I am currently seeking someone who has an extra vBulletin license available that would allow me to use it for temporary testing in a private environment.

The purpose of this testing is to trial vBulletin against an optimized group of settings on an Apache 2, MySQL 5 and PHP 5 configuration with further optimizations.

The testing period will last approx. 1 week, after which the copy will be removed from our server and deleted from our work environment.

If anyone has an extra copy available they would allow to be used for this purpose, we will gladly compensate with a free hosting account offering 1GB of disk space and 25GB's of bandwidth per month.


To make clear, I am not looking to purchase a copy of vBulletin as we do not need it any longer than to run the tests and checks. I am also not looking for pirated or warez/nulled copies.



Thanks in advance to anyone that is able to donate their time and vBulletin license temporarily to this cause .

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Isn't it possible to just run the experiment on a backup forum from a current vbulletin owner?

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Or you could ask Jelsoft for a licence for this purpose, or as RM said, ask one of your hosted vB owners

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At the moment, we are primarily hosting MyBB, IPB and phpBB forums. We are not currently hosting a vBulletin setup, more so as this service has yet to launch and we've been selective as to whom we host on it at this time.

We're taking the steps needed to ensure that all community softwares function as well as possible, however, we simply do not have access to a vBulletin installation at the moment.

I do appreciate the suggestions, however, the first is not currently an option and Jelsoft does not issue temporary licenses. The primary reason for this, to my knowledge, would be that the software is not encoded and they do not have such means to encode.

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