDaddy's hosting - and especially its MySQL servers - you might have trouble with it there if your forum becomes busy. But if you have hosting there it's worth a try. It's expensive to "try" vBulletin though, since there is no free or test version.
Hey Mjp , i have purchased a domain name from godaddy and had a hosting on godaddy but i moved to discountasp and now my domain name is referred to discountasp hosting . But i need a forum on my site the hosting here doesn't provide a mysql database do you have any ideas about what should i do . about vbulletin yes i know the licence i think is about 120$ if i remember right
vBulletin forum is $195 now. The only option you have for vBulletin here is to configure it to use a remote database. That's easy, but again, you need a MySQL database somewhere, and I'm not sure how performance would be affected running it that way. This thing performs a lot of db queries every time you load a page. If it has to wait for those queries to come back via the internet (rather than from a database server in the same room or on the same server), it might be kind of sluggish.
Cool update. Site looks really great now Thanks. Vbulletin is very good for forums, its one of the best softwares out there.
