When to buy and system requirements

I'm in the final few days before going live on a migration from another forum to vBulletin. I'm interested in VBSEO, but I would prefer to start out with the higher-performance, non-encrypted version 3.1.0. Since it doesn't seem to be available yet, is there any reason I shouldn't wait before buying a copy? Although I would love to start out with the right URLs, I also want to keep my system performing at its best, and I'd rather not deal with an upgrade in the near future. I don't mind too much if my URLs all change in another month or two... Am I missing something?

Also, I was a little confused by a post that discussed system requirements -- something about Zend and ion something-or-other. My system is running a vanilla PHP 5.2.4 distribution. vBulletin is installed and works fine. Do I need anything more than that?

I also saw a post that mentioned .htaccess files for managing the URL rewriting. I'm running PHP under IIS on Windows. Will that work, or do I need Apache?

Hello Ace ,

3.1.0 will be out within one or two days. vBSEO installation takes around 5 minutes and upgrading vBSEO is way easier. Once you install vBSEO your url settings will remain same unless you decide to change them but changing url settings constantly hurts site rankings.

Zend and IonCube is required for vBSEO 3.0.0 version and below versions. 3.0.0 version is encoded thats why in order to run 3.0.0 and below versions users need either Zend or IonCube installed on their server.

vBSEO works with different server configurations including IIS. For ISS servers you need to install ISAPI_rewrite module.