We were established in 2004 when the boss of the forum heard about the NeoVVL engine. At the time the NeoVVL engine was pretty new to the UK and very few had heard about it. After searching for research there was not the best amount of information and certainly not a dedicated owners club for it. So the idea spun and a search revealed that NeoVVL.com and NeoVVL.co.uk was available. These were purchased and the forum software was installed. As it was the intention to keep the costs low as the NeoVVL Owners Club was aimed to be a free non-advertisment community the hosting was purchased from the US as UK hosting companies charged through the roof and always limited to what you could do with it.

Around July-ish 2004, the forum was installed and we went live. We had initially used PHPBB2 software. This package included hundreds of modifications for ease of use and enhancements. Unfortunatly we had a turbulant ride with this and the forum was constantly plagued with problems. The biggest issue was with Spam and the NeoVVL Owners Club was constantly being bombarded with all the spam crap of the day. Many attempts to repair the forum failed. In December 2007, the owner decided to re-design and install new forum software. A few test runs were done behind the scenes but unfortunatly the old forum Database was just not working correctly with the new forum software so the decision was made to start from scratch.

So the beginning of January 2008 the test forum was deleted and the software installed again on a brand new Database. We had decided to use the phpBB 3 software which was a step up from the old forum. The old select usernames were manually inputted into the new new database. Unfortunatly we had lost all the old posts so we appeared brand new. We had installed a selected few enhancements for the forum and done some intensive testing. All the tests were successful and we were ready to roll.

On January 19th 2008, the forum went live to the public with a new look and logo. The main thing we resolved was no Spamming on the forum. As the old forum was spammed this really hit bad on the clubs reputation. We had noticed there was competiion of a new NeoVVL forum so this was the final operunity to make this forum the most sucessful one out there. A lot of advertisement was done through out the web and a few of our old users were still on the club made posts and provided info on there conversions. Slowly the user count started to climb and around Feburary time us and the forum content started to show on the search engines. It took 3 months for the forum to reach around 200 posts and 100 users. By the end of 2008 we really started to blossom and our reputation started to increased and we have grown to a sucessful worldwide community for NeoVVL enthusists and we aim to keep it like that for the future.

In October 2010 new up to date forum software was updated. This time with our current database. This was sucessful with no issues what so ever. We also decided to create a new front website. This has slowly been in development. This has been created from scratch and all graphics have been uniquely created forum the club. We expect to have it fully complete by early 2011.

On the last note we wish to thank all the registered users who have contributed to the forum. The NeoVVL Owners Club would not be a successful community without them. Another thanks to our forum moderators "Autech" and "97VZR". You guys have done a sterling job.

Thankyou

Chris

The NeoVVL Owners Club Creator