No forum software is fully secure from the onslaught of hackers and spammers, and needs to keep being updated by new modifications and plugins to safeguard against such attacks. Here are some helpful security mods for your phpBB forum.

Drupal is one of the favorites when it comes to content management. This is because it is open-source, which means that you can freely alter it any way you want. It is for this very reason that its community of active members continues to increase thereby making it robust and versatile through user contributions and ongoing development.

Maintaining a high-traffic Drupal website has its ups and downs: you get tons of visitors daily but you also get a lot of spam. As much as possible, you want to encourage interaction and respond to user comments. However, it’s difficult to this when 8 out of 10 posts are spam.

When it comes to choosing a Drupal host, webmasters are often hesistating between the two most popular hosting companies: Hostgator and GoDaddy. While both companies may promise you the best speed and uptime in the industry, truth is they perform quite differently.

WordPress 3.3, nicknamed “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, has just been launched. “Sonny” has polished up the user experience with WordPress by making improvements in the navigation, uploading and import functions.

Last week, the search engine giant Google announced that they are planning on building a new, 300,000-square-foot data center in Hong Kong. They will be investing $300 million to do so.

By doing a few tweaks and installing some modules, you can ensure that you’re maximizing Drupal’s potential for SEO and increasing your changes of going up the search engine rankings. This guide assumes that you’re starting your Drupal website from scratch.

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Among the notable features of vBulletin is the ImpEx, or Import/Export, system. This basically permits administrators using other forum software like phpBB to easily shift to vBulletin by importing data from that forum into the vBulletin forum. Here are the steps involved in transitioning from phpBB to vBulletin.