# vBulletin Cloud Reviews **Vendor:** vBulletin Solutions **Category:** [Online Community Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/online-community-management) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 10 ## About vBulletin Cloud You get a fully functioning and customizable vBulletin site with all the key admin controls, while vBulletin handles the back-end infrastructure for you. ## vBulletin Cloud Reviews ### 1. V bulletin is acttractive design and fully optimization & ueser friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad K. | fiverr , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2023 **What do you like best about vBulletin Cloud?** The question and answer section is very good and common user understanding **What do you dislike about vBulletin Cloud?** here we can improve our mistake whit getting the senior user to help & also identify the problem **What problems is vBulletin Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** Question and answer to improves the mistakes ### 2. very good platform for forum hosting **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Teuku Muhammad F. | Data Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2022 **What do you like best about vBulletin Cloud?** This service provides a high level of security for my website, so I'm pretty sure no worry about it. Next, it's easy to import data, and also this service also provides chatting tools. **What do you dislike about vBulletin Cloud?** Maybe the frontend design of the service and tools are provided are not quite enough i suggest to improve for mobile app to get more easy to acces and also add more tool like document keep. **Recommendations to others considering vBulletin Cloud:** I suggest absolutely this security provider for the website, and also a perfect platform for forum hosting. The price also relatively cheap for a regular user **What problems is vBulletin Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** I find myself more productive using this service I find unique services for my website that guarantees the protection of my website and also make this useful for data importing ### 3. Best for building community forum. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2022 **What do you like best about vBulletin Cloud?** Can't think of any other platform except Vbulletin to create a forum for my community, I have been using it for years and so far i have had not a single issue with it. **What do you dislike about vBulletin Cloud?** I have had no issues with Vbulletin as far as I am concerned. It's not overly mixed up with tons of features but simplified for you to host and moderate any community you build a forum for. **What problems is vBulletin Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** I actually use vBulletin Cloud to host my tech forum, where like-minded geeks like me can discuss common issues they face in different operating systems. It's just for discussion. ### 4. A solid option to build your forum/community **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Relations and Communications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2021 **What do you like best about vBulletin Cloud?** It's a fairly user-friendly platform and easy to navigate. By the best part is the moderation tools. **What do you dislike about vBulletin Cloud?** A number of the templates look pretty outdated, so I do hope they update them in the future. **What problems is vBulletin Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** We now have a sumple way for users to connect with us and ask questions. ### 5. vBulletin Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anna E. | Website Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2021 **What do you like best about vBulletin Cloud?** It was very easy to set up without knowing much about vBulletin beforehand. There was also a lot of helpful information online that aided me in setting up vBulletin. In addition, I contacted the support team multiple times during the implementation process and they were very willing to help. **What do you dislike about vBulletin Cloud?** There was little ability to customize vBulletin to match my business website. I tried to get my company's logo represented in the header on vBulletin but ran into many sizing issues that prevented me from getting the exact look I wanted. **Recommendations to others considering vBulletin Cloud:** This is a great way to keep your customers happy and involved with your website and brand. If you are looking for easy customization, this would not be the exact place for your business. The ability to integrate other platforms using vBulletin is very easy. It is also a very secure platform so you do not have to worry about any forums being hacked. A lack of coding knowledge may hinder a user as you have to manually modify the files. **What problems is vBulletin Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** We want to have a place where people can come and discuss my business and it's products. This worked well as it was easily integrated into my website. I also appreciate the high level of security involved in vBulletin Cloud. This helped my company to feel safe that our information would not be compromised. ### 6. vBulltin Cloud - it's OK if don't have tech skills and you are not too concerned with security **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ilie P. | Professional Freelancer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2020 **What do you like best about vBulletin Cloud?** Ease of Use - As with all "Cloud" (or managed) solutions, this approach takes away the hassle of having to install the software yourself and to maintain it. Keeping the software up to date and secure can be expensive, so not having to worry about this is a plus. The same goes for not having to worry about choosing a hosting company that is "compatible" with vBulletin. Depending on the plan you choose, you also get access to support. You don't think support is something useful until you desperately need it and you cannot find anyone to help you. If you don't want to worry about the tech, and have someone help you setup and maintain the community, then vBulletin Cloud can be a good choice for you. **What do you dislike about vBulletin Cloud?