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Hi all. I am a total newbie when it comes to building and starting a web forum. However, I have been a participant on web forums for over a decade. I have finally decided to build one or two of my own.
The ideas for forums have been around a long time and have purchased domain names long ago, but I have always put it off as it seems too damn complicated to even get started. Yesterday I got inspired and jumped in with both feet. I bought a license to vBulletin 5 Connect (as vBulletin is the only forum software I will consider based on my years as a user) and I signed up for a year's worth of hosting over at Godaddy.com Then I tried to get it going...
Needless to say, I ended back up on the internet looking for answers, which led me here, which led me to the bad news about Godaddy. Fortunately, it was pretty easy to cancel my Godaddy accounts and get my money back today. That leaves me with where to go now?
I have used Google and also the search function here. I've also searched on some of my regular forums as people there seem to know about web hosting as well. Sadly, there seems to be no clear stand out winner, or dominate recommendation for any particular one service. It seems that each service has a fan or two and a hater or two.
About my planned site/s- I am going to build at least one automotive type forum, possible two if the first doesn't kill me. I have no idea if they will be popular and take off or not. For this reason, I'd like to keep the monthly fees to a minimum and upgrade later as needed. Most seem to be shared "unlimited" plans with reasonable prices, however I know some here have said the "unlimited" plans really aren't and they aren't that good. Anyhow, to try to narrow this down, listed below servers (in no particular order) that either came up first on a Google search for vBulletin hosting, or got good reviews, or were mentioned here. Some claim to be specialists in vBulletin. Any feed back, positive, or negative on any of them would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much for reading all the way through this!
The ideas for forums have been around a long time and have purchased domain names long ago, but I have always put it off as it seems too damn complicated to even get started. Yesterday I got inspired and jumped in with both feet. I bought a license to vBulletin 5 Connect (as vBulletin is the only forum software I will consider based on my years as a user) and I signed up for a year's worth of hosting over at Godaddy.com Then I tried to get it going...
Needless to say, I ended back up on the internet looking for answers, which led me here, which led me to the bad news about Godaddy. Fortunately, it was pretty easy to cancel my Godaddy accounts and get my money back today. That leaves me with where to go now?
I have used Google and also the search function here. I've also searched on some of my regular forums as people there seem to know about web hosting as well. Sadly, there seems to be no clear stand out winner, or dominate recommendation for any particular one service. It seems that each service has a fan or two and a hater or two.
About my planned site/s- I am going to build at least one automotive type forum, possible two if the first doesn't kill me. I have no idea if they will be popular and take off or not. For this reason, I'd like to keep the monthly fees to a minimum and upgrade later as needed. Most seem to be shared "unlimited" plans with reasonable prices, however I know some here have said the "unlimited" plans really aren't and they aren't that good. Anyhow, to try to narrow this down, listed below servers (in no particular order) that either came up first on a Google search for vBulletin hosting, or got good reviews, or were mentioned here. Some claim to be specialists in vBulletin. Any feed back, positive, or negative on any of them would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much for reading all the way through this!
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