vordmeister - 6:09 pm on Nov 10, 2009 (gmt 0)

There's IPB to look at too :)

All of the forum solutions can be installed in a directory. Mine is called /forum/ and is only a part of my site. That allows me to do what I like with homepages and other content.

It was having to do the mods that put me off phpBB. Seem to be a very enthusiastic bunch over there who update their software very regularly. Fantastic until you need to integrate all your mods into a new version every month. I moved away years ago for this reason - is there a plugin system these days?

You can probably figure out which solution I use from rocknbil's link. But VBs direction seems to be diverging from mine, and their last major upgrade doubled my CPU usage so I'm waiting for reports about their current really big update before handing over money.

PS - I wouldn't build your own. I've spent the last 6 months building my own shop software (everything else seemed useless) but forum software is even more complex and all the ones mentioned above work fairly well.