Creating a Forum some technical questions.

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Hi guys,

I´m preparing a big project related with a Portuguese IM Forum, but i require to know are the following if you can assist me:

First of all i will need to inform you about my goals in the forum:

a) Forum customization: This mean that i want to redesign the forum look and feel, program some thread to not have possibility to bump automatically.
b) Insertion of My sponsors Banners / if possible with rotation (3 sponsors, will rotate their banners equaly)
c) Create a membership / subscription zone, where users can pay to access to Premium services/content

To achieve this goals i need to know the follwoing:

a) There is any Forum software (free or paid) that can i buy install and have all this goal out of the box? or i always require a designer/programmer
b) I´ve heard a lot about Vbulletin and SMF, many people says that SMF does the same thing as VB but the difference is about VB support where they have staff for it, while SMF "only" have a good willing community to help.
c) Hosting: Well i believe that i will achive quite fast about 500 daily users and will be preparing a about 150-300 unique content (articles, tutorials, videos, documents, etc) so for this kind of usage do you believe that a shared solution will be ok to start this project or i will require to start with a VPS or a dedicated server?

Thanks in advance,
Morg
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