Running a Board

[alienspunk]

I've been a mod on two message boards that was powered by something like vb, all others were free places like ezboard.com.

I'm considering adding a vb powered forum to my website, but I will need to move the whole site to a host that allows php (right now I'm getting free space from geocities). Before I start saving money to purchase a vb license, I have a couple of questions:

1.) What are a few good cost-efficient hosts that work well with vb?
2.) Do I need to have any kind of special Internet access? That is, will I need my computer to be signed on all the time, or can everything work off of the hosting server?

I've been a member at a forum that uses vb (see signature), and I've really grown to like vb.


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[Mark.B]

I use this one:

http://www.imagelinkusa.net

Very cheap, and very good. My board gets around 500 posts a day and ran for 18 months on XMB before changing to vBulletin. They have coped with both just fine.

[alienspunk]

Thanks, but how about question two? Will my computer need to be online all the time?

[[FG]Omega]

@ question 2: online all the time? No. The files are stored somewhere else (your host) so you don't need to be online.