Hai DP users I have decided to start a forum I dont have basic knowledge for doing it Can any one answer my questions Here are my questions 1) Where to buy, I saw in our forum like vbulletin or something but i did not understand 2) If I build a forum with some money, can I get it back 3) What are the all ways in which forums earn money 4) How to protect our forum from hackers and all that 5) If we build a forum, is there any need to be 24 hrs online like not only me If I watch it for 8hrs or something and friends watch it for remaining hours 6) Is there any way that forums earn money without ads like digital point only keeps one ad at the top right corner but the revenue is so much good Please reply me
1) vBulletin.com costs, PHPbb is free. 2) Possibly 3) memberships, ads, links, products 4) dont give out your password. 5) No, just a few hours 6) You can do it however you want
vbulletin doesn't cost that much, both vb and phpbb are secure as a default setup as with any script, the more you modify it, the more you open it up to exploits...
You can PM me for long term help also. And it would be better for you,if you can go for vBulletin ,but its not free. You can also go for MYBB,which is 99% same as vBulletin,but its TOTALLY FREE!!
MyBB is a lot better than PHPBB, much more secure... PHPBB is and always has been a security exploit waiting to happen.