** Bad Reputation - I have been using vBulletin 4.x for almost 8 years. I knew the code, and I could easily customize it to the needs of my community. When the company launched vBulletin 5.x (Connect and Cloud) I gave that a go as I was hoping for cleaner code, better integration, better performance, and support for PHP 7. I was disappointed. The solution felt rushed, it was full of bugs and I was not the only one complaining. To be fair, I continued to use the 4.x, self-hosted version, so I have not checked the Cloud edition in the past 3 years, and that is a long time for the software to grow. Regardless of code quality, and overall performance, choosing a Cloud solution has its own disadvantages. You give up control in order to buy comfort. You can no longer customize the code and the extensions to make it a perfect fit for your needs. You rely on a third party to do your backups, and that is not always a good idea. You can no longer choose your hosting server, so you have little control over what kind of resources you want to make available for your forum, or if you want to use a load balancer. If you are technically oriented, and control is more important than comfort, then a better alternative is to get vBulletin 5 Connect, assuming that all the bugs have been ironed out. **What problems is vBulletin Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** From a business point of view, using VBulletin Cloud outsources your concern with software maintenance and updates and with backing up your data. Instead of having to hire technical help, you could get a monthly subscription from vBulletin and have that sorted out. ### 7. vBulletin Cloud Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2021 **What do you like best about vBulletin Cloud?** Easy set up is the primary benefit and a non technical person can also set this up with little help. **What do you dislike about vBulletin Cloud?** The major drawback of vBulletin Cloud is it hold all controls at their own end and have limited access to a developer/programmer for infra related activities for selective backups. **What problems is vBulletin Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** vBulletin Cloud solution lies for auto scheduling and management of images and migration of data from one version to other. Also vBulletin Cloud provide access of multifeatured templates which can be used in all sort of applications which is not typically possible in SMF. ### 8. simple implicmentation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **What do you like best about vBulletin Cloud?** simple implementation, ease of use for the client and end user make this a no brainer forum tool. the low power requirements to run a large forum with this product are excellent. **What do you dislike about vBulletin Cloud?** stability and archive integrity could be a little better but a perfect solution has yet to be made. **What problems is vBulletin Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** adding vbulletin cloud to our vendor site allows for a transparent client/vendor interaction as well as the ability to create a positive environment regarding the vendors reputation and support through clients and their peers. ### 9. Easy to use forum **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2016 **What do you like best about vBulletin Cloud?** Easy forum setup. Great way to converse with forum members and share ideas. Love the privacy settings and the ability to message members from within the forum. **What do you dislike about vBulletin Cloud?** A bit challenging to carryover older versions of Vbulletin to newer versions. Especially if your community is very text/image heavy. Uploading images is a bit cumbersome (can't simply upload directly from your device (computer/iphone) -- photos must be hosted somewhere), but there are other apps that provide an easy work-around to this. **What problems is vBulletin Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** Community involvement, chat features. ### 10. Good service with good support **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erdmann K. | Intern, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 06, 2016 **What do you like best about vBulletin Cloud?** I have been using vBulletin software for over a decade and a big pain point was dealing with all the infrastructure, upgrades, backs and all that stuff. When I heard vBulletin Cloud would do that for you I got pretty excited about it. After trying for a month I can say the service provided is quite good and they do deliver what is promised. **What do you dislike about vBulletin Cloud?** My main complain is not about the vBulletin Cloud service itself but the "product" they use on their cloud service: vBulletin Connect. You can read more about it on my "vBulletin Connect" review, but long story short: vBulletin Connect (vB5) is nothing alike the previous vB3 and vB4 versions and I got pretty disappointed about it. If I could have vBulletin Connect running vB4 I'd be very satisfied. **Recommendations to others considering vBulletin Cloud:** It solves one of the main pain points of running an online discussion website. You don't have to worry about infrastructure, performance and updates anymore. Definitely worth a try. **What problems is vBulletin Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** Online forums for movie lovers. ## vBulletin Cloud Discussions - [How much does vBulletin cost?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/vbulletin-cloud-how-much-does-vbulletin-cost) - [How much does vBulletin cost?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-much-does-vbulletin-cost) - [Is vBulletin any good?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-vbulletin-any-good) - [What is vBulletin used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-vbulletin-used-for) - [What is vBulletin Cloud?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-vbulletin-cloud) - [View vBulletin Cloud pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/vbulletin-cloud/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+11%3A23%3A22+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a256e0b8-5b60-42fa-868a-910449e036b6&secure%5Btoken%5D=1ede5bac85c37bd6f6680f02497c22b24e37b08f4d6f6022aa511727615c24f7&format=llm_user) ## vBulletin Cloud Features **Community Building** - Member Profiles - Email & Notifications - Member Discovery - Member Referrals - Community Spaces - Paid Memberships - Multimedia Sharing - Courses **Community Improvement** - Gamification - Polls & Questions - Automation Rules **Customer Analytics** - Downloadable Reports - ROI Tracking **Community Management** - Community Feeds & Discussions - Live Streaming - Chat & Messaging - Events Management - Admin Roles & Permissions **Agentic AI - Online Community Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top vBulletin Cloud Alternatives - [Influitive](https://www.g2.com/products/jigsaw-interactive-influitive/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (388 reviews) - [Higher Logic Thrive](https://www.g2.com/products/higher-logic-thrive/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (427 reviews) - [Circle](https://www.g2.com/products/circle-so-circle/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (454 reviews)