One that has the easiest use and can handle high traffic without causing the server to crash. I am looking for something also that allows you to keep the site, you just pay if anything one time fee or each year. Some of these are charging monthly and they close your site if you miss a payment. I am looking for a place where I can buy a social media network program that I can keep to use for my site and blog. Are any of these good? or should I just hire a freelancer from sites like elance, guru, rentcorder.com to make me a custom site for a affordable price if possible? dzoic.com phpfox.com socialengine.net saritasa.com iscripts.com socialgo.com onesite.com ning.com kickapps.com Wall.fm grou.ps
There are a few good social network scripts around. Actually 3 well known and solid. phpFox - http://www.phpfox.com (the best of the 3) Social Engine - http://www.socialengine.net Jomsocial - http://www.jomsocial.com (this one is a Joomla component)
Most know Drupal as one of the more popular open source content management systems available and Dolphin, from Boonex, is a popular free community-building application that is being used for a number of dating sites.So i believe they both are good
I'm using Dolphin 7 (Boonex) for all my chat and dating sites and the script is working great. One of my site was averaging over 500 new members a day for quite a while, and the script held up. I also have a few Social Engine scripts that are doing okay. I would definitely check out these two scripts and see what you think.
Tried buddypress.. seems like still need a lot of customization to get what I want. btw, how's phpfox licensing? Can you create multiple sites using a single license?
I think the two best options today are SocialEngine and Buddypress. SocialEngine is the best out-of-the-box script (PHPFox coding isn't as clean as SE). However, if you know a little bit of HTML and CSS, I think Buddypress can surpass anything out there because customization is limitless. Also, with the new wave of energy and work going into Buddypress right now, I think it will rise to the top with little competition within a year or two - especially considering how Wordpress is beginning to go viral as far as popularity. My advice: if you want a site that is perfectly customized to your every need, go to W3C School online (it's free) and spend an hour a day for a week getting a handle on HTML and CSS, and then go with Buddypress. Even out-of-the-box it is right up there with SE, but it's basically free (besides a little for your hosting and some relatively inexpensive plugins). SE4 (SocialEngine) is $299 just to download, and you'll need a few hundred more for some over-priced plugins, as well as hosting. If money is not a big issue, and you don't want to learn any coding, SE (SocialEngine) is a great script. Anyway, that's my two cents.