Moving from cloud to license

[Stevie]

This is some thing I have been been thinking about for a while now. Would it be better to switch and what’s involved? What sort of costs would I expect etc ?

[glennrocksvb]

It depends on what hosting provider and plan you will select. To get an idea, head over to this thread.

https://vbmods.rocks/forum/miscellaneous/web-hosting/12099-best-web-hosting-2018

[glennrocksvb]

It's recommended you get VPS or Dedicated plan. Do not get a Shared plan if you don't want your forum to be painfully slow.

[Stevie]

Thanks Glenn. To be honest I wouldn't know where to start. Would it be worth doing or am I better keeping the forum on cloud to receive the updates etc. I was thinking the forum would benefit from some of the features you can add which are not available on cloud. How difficult is it to transfer over to VPS ?

[glennrocksvb]

I recommend staying on vBCloud. vBulletin recently allowed installing Template Hooks on vBCloud. It still does not allow installing product XML and adding PHP Hooks and API Extensions but having Template Hooks is good enough to do some modifications for vBCloud. This is much better than before. But if they allowed product XML, PHP Hooks and API Extensions to vBCloud, then vBCloud would become as customizable as self-hosted version in terms of plugins/modifications.

[Nintenex]

But if they allowed product XML, PHP Hooks and API Extensions to vBCloud, then

I always thought they didn't allow it because it wasn't possible for vbcloud to handle those hooks and Extensions?

[glennrocksvb]

They recently allowed Template Hooks for vBCloud. This is a good step to making vBCloud more customizable.