Shared with 50+ users online?

[vivebeauty]

Is it true that most webhosts will kick you off if you have a vbulletin forum which is on a shared server that has around 50 or more members online at the same time?

I'm a bit of a newbie...

[vivebeauty]

We're going to have an achive section with links that will re-direct to the old proboards forum.

I have the same size forum as you....the best thing to do in order to convince your members...

[vivebeauty]

Yeah....and if that ever happens I guess I could just manually add the proboards post count again onto each member's vB account....would take some time but it's not impossible to do....

[vivebeauty]

Rob,

My forum is currently on proboards and even though we're not able to convert our forum over, we're still going ahead with vBulletin because it offers us so much more features and it's...

[vivebeauty]

I'm new....so I need a little advice...

I'm about to buy vBulletin so we can run our forum on it instead of what we're already using...and I have to decide on a host, but I have no idea what...

[vivebeauty]

With vBulletin is it possible to alter/spoof member post counts, so it reflects their post count from an old forum, a forum that unfortunently cannot be imported?

When each member signs...

[vivebeauty]

Thanks everyone, I appreciate your help!

[vivebeauty]

Thanks Zachery.

I'll just have to settle with my only options of just creating a link to the old forum....or manually re-creating each of the 3,000 posts hehe...I guess I could perhaps just...

[vivebeauty]

I was just reading through this whole section of the forum and came across this post....would I be able to do something like this with proboards.com too like how it is done with EZboard with a "harvester...

[vivebeauty]

Oh good thinking!

Is it possible to put an extra link down the bottom next to where it says "archive" so that we can have a "old forum archive" link as well? I don't...

[vivebeauty]

Thanks Colin for breaking the bad news. Such a shame. We really would love vBulletin, it's so much better....I'll have to see if everyone is willing to sacrafice our old forum and start fresh.

[vivebeauty]

I'm thinking of buying vBulletin, but would like to convert/import a forum that I already run over on www.proboards.com

Is this possible to do??

I'm scared that...