Help with making a forum

[manxspud]

Personally i would stay away from Vbull 5 ... have upped it and don't care for it. Vbull 4.2 on the other hand runs very well.

Running a forum is time consuming and takes a lot of hard work setting up. It can also be costly. Its also not a given it will take off ... so you could be just wasting your money.

My advice would be to look at using some free software to start off with like myBB, phpbb or simple machines ...You will need a domain name and some hosting ... look at some cheap shared hosting to start with.

The advantage to getting some cheap shared hosting and using one of the free forum software is you will get to play around with the admin side of things which is a lot different to the mod side ...

You will need to learn a few bits and bobs ... this way you can do it before laying out to much.

So reading your post again ... there is lots of hosting out there ... you need to think about content ... is normal shared hosting ok or will you need off shore hosting.

[johnboy1974]

Personally i would stay away from Vbull 5 ... have upped it and don't care for it. Vbull 4.2 on the other hand runs very well.

Running a forum is time consuming and takes a lot of hard work setting up. It can also be costly. Its also not a given it will take off ... so you could be just wasting your money.

My advice would be to look at using some free software to start off with like myBB, phpbb or simple machines ...You will need a domain name and some hosting ... look at some cheap shared hosting to start with.

The advantage to getting some cheap shared hosting and using one of the free forum software is you will get to play around with the admin side of things which is a lot different to the mod side ...

You will need to learn a few bits and bobs ... this way you can do it before laying out to much.

So reading your post again ... there is lots of hosting out there ... you need to think about content ... is normal shared hosting ok or will you need off shore hosting.

im not sure what kind of hosting i need but i know the forum should have between 100-200 members no more. it will be a private forum for taxi drivers working in glasgow.