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  • 13-01-2011 11:45am
    #1
    Hanneman213
    Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭


    Hi guys,

    I am currently trying to help create an online presence for a local record store and one of the ideas I am considering is creating a forum for the store. It currently doesn't have an official site, just a Facebook account, MySpace, etc, so I'm guessing it would be an indpendant forum, something along the lines of say Nuclear War Now. I'm just looking for a bit of advice on this.

    1)How much would it cost to set up a forum?
    2)What sites/programmes are best to use?
    3)Does hosting a forum cost the same as hosting a website?

    I've been messing around with www.forumotion.com, which allows you make a free forum and that seems kind of cool, but I'm not sure if it professional enough.

    Does anyone have any advice/suggestions about creating a forum? I've posted this in 3 places because im not sure which forum its best suited too (its also in internet marketing & web development, so moderator, please feel free to delete the posts which are in the wrong place).

    Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!


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  • #2
    Sposs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,472 ✭✭✭Sposs


    A forum would be cheap enough to start with, sign up with any shared hosting provider for as little as 2/3 euro per month and you'll get a hosting account with forum software such as phpbb already pre-installed and ready to go.


  • #3
    The_B_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,877 ✭✭✭The_B_Man


    Ye PhpBB3 is free, vBulletin is not. They are 2 of the main forum softwares out there.

    Heres an example of both:
    vBulletin
    phpBB3

    You can also add mods to both to customise them whichever way you want.]

    Starting off, I'd say go with phpBB3. Its free so if the site doesnt get that much traffic, then you didnt waste €150 or so on vBulletin. If it does take off, you can always just convert your database from phpBB3 to vBulletin using a script found on the vBulletin forums.

    If you've never got hosting before, I suppos you can go for the cheapest one that supports a database, eg mySQL and php. However, a lot of the times you get what you pay for, but if uptime isnt that important, go with the cheapest you can find.


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