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Atom Suitability comparison between some forum software
Hi,
After a period of testing and researching, I was able to put up a basic comparison of suitability of different forum software. All of them offer similar feature set, but the big difference is the suitability.
SMF: Best for personal forums, home consumers, web masters with payed hosting plans and small businesses.
VBulletin: Best for middle to large businesses/corporates with a web server and for wealthy people with commercial sites
FluxBB: Best for new web masters and web masters with free hosting plans.
PHPBB: Best for home consumers and personal boards, and for highly-experienced administrators.
The reason that VBulletin is only for large businesses/corporates with a web server is because VBulletin costs a lot of money, and probably uses large amounts of system resources(higher than the limit for most free and payed hosting plans).
The reason that SMF and PHPBB is best for home consumers is because it's free, and takes up less system resources(can be installed on both free and payed hosting plans).
The reason that FluxBB is best for starters is because of it's very basic forum features(No attachments, poles, calendar, and anti-spam protection). The interface is also very well suited for beginners due to its simplicity and ease of use. It is also very suited for people that wants to create forums that loads fast on dial-up connections. It is not suited for normal personal forum owners and home consumers because of missing features.