Message Board Improvement

During our last KCC, I said I would look into finding a better alternative to our current ProBoards message board due to the file limits and somewhat clunkiness to the threads.


I looked at a few other options, but nothing came close to the features of ProBoards, even the free version of PB we are using.


What I did find was that ProBoards has a number of other paid plans that are very reasonable and would greatly help with the files count and size limits:

Plan        Total Storage     Files per post     Max file size     Total Bandwidth     Cost / Month
Free        200 MB            3                  1 MB              10 GB/month         $-          
Copper      500               5                  2                 25                  $3.00

Bronze      800               8                  3                 40                  $6.00

Silver      1200              12                 4                 60                  $9.00

Gold        1600              16                 5                 80                  $12.60

Platinum    2000              20                 10                100                 $14.40

Diamond     4000              30                 20                200                 $30.40

Obsidian    10000             40                 40                500                 $73.50

I went ahead and updated our account to the Bronze plan which increases our file attachment size 3x and allows for up to 8 attachments instead of 3.  I think $6/mo. is pretty reasonable and we can try it out to see if it helps with our needs and go from there.