I have a friend that runs a forum using VB, and I have already asked the VB help desk but they don't seem to have a clue. Is it possible that you can have a VB forum database write to two separate sites?

When I tried to ask VB help it was b/c I wasnt sure if having one license (paid I think, not the yearly type) and trying to write to two places (simultaneously) would be a breech of their stuff with VB/client or not. I figured no since its the same exact site, but we are trying to avoid any data lose while the site moves from 1 sever to another (new hosting company), and they really cant afford downtime.

I'm not really sure what you are asking. When you say VB are you really meaning to talk about Access or SQL Server? Are these two websites hosted on the same physical server?

VB is a forum framework. It's a piece of software that includes a database and web server code, to make the type of site you're on work.

I'm not sure whether their license allows it or not. And I don't know how it's coded. If you're brave, you could pry into the code, and change it so that every time it writes to a database, instead, it writes to both. That might slow things down, tho.

I am trying to avoid as much as humanly possible to not open up VB and poke around if I can. I'm kind of agitated at the VB tech support whom I asked and since they told me I am not a client they can not discuss that with me. The only reason I was concerned is the writing of 2 DB's over 2 to separate servers (and no, they would be different as its different hosting providers, we are aiming for a mirror backup type set, in case 1 hosting company takes a dump the site isn't affected), if it was legal on VB's side or not - don't want to get into trouble.

These are MySQL databases? Does it support log shipping? You might be able to replicate the database without changing the code to write to both of them?