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Rank: L3: Swoj-fan
Joined: 8/15/2003
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Location: United Kingdom
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Hi all.
I've just about set up a website and I'm wanting to host forums on it. My hostingh has all php cgi etc.
2 things that i was wondering:
1. What forums program should i go for? I've consired PHPBB and vBulletin.
2.How easy is it to set up, what do i need to do etc...
and Rogeman if you can get ur website up soon ill consider getting hosting from you.
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Rank: Martian Estate Agent
Joined: 9/14/2003
Posts: 3,278
Location: United Kingdom
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vBulletin is advance and good too use,
PhpBB is simple and you can MOD it easy.
You can install them both easy on CPanel (I have that on Rogem.Net, makes life so easy)
But there both easy too install anywhy...
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Rank: L3: Swoj-fan
Joined: 8/15/2003
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Location: United Kingdom
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i might be going to pixelhosting $3 a month thats roughly a pound 50. they have cpanel there.
I did use PHPbb and found it was an ok forum, very simple though. I want something skinnable and easy to use...
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Rank: Admin
Joined: 8/26/2002
Posts: 3,218
Location: United Kingdom
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You could always set up both and see which works best for you, then delete the other one. As far as I am aware, you probably wouldn't go wrong with either of them, would just be down to your personal taste.
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Rank: L3: Swoj-fan
Joined: 8/15/2003
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Location: United Kingdom
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what forums does swoj use i want something liek this with a bit more bells and whistles
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Rank: Larger than Life
Joined: 11/15/2003
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Location: United Kingdom
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I use phpbb, with a few simple mods on it and a custom skin. www.ithony.com/forumThe setting up of it is very simple, and the support once its installed is good.
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Rank: L3: Swoj-fan
Joined: 8/15/2003
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very nice bigB.
THanks for the advice if PHPBB is installed in Cpanel ill go for it.
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Rank: Martian Estate Agent
Joined: 9/14/2003
Posts: 3,278
Location: United Kingdom
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By the way SWOJ uses Snitz Forums 2000 (see link at bottom of page).
Snitz is very good, but evil too set up.
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Rank: Admin
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yes, its Snitz forums, though I didn't find it a problem to set up at all, then again I've not got a problem with changing sources files to make them do what I want! Snitz will only run on ASP though, so that would typically be Windows hosting. You can run ASP on Linuz/Apache with some extra software, however I'm not sure that it is 100% compatible, so don't know how Snitz would run on it. However, if you have PHP, stick to one of the two you have been talking about.
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Rank: L3: Swoj-fan
Joined: 8/15/2003
Posts: 782
Location: United Kingdom
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Hmmmmm....I'm with Linux hosting and PHP so yeah ill go with PHPBB
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Rank: Martian Estate Agent
Joined: 9/14/2003
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Location: United Kingdom
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Yeah, ASP hosting is very expensive.
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