Infamous Quests
Public Forums => Banter and Chit-Chat! => Topic started by: asianmusicguy on March 09, 2013, 10:17:46 PM
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so i recently had trouble with spam on my phpbb board someone had compromised and was recommend i switch to smf now seeing as may of the sites i visit including this one use smf whats the draw for smf what makes it better in a sense then phpbb?
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I have no spam issues with my phpBB board. At least not after I setup a Q&A challenge instead of CAPTCHA. The trick is to not use questions that can be Googled.
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I've never really run a phpBB board (not recently anyway) so can't tell you the differences but SMF has always worked very well for me. It's highly customizable with themes, styles and mods, has a great community of support and is pretty damned secure. The same could be said about phpBB too but for me SMF is very easy to manage and I wouldn't have any need to change.
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Yeah i tried that and it work really while but somehow recently hasn't been my host is a independent host and a good friend and worked hard to get everything back to a state it got so my email service was black listed all is ok now but reinstalled the board and disabled it until i figure out a solution he recommended either smf or maybe and seeing as all the "cool" people use that i have been considering a switch
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The only security issue that I had was not a phpBB problem. A while back I was getting barraged by constant port scanning. I kept banning the IP blocks responsible, but they would start up in a new range. They managed to break into the FTP and meddled with an .htaccess file, which I caught and fixed right away. What ended it was to block all IP ranges from China, which I guess is what a lot of webmasters have resorted to doing.
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Id more then likely switch but i cant seem to contact my web designer to set up a new theme shes done all my website work since 2008 so im at a loss
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If your theme is that old, it is probably not completely compatible with the latest version of phpBB. It may work, but there will be broken features and well as possible security holes. This is why I make nearly all of my theme based on ProSilver customizing just CSS, overall_header.html and the overall_footer.html. It makes it quick and easy to recreate my theme based on the new ProSilver.
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oh my themes not old I just meant i have had the same person designing my website and forum since 2008 but shes recently been busy so cant help me switch over to smf