vHoist: Virtual Showroom and Garage

vHoist.com is a new website that features the ability to add pictures, video and content of your car and share them with the rest of the world via the internet.

What makes this different then other Car websites?

vHoist.com is unique in that it features a plug-in for vBulletin forum which will allow you to display your vHoist on multiple forum website. vBulletin forums are the current leading forum technology for most car enthusiast websites on the internet.

How does this benefit me?

On top of having a place to host and share pictures of your ride, you can now update your vehicles centrally via one website. Updating all related sites that you have added to your vHoist. Show your car off to the entire internet, or just have a private blog for your own historic record of your ride. Features will be added weekly. For sale, Stolen Car Notifications, Rank, Rating are all being added.

How do I get the plug-in for my website?

We are currently beta testing our product on several websites. This is a closed beta at the moment, and we plan to launch a full public release by mid January, 2009. You can be added to the pre-release list by filling out this form. This may get you on our release list sooner.

Does the vHoist plugin effect how my website will look or operate?

No. The vHoist plugin is 100% vBulletin compatitble. It uses all of your standard vBulletin features, including your forum styles. Users visiting your website will not be asked to leave in order to view parked garages. The only time your user will visit vHoist.com will be to edit their garages.

Does vHoist plugin add any extra SQL Querys to my website?

No. All querys and processing take place on vHoist.com servers.

Is this free?

Yes. This service is provided free based on our User Agreement.

Can our users have a separate login or email on different vbulletin forums?

Our system is based on a seperate vHoist login. However, you users email address, username and user id is recorded in our database so that when their names are displayed on your forum, they corrispond with the usernames in your database.

Will you support other Forums such as phpBB?

We are currently working on a phpBB plug-in for vHoist, but will be released several weeks after the vBulletin plugin.

How does this benefit the site administator?

vHoist.com has been built to support the plug-in functionality, specifically for vBulletin. This will allow you to have a "parking lot" of cars on your website(s) from your users. vHoist.com features a unique "Parked in ..." feature which displays all of the websites your user has "parked" their car on.

Whenever a user add's there garage to a new website, a backlink is placed in that users garage. The more backlinks you have to your website, the more traffic you will have and the higher you will rank in search engines. This can exponentially add many backlinks to your site.

User # * Amount Of Sites = # Of Back Links.

(U1 * s) + (U2 * S) + (U3 * S) + (Un ... * S) = Amount of Back links.

A report of Backlinks will be sent to your control panel.

Can we import vbGarage users rides into the vHoist plugin?

Yes. We have develop an importing tool for vBGarage v3.1.1 that will import all of your users rides into the vHoist plugin. This will allow you to keep your database of users and switch over to our more advanced garage. Since importing is currently in Beta, this is done on a case-by-case basis and you will need to Contact us for further information regarding importing.