Hi!
I recently acquired a forum that is quite active with a lot of registered members and 340k+ posts in 17k+ threads. Since I’ve been senior moderator for many years at this place I want to revitalise the forum, and step #1 is to make the forum software reasonably updated which it is not at the moment. See attached scrennshot of the admin panel. Sorry it is in Swedish but almost the same as English...
What I need right now is a safe upgrade path, I have almost no experience ”at the bowel end” of forum software so to speak... The forum software is installed on a VPS running CentOS 7 if that may help suggestions on how to proceed wisely.
All suggestions are greatly appreciated. I am in no position to hire consultants to do necessary upgrades, this costs me money already for the ISP operational fees of hiring the VSP with the required bandwith, power, memory etc. I assumed the responsibility of admin for the sake of the community and not in any hope of making any profit at all. Of course I would not mind if I can find funding models to cover at least operational costs but it is not so important for me right now, just need a solid working solution for the community.
Thankful for constructive suggestions on how to move forward!

I recently acquired a forum that is quite active with a lot of registered members and 340k+ posts in 17k+ threads. Since I’ve been senior moderator for many years at this place I want to revitalise the forum, and step #1 is to make the forum software reasonably updated which it is not at the moment. See attached scrennshot of the admin panel. Sorry it is in Swedish but almost the same as English...
What I need right now is a safe upgrade path, I have almost no experience ”at the bowel end” of forum software so to speak... The forum software is installed on a VPS running CentOS 7 if that may help suggestions on how to proceed wisely.
All suggestions are greatly appreciated. I am in no position to hire consultants to do necessary upgrades, this costs me money already for the ISP operational fees of hiring the VSP with the required bandwith, power, memory etc. I assumed the responsibility of admin for the sake of the community and not in any hope of making any profit at all. Of course I would not mind if I can find funding models to cover at least operational costs but it is not so important for me right now, just need a solid working solution for the community.
Thankful for constructive suggestions on how to move forward!
