Hostboards – Web Hosting Forum
Server Management / Strategy
Migrating 3.7M Users to a scalable discussion board
The Challenge
Hostboards.com was rapidly growing and their current system – vBulletin wasn’t scaling as well as they wanted. Added to this mix was the merging of another web hosting forum. Exoboosters.tech was approached to help identify a way forward that would allow their members to continue to enjoy the latest news and deals within the web hosting world.
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Registered Users
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Post Views
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Posts
Our Solution
Merging different forum databases – users and posts is never a straightforward task. Exoboosters.tech compared various alternatives and presented a set of options to the client. From this set, VanillaForums was chosen.
Our team carried out the following tasks:
The results are reflected in the numbers on this page.
