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01-17-2014, 01:47 AM #1Newbie
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Looking for hoster with forum
Hello everyone
I am new to the web hosting world and I am looking for a hoster with a forum functionality.
At the moment I own a mountain bike forum with some rubbish portal as a maingate. The global functionalities of the portal are very poor and very limited. I am restricted to their layout and I am only allowed to upload some images and change the colors. The forum is quite ok but it isn't compatible with Tapatalk and has some unwanted ads.
The idea is to build a new website with some new pages and more functionalities. For example the main page would have a navigation (forum, calendar, news, trail map, reviews, etc) and a body with some news, highlights and articles.
Right now I am designing this new website (excl. the forum) in Dreamweaver. The original idea was to host this website and then link the forum just in the navigation, keeping it in a different domain. But now I have changed my mind and decided that maybe it would be better to keep everything together in the same host. Maybe even being able to navigate with the same account throughout the whole website and being able to comment some articles.
Where can I find a hoster to accommodate my web site and forum at the same time?
Thanks
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01-17-2014, 01:53 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Could you clarify on the following?
What is your budget?
How much resources do you anticipate to use?
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01-17-2014, 02:11 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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All host provide these basic features. You can install any free / paid forum script like vbulletin / xenforo / myBB etc.
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01-17-2014, 02:14 AM #4Newbie
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I intend to spend as little money as possible.
I think I won't be needing much resources as there will be no media database. It will be mainly text and pictures from articles, news and page layout. The pictures from the forum are all direct links.
I'm from Portugal so I guess anything EU West should be okay.
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01-17-2014, 02:21 AM #5Newbie
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01-17-2014, 03:12 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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It's very easy to install just about any forum script these days. Also most of them come with read me if not google is your friend . There are many guides out there on how to install and modify these forum scripts.
Some hosts have free script installers which is what you would use to install any. Free forum software on the account you purchase with a few clicks.
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01-17-2014, 03:57 AM #7Retired Moderator
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Not as active on WHT as I used to be, but still drop in and receive email notifications from here.
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01-17-2014, 10:52 AM #8Newbie
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01-17-2014, 10:58 AM #9Disabled
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You can install a forum of your liking to your new host just with a click of a button through the host's application installer.
However the forum migration might be difficult.
Could you give us more technical details on the existing board so we can see if it can be upgraded or migrated somehow ?
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01-17-2014, 11:04 AM #10Newbie
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01-17-2014, 11:09 AM #11Newbie
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Yes, I can! I was just waiting to have 5 posts so I could have permissions to post links.
This is the portal: http://6polegadas.forumeiros.com/
To access the forum press "Início" in the navigation: http://6polegadas.forumeiros.com/forum
It's phpBB2 version.
BTW, here is a small preview to how the new website will look in the future:
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/89/n4ff.jpg
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01-17-2014, 12:33 PM #12Newbie
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What about a forum that allows me to create new html pages? Wouldn't that do the trick? Maybe it would be simpler this way.
Something that would allow me to fully costumize the forum interface and let me create a new navigation with new html pages. I think that would work nicely.
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01-17-2014, 12:37 PM #13Retired Moderator
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If you ran a forum on any normal (not feature-crippled) shared hosting account, you'd be able to create new html pages yourself. I'm sure there are forum suites out there that let you create static pages from within the forum backend, but I'm no expert in forum software to tell you which ones to use for that.
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01-17-2014, 12:52 PM #14Hello World
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You want to consider using PHPBB forum software it's fantastic and easy to use.
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01-17-2014, 12:55 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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Almost any shared host will do it, make a shortlist about the host that you like and then research about them on this forum (avoid any kind of "top 10 host list" as a part of your research.
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01-17-2014, 01:08 PM #16Newbie
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01-17-2014, 01:11 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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