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JamesV6CDX Ex Member Gender: Drives: 2002 (02) 3.2 Retail MV6 in Star Silver with Leather	web / forum hosting 16. Oct 2008 at 16:21 I want to create a small website to have my own presence on the web, and as part of that I also want a very small forum where people can log in and leave feedback / comments. Any ideas on a good hosting solution, and a (pref. free) forum package to suit?
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Holy Count Ex Member	Re: web / forum hosting Reply #1 - 16. Oct 2008 at 16:59 For a simple FREE web presence have a look at freewebs.com
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psychnurse Omega Baron Offline Whats in the fridge today? Beer and Sausages....UM Posts: 2176 Leominster, Herefordshire Gender: Drives: Carlton 2.0, and VXR	Re: web / forum hosting Reply #2 - 16. Oct 2008 at 17:01 Just to add my bit mate.... No idea..... Sorry about that! My wife pays £5 a month for a forum. Will ask her when she comes in.
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JueV6 Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1656 Kent Gender: Drives: Anything thats Availabe	Re: web / forum hosting Reply #3 - 16. Oct 2008 at 17:07 I use to host my own, Website/forum and irc chatroom. as long as you have enough bandwidth it's easy as things stand at the moment i have 2 small severs sitting redundant
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Reply #4 - 16. Oct 2008 at 17:10

There may be a free hosting soluyion (often with ISP) but these commonly have their name in your URL. e.g bandit127.ntlworld.com

I use Godaddy. They're cheap and have good storage and bandwidth allowances. It's not the best site, but mine is here for an example: www.bandit127.com

For forum software, why not YABB? It's free and it runs OOF.
http://www.yabbforum.com/

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Martin Imber Over Active Poster Offline LPG Omega V6 - Keyfobs Rebuilt Posts: 20110 Worcester Gender: Drives: 2001 Omega 2.6CD LPG & 3.0 cams	Re: web / forum hosting Reply #5 - 16. Oct 2008 at 17:48 Ask Jaime
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Del Boy Omega Lord Offline Posts: 9381 Ashford, Kent. Gender: Drives: Various things.	Re: web / forum hosting Reply #6 - 16. Oct 2008 at 17:52 Very good people are smfnew.com
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cem Omega King Offline Posts: 13920 Ankara/Turkey Gender: Drives: 97 2.5 V6 Manual CD- Clio Sport	Re: web / forum hosting Reply #7 - 16. Oct 2008 at 19:08 I cant comment on the location or ISP but as a personel preference you can write simple codes with vcbscript and manage every kind of forum needs..(yep..may not be very prof looking but not necessary I think).. And also you will need a small database manager if you decide to go deeper..
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JueV6 Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1656 Kent Gender: Drives: Anything thats Availabe	Re: web / forum hosting Reply #8 - 16. Oct 2008 at 19:46 mine was running MS server 2003 as the OS, using IIS, phpbb for the forum and mysql for the databases The irc was using anope for the chat services and unrealIRDC for the chat room.
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Del Boy Omega Lord Offline Posts: 9381 Ashford, Kent. Gender: Drives: Various things.	Re: web / forum hosting Reply #9 - 16. Oct 2008 at 19:51 Del Boy wrote on 16. Oct 2008 at 17:52: Very good people are smfnew.com O by the way my son uses this for his forum you can see it here (if thats ok) ssclan.smfnew.com
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Re: web / forum hosting
Reply #10 - 16. Oct 2008 at 20:42

Before picking a host, you need to decide on technologies used - for example, if you're using ASP or .NET, it makes sense to host on Windows (the unix type asp solutions are not the most compatible, and .NET isn't yet available (stable) for Unix). If you're going down the php/MySQL route, obviously a Unix or Linux solution is the way to go.

I run both Windows and Unix webservers, and the technologies they run all have pros and cons.

Decide the technology, then pick the host.

As to forum software, I like access to source code. Whilst I really do like YaBB, its architecture really sucks, and the next major version (not the interim one due now), which is supposed to reengineer this massive issue, has no release date. Not even a timeline. May appear next year, may be 5 years, who knows. Based on that, I cannot recommend it.

I quite like the old forums.net software, which has morphed into Community Server, but with each new release, it seems to be going away from its original market of free, open, forum, and getting more and more commercial with tighter restrictions on what you can and can't do.

I detest phpBB with a passion, more bugs that a Libyian coffe shop, and more holes than a box of Polos. Too common, too sloppy, too much hassle.

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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: web / forum hosting Reply #11 - 16. Oct 2008 at 20:43 But whatever you choose, ensure you use your own domain. Not doing so will screw you over big time.
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Re: web / forum hosting
Reply #12 - 16. Oct 2008 at 21:26

TheBoy wrote on 16. Oct 2008 at 20:43:

But whatever you choose, ensure you use your own domain. Not doing so will screw you over big time.

Couldn't agree more there. I have my own domain for my IT business and because I spend all my time working on it I run my website in Lotus Domino.....sadly it is NOT something for beginners(although you can download the software for free on unlimited evaluation ) but if you know what you are doing you can get some seriously featured websites on it including forums etc.

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Bandit127

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Re: web / forum hosting
Reply #13 - 16. Oct 2008 at 22:20

TheBoy wrote on 16. Oct 2008 at 20:43:

But whatever you choose, ensure you use your own domain. Not doing so will screw you over big time.

Sorry TB. not clear on that. Do you mean register your own domain name, like theboy.com would be registered to you?

Or do you mean host theboy.com from your own server (which would be home based for most of us).

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