Write a friend who likes to use the forum to build a station

Recently on a number of official jars, DV, DISCUZ, Leadbbs and new Molyx
Found that everyone liked the different programs of that one to make comparisons. Although I am not a professional, but my own nearly three years of construction station experience, my own small jar from small to large, and then to commercialization, to now successfully sold, there are some ideas and people say. So let's talk about a few aspects of the Forum program.

1. What kind of program do I need? On the location of the website
At first I also like to take a variety of programs to play, for this change for that, then very dazed, but the jar on the right track, and after the DV6 version, has been determined in the DV.
First of all, my jar. My jar is the student group facing our Hainan area, content is biased towards entertainment and fashion, so what we need is a powerful and stylish forum, but as we have also experienced hacking events (at that time with lb), we are more concerned about security issues, and have turned to VBB, But because the function cannot satisfy our most fashionable student forum's demand, finally still did not hesitate chooses the DV business procedure. And our jar is now on the scale of more than 20,000 registered users, more than 1 million of the posts, daily average of more than 200 online, the average post in more than 2000 ...
What I'm saying above is just a question: Are you for the forum, or are you really trying to build a high quality forum? Choosing a forum program should be considered from the perspective of your site's needs. Do you need to be powerful or secure, or just enough, or are you just a programming enthusiast? These are the things that need you to think carefully.

2. Talking about the so-called security
Many people who build stations have been threatened by hackers. My jar has been hacked. Causes all data to be lost. But after switching to DV it was always calm.
I want to say is, as long as the program will always have defects, because people are not perfect, people do things out of course is not perfect, if the DV can really perfect, then other forums should be closed? Oh, a joke!
Website is hacked, did you find the reason from yourself? You say DV security is not good, why other people's well not be black? I think more important is our security awareness is insufficient, some people installed the forum, and even the database suffix are not changed, as I see it is black that is deserved! and data backup is important, even if you have a perfect program can not rule out natural and man-made disasters?
On the other hand, the DV market share of the large, its own ASP entry threshold is not high, the study of DV people are more numerous, this from another point of view also shows that his popularity is high. To make a simple comparison, DV is like Windows and Linux compared to other PHP class forums. Windows is the legendary patch king, often with security issues, why is it so popular? One reason is that it is human, considerate, and able to meet most of the market's needs, and Linux? So many years although the applause but not box-office, is because it can not really cut into the market.
In the words of a netizen: is your product for most people or only for the few?

3. The so-called speed and high load.
This I think there is no good comparison, now is the broadband era, as long as your space is not too bad, I think the speed is less than where to go, to say that the real impact of speed is you do not choose to install plug-ins too flooded the cause.
High load, if your jar doesn't have a certain size, I don't think you need to care about the problem ... Because that's far from you ... In other words, if your database has 1G, I think there is no virtual host in the country can satisfy you ...

Conclusion
If you are not a pure technician or programming enthusiast, I think you should focus on your forum positioning and how to develop your jar, after all, the content is the most important. Forum programs are just the tools you need to achieve these goals, and the choices you make will not distract you from the unimportant.