advice on getting a forum

[BrianTheYank]

I be looking to get myself an online forum/message board for some small things I got going. Any advice on places where I can get free online ones that some sites will host for you or any one wanna host some small thingy for me?

completely clueless I am so I seek the advice of you fine folks.......... help.......

[rico]

bravenet or something like that supply free forum templates.

[BrianTheYank]

ta, muy bien rico.

[JamieBeeston]

or for a small cost, you can get a hosting package from a number of places which will come with free, unbannered forums

[BrianTheYank]

JamieBeeston said:

or for a small cost, you can get a hosting package from a number of places which will come with free, unbannered forums

what would a small cost be/can you point me in the right direction

[JamieBeeston]

BrianTheYank said:

JamieBeeston said: or for a small cost, you can get a hosting package from a number of places which will come with free, unbannered forums what would a small cost be/can you point me in the right direction

There are many different places that will offer you hosing, UK, US etc.

the ones I run are UK based, so wont be much use for you, there will be a billion US based ones.

Enjoy

[JoolzB]

I've just set up a asp forum on my site. I use www.wwwServer.co.uk for the hosting, 25 quid for 2 years hosting + £10 domain reg, ok limited bandwidth but acceptable for me.

Used Snitz forum for the forum itself, loadsa features and dead simple to set up. A very simple bit of config setup and it's up and running.

[JamieBeeston]

www.Register1.net/vds.php

techinicallyonly the Pro account comes with a Forum.. but I will happily enable it on any Standard account for any PH member.

just raise a support ticket after purchase mentioning PH, and I will have it enabled.

[rsvnigel]

Jamie, I see you support JSP and Servlets with the pro package.

Would you get your own copy of tomcat to play with? Just wondering how you'd manage datasources, user authentication etc.

Ta.

[JamieBeeston]

rsvnigel said:

Jamie, I see you support JSP and Servlets with the pro package. Would you get your own copy of tomcat to play with? Just wondering how you'd manage datasources, user authentication etc. Ta.

Hi,

from memory, the applications themselves are chrooted off, allowing for a Virtual Instance of each application to run in the users own environment. this allows users their own PHP.INI for example, their own FTPUSERS file etc. I expect the TomCat installation would would under the same premise. Allowing for the seemles existence of multiple instances on the one server, with each one retaining its sense of 'uniqueness'

This is the reason alot of the packages are only offered on the Pro (Unique IP) package, so that each Package has the full range of ports at its disposal.

Feel free to mail me offline via profile if you would like to discuss this further.


Thanks

[BrianTheYank]

Jamie, thanks for the offer but it all seems a bit, too much for me.

[JamieBeeston]

BrianTheYank said:

Jamie, thanks for the offer but it all seems a bit, too much for me.

Indeed..

thruout life, you will be overwhelmed, and underwhelmed at times, my products always overwhelm

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>> Edited by JamieBeeston on Sunday 18th July 18:36

[BrianTheYank]

plus, it would cost about $80 a year for me
and no job = no money