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**Marco van Herwaarden** · Mon 13th Feb '06, 2:19am

Welcome to vBulletin.

There is only 1 package available for purchase, there are however 2 different kinf of licenses:
- The Leased License: You purchase the right to use vBulletin for 1 year. After this year is finished you must either renew your license, or remove vBulletin from your server.
- Owned license: You buy the right to use vBulletin with no timelimit.

With both licensing models you get 1 year of updates (with the owned license you will always be able to redownload any vB version that was released while you where in your 1 year Support and any updates to it) and Support. With the owned license you can at any time buy a new year of Support of $30.

Additional you can buy:
- Professional Installation: vBulletin Staff will do a basic installation on your server for you.
- Branding Free option: Give you the right to remove the vBulletin copyright from all visible pages

vBulletin don't offer hosting. You will have to select a host yourself. The plan you will be needing will depend greatly on the forum:
- The number of visits a day
- The number of posts
- The content (a lot of images/downloads?)
You can look for some suggestions and experiences from ither members with a host in our Hosting forum.

**RattleSnake** · Mon 13th Feb '06, 4:44am

All i can say, if your forum will be HUGE, like a million posts around. Get a few gigs.

**Lineman28645** · Mon 13th Feb '06, 5:44am

Originally posted by Steve Austin

All i can say, if your forum will be HUGE, like a million posts around. Get a few gigs.

lol yes a few gigs. Well I hate to inform you, however my forum only has 130 members and we use "a few gigs".

I would suggest starting out on a shared hosting plan (just to make sure everything gets started out good). Once you have over grown a shared hosting account, move up to either a VPS or dedicated server. Once you reach the dedicated server market, things can get quite expinsive. I would suggest theplanet.com for your dedicated server needs. Do your research on your companys.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com

That is a great forum to visit to get advice on hosting.

**Reeve of Shinra** · Mon 13th Feb '06, 9:51am

Thats putting the cart before the horse as the saying goes. Any reputable hosting company will let you upgrade your plan as your site grows.

Good luck with the site, I know a topic like that will do well

**feldon23** · Mon 13th Feb '06, 10:00am

1&1 Hosting allows each MySQL database to be only 100MB. Even on their $30/month hosting plans.

**Wild Country** · Wed 15th Feb '06, 10:12am

Well, a buddy of mine runs an import racing forum and uses HostGator. They look like they have decent plans. Anyone know anything about them???

**echo_unlimited** · Wed 15th Feb '06, 1:49pm

Originally posted by Wild Country

Well, a buddy of mine runs an import racing forum and uses HostGator. They look like they have decent plans. Anyone know anything about them???

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search...earchid=518880

Hostgator Review

Negative issue with Hostgator

Hostgator review

hostgator account suspended and took $65 from me

Look at those reviews.

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**Zachery** · Wed 15th Feb '06, 2:58pm

You know that searchid's only last about 30-60 min, and most other people are not able to access them?

**feldon23** · Wed 15th Feb '06, 3:07pm

So would that be a bug report, or a feedback/suggestion?

A simple 'save this search' with all the parameters concatenated into a serpentine query URL would be much appreciated.