Forum Software!

CoupeMad · 20 Jan 2006 at 00:09

Hi, I have no clue about hosting your own forums on your own server.

Are there software packages available?

Was thinking about something looking kinda like this place or Rovertech

Thanks

oddjob62 · 20 Jan 2006 at 00:10

http://www.phpbb.com/

Whitewater · 20 Jan 2006 at 00:11

oddjob62 said:
http://www.phpbb.com/

NVM

Edit: This works fine (such as http://guildhouse.anythingbutaone.com/) and will require PHP and MySQL support on your server if you're hosting it yourself or a good hosting package (such as those available from http://www.registron.co.uk/) will have this support already.

CoupeMad · 20 Jan 2006 at 00:24

Ideally id like to host it on my 2003 server box at home.

On TW 10Mb cable, but the upload is only 384K I belive.

Once things get going, would have to sort some real hosting out.

Trigger · 20 Jan 2006 at 09:15

If you want a paid solution then look at vBulletin (Running on these forums) and Invision Powerboard which I have been very impressed with on one of my sites so far. If you want an open source forum, then look at phpBB

roboffer · 20 Jan 2006 at 09:51

CoupeMad said:
Ideally id like to host it on my 2003 server box at home.

On TW 10Mb cable, but the upload is only 384K I belive.

Once things get going, would have to sort some real hosting out.

One MS option is CommunityServer

robmiller · 20 Jan 2006 at 11:27

vBulletin is an order of magnitude better than its competitors. IPB is pretty good too, though, and stay as far away from phpBB as you possibly can.

Are you running IIS or Apache?

CoupeMad · 21 Jan 2006 at 01:11

IIS mate.
Hmmm I thought the PHPBB looked pretty tasty to be honest.

Whats bad about it ?

Augmented · 21 Jan 2006 at 12:02

CoupeMad said:
Whats bad about it ?

The codebase of the current version of PHPBB seems to have become overly complex, and bugs (especially security-related) are appearing rather frequently requiring upgrades. It's not been too bad of late, and not as bad as people make out, but still it's not confidence-inspiring enough for most people to wish top recommend starting a new board with it. They are working on a new [major] version at the moment. Other than that it's really just a case of people's preference for different boards, and what matches their needs

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uchuff · 21 Jan 2006 at 15:09

If you just want basic functionality then I would recommend punbb, it's a lot cleaner and more light weight than other forum software I have tried. This has the benefit of not only being easier to bug fix but also easier to mod, a lot of the functionality you might miss from other forums can be hacked it.