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Ultimate Bulletin Board

This is largely the standard message board software before Vbulletin entered the scene as a cheaper more resource friendly alternative. UBB is generally thought of as more resource intensive from a webhosting point of view in comparision to Vbulletin and it costs more.

The only real plus about UBB is that UBB.X a scaled down version of UBB is available for free to those that use webhosting plans provided by UBB which start at $21 a month as of June 18, 2003.

Most of the forums I used to visit that used UBB have switched to Vbulletin including Gethighforums a popular webmaster message forum. As a user Vbulletin provides searching features that are much much faster than UBB. This coupled with Vbulletin's active community that constantly provides tweaks and custom hacks to the program make it the better software and its cheaper.

Only those with experience with UBB that have a preference for it should consider buying it instead of Vbulletin in my opinion.

UBB comes in three formats UBB.X which is free to those who host with UBB, UBB Classic, and UBB Threads. More about each of these forms of UBB can be viewed at the the Official UBB Site..

*Also see resource links that may be useful to UBB users.