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[Falesh]

I've been asked to look into setting up a forum for a charity. It's probably going to start very small but it may grow. I am wondering what the best type of hosting for it would be. I'm not worried about bandwidth or hard drive space, but I am unsure about a forum's CPU and memory demands. Would it be a sensible thing to host through my reseller, or do forums require a more specialised package?

Many thanks,
John

[Pumazooma]

Yep that's exactly what I'm on and it copes very well.

[paul]

Originally Posted by Falesh

I've been asked to look into setting up a forum for a charity. It's probably going to start very small but it may grow. I am wondering what the best type of hosting for it would be. I'm not worried about bandwidth or hard drive space, but I am unsure about a forum's CPU and memory demands. Would it be a sensible thing to host through my reseller, or do forums require a more specialised package?

Many thanks,
John

phpbb could be best to start charity related forum that you are looking for & for hosting possibly you should go for VPS especially you are expecting to grow fast otherwise go for share hosting.

[jon123]

forums aren't cpu hungry these days, i once had 3 forums on one simple hosting account. 2 were quite busy.
I know of a few very busy forums on standard hosting packages and they never have any problems. submariners.co.uk for one.

[Pumazooma]

Originally Posted by paul

phpbb could be best to start charity related forum that you are looking for & for hosting possibly you should go for VPS especially you are expecting to grow fast otherwise go for share hosting.

I think you must have deleted your post and redone it after I replied to it

I was saying, yes I'm on phpBB and with the shared linux hosting it runs very well.

[Falesh]

Thanks for the help, I think I'll stick it on my reseller and keep monitoring it for growth.

[paul]

Originally Posted by Pumazooma

I think you must have deleted your post and redone it after I replied to it

I was saying, yes I'm on phpBB and with the shared linux hosting it runs very well.

Yes, I noticed your post just when I deleted earlier post , sorry for that, I agree with you for start over phpBB under shared linux hosting is the best.

[teddybear]

Starting a forum is often touch and go, so a shared or reseller account will help you to avoid spending more money on hosting services.
I'd just go for a hosting account with phpbb installed for you.

[James]

Shared hosting plan is good enough to start a phpbb forum and as the traffic and the server resources consumption increases you may upgrade to higher hosting plans as per your requirements.

[paul]

Originally Posted by James

Shared hosting plan is good enough to start a phpbb forum and as the traffic and the server resources consumption increases you may upgrade to higher hosting plans as per your requirements.

Yes that's true and this hosting package comes with cheaper prices, good for starter.

[hayku]

Is PHP free forum sopftware?

[Pumazooma]

phpBB is free yes.

[paul]

Originally Posted by hayku

Is PHP free forum sopftware?

I guess you're asking about PHPBB, yes it is free software thats comes under GNU General Public License.