One of the many handy features that vBulletin offers its users is the ability to completely control the forums. With these powerful features, you can control who can and who cannot see individual forums, or groups of forums.

Through the administration panel, you can control access to forums by each usergroup that you have enabled on your forums. You can do it by each individual forum, or you can edit by category, if you want every forum within that category to have the same access rules.

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You love running your forum, and you enjoy seeing your users interract with each other, and with you. You enjoy running the online community that you’ve built.

But let’s face it, as with everything else in life, running a website isn’t free. Usually, the biggest cost associated with your site is the hosting fees, followed by the license fees for vBulletin. All told, you could be spending at least $300 a year to run your site, if you do everything yourself. You’re only human, after all, and you have bills, too.

So, how do you offset the costs (and maybe make a little profit) without charging your users, who may just go somewhere where they won’t be charged?

Accept advertising!

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Hello everyone, first and foremost welcome to the URLJet Company Blog. This blog is a work in progress, but we hope it can bring everyone little nuggets of vbulletin related information and entertaining news on the web in general. You will periodically also find important news, updates, and even special offers through this blog so check back often. Our vbulletin techs, will also be providing webhosting articles, tips, and tricks for all of our readers!

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