wrx1
Active member
Hello, my name is Russ and I am the site admin for MNSubaru.com. We have been "online" since 1999, but our group really started growing around 2002. In 2004 we made the jump to VB running on shared hosting. About 3 years ago we finally outgrew bluehost and made the jump to Linode which we are currently running. We are running 2 512mb nodes with APC and memcache running.
We made the jump to VB4.0 after it was released and it has been pretty much all down hill from there. I thought we would use the blogs and CMS more than we really did. We had 2 active blogs and about 5 total blogs. Our CMS was more of a portal/landing page that most people didn't even know we used for news and such. Then VB just turned into VBloat with tons of bells and whistles that I didn't use and didn't want installed.
August 1st I finally did the cutover to Xenforo. Slowly but surely I am getting everything up and running and dialed in. Currently we are just using some of the free styles from here, but in the future I plan on doing up a couple of custom themes to give the site our own feel. We did the cutover at 600k+ posts and 2600+ users. Not one problem with the VB to XF import.
I am looking for things that people like/don't like or ideas to help improve the overall feel of the site. So far the only things that I have really done is add a couple of theme options and a couple of extra add-ons (tapatalk, widget framwork, donations, seperate stickie/normal). Next up will getting a custom page setup for our supporting vendors/dealers.
Thanks for all feedback.
Russ
We made the jump to VB4.0 after it was released and it has been pretty much all down hill from there. I thought we would use the blogs and CMS more than we really did. We had 2 active blogs and about 5 total blogs. Our CMS was more of a portal/landing page that most people didn't even know we used for news and such. Then VB just turned into VBloat with tons of bells and whistles that I didn't use and didn't want installed.
August 1st I finally did the cutover to Xenforo. Slowly but surely I am getting everything up and running and dialed in. Currently we are just using some of the free styles from here, but in the future I plan on doing up a couple of custom themes to give the site our own feel. We did the cutover at 600k+ posts and 2600+ users. Not one problem with the VB to XF import.
I am looking for things that people like/don't like or ideas to help improve the overall feel of the site. So far the only things that I have really done is add a couple of theme options and a couple of extra add-ons (tapatalk, widget framwork, donations, seperate stickie/normal). Next up will getting a custom page setup for our supporting vendors/dealers.
Thanks for all feedback.
Russ