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Web Hosting/Making a Forum

MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
edited May 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I'm going to be starting a new Wow guild soon and I'd like to put together a site whicih will mostly consist of a forum, with a front page for "news" posts and such.

So two questions:

1. Can anyone give advice/recommendations for a web hosting service? This will be a small guild, so not a ton of people visiting the site.
2. Can anyone explain to me how to set up a forum once I procure said webhosting? I know you have to set up a database or some such thing, but I'm pretty hazy on the details. Once it's set up I have a good handle on admining it, as I've done that before in a previous guild.

Thanks in advance.

Addendum: Ventrilo servers?

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  • Xenocide GeekXenocide Geek Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    http://www.nrgservers.net/index.html

    I'm fairly certain that nrgservers will solve all your problems.

    They have a very low bandwidth webspace in their Ventrilo packages.

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited May 2007
    siteground.com uses the fantastico plugin which can auto configure a PHPBB forum and Word Press blog system, and you really don't need to know anything about databases, just what the password is, which you can get from the CPanel.


    I use SiteGround. They are "alright" They give me a lot of bandwidth and space.

    The only thing I don't like is I only have one MySQL database, so all my stuff goes in one dbase I have to keep track of table names and stuff for all of the applications I make, but you probably won't be worrying about that.

    Also, their tech support is lame, but you can't have everything.

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2007
    Hmm that's helpful. What kind of problems have you had with them?

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Their domain name management system is stupid. Basically I bought these two domain names and for some reason they weren't working, I contacted them thrice and it took me 3 months to realize that they don't E-MAIL you customer service responses, they put them in some sort of account inbox that they don't notify you if you got a response in.

    I found out they weren't working because they charge you 10 dollars on top of the cost of the domain to point it at your site basically, which is a ripoff, but I'm too busy to move all of my shit over to a new host at the moment.

    But really, in your case they would make the whole forum/front page thing really easy for you, assuming they are in your price range.

    If not, just look for a host with "Fantastico" as a feature, that tool does lots of neat auto-installer things.

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    this is a discord of mostly PA people interested in fighting games: https://discord.gg/DZWa97d5rz

    we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
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