Creating a Forum for My Work: VBulletin & Bandwidth Considerations

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Creating a forum for workplace communication in the auto industry can be effectively achieved using vBulletin, a commercial software priced around $200. While vBulletin is a popular choice, there are free alternatives like phpBB that are widely used due to their affordability and ease of hosting, typically costing $5-10 per month. Bandwidth considerations are crucial, as a residential cable connection may struggle with high traffic volumes, potentially leading to performance issues. Additionally, many residential connections have dynamic IP addresses, complicating the setup for consistent access. Overall, careful planning is needed to ensure the forum can handle the expected user load and connectivity requirements.
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I am interested in creating a forum for people at my work. My intent is for it to be used as a clearing house for information during these turbulent times in the auto industry.

I am not sure these questions belong here and I apologize if they do not.

I know that this forum uses vbulletin. It is a commercial software package only available for purchase, correct?

Has the forum always used vbulletin or have others been tried?

It it hosted on a commercial server?

I understand that PF volume is unique but how much bandwidth is typically used? Could it be supported with a residential cable connection?
 
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vbulletin (www.vbulletin.com) is around $200
There are a lot of free forum software packages. phpBB is probably the most common just because php is well known and lots of companies host it. Hosted php sites are only around $5-10/month

I'm guessing PF would max out a domestic connection!
Some companies block incoming http to a domestic connection and you normally have a dynamic IP address so you would have to do some extra work to point a DNS name at it.
 

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