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    Populating news on portal?

    I signed up recently for one month of the Invision low-end cloud plan for evaluation purposes. By using the Pages component along with the ability to manually promote items via the "Our Picks" option, I was able to set up my Home page so there were some forum items that contained image and text...
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    Which hosting provider would you recommend, or warn against?

    I second the recommendation to use eva2000's CentMin Mod if going the VPS route. I was a System Manager for most of my IT career, including Linux management for the last few years, before retiring a few years ago, but I didn't want to have to bother with various administration tasks if I were...
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    Which hosting provider would you recommend, or warn against?

    I recommend Ramnode. Their Virtual Dedicated Servers (VDS) offer dedicated processor core(s), and quite a lot of memory/disk space at various price points. They are unmanaged, however. I have found their support to be excellent.
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    Snog's Social Groups for XenForo 2.x Add-On vs IPS Clubs

    Thanks, Matt C. I have looked at Snog's web site to see how his addon works, but I'd like to see site(s) that have more groups configured. Can anyone who is using Snog's Social Groups for XenForo 2.x with a fair number of groups post a link to their site so I can take a look? Thanks
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    Snog's Social Groups for XenForo 2.x Add-On vs IPS Clubs

    I am trying to decide between Invision IPS and Xenforo, and I am leaning more towards Xenforo, but one aspect of IPS that I am very interested in is their Clubs feature. It comes bundled with the Core/Forums products and seems to be tightly integrated from demos that I have done. Does anyone use...
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    Benefits for subscribing members

    Thanks. I'll take a look at the link you provided.
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    Benefits for subscribing members

    I am wondering what people configure in Xenforo for members who have purchased a subscription of some sort. In the Demo I am running, I see there are a few things that can be tweaked in Group Privileges, such as various settings for the signature, but I'm wondering with Xenforo what other...
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