I am familar with building web pages etc. but have never set up a web bulletin board. I frequent another site that runs off v Bulletin and like the format, reliability etc., and have been asked if I could set up a site of my own.
The only ISP I have is Comcast and permission for personal web pages, so not sure if I can run the board s/w on their site or not...question one. Is this possible or desireable? I would anticipate maybe 50 people accessing the board I am thinking of doing, so traffic would not be very heavy.
They have a domain name already, so I won't need to acquire one.
If I need to seek out an ISP server where I can run the board, what is the best way to do this? What kind of ballpark costs would something like this run? I don't think I'll have any issues of installing s/w and maintaining the board s/w but I'm totally in the dark as far as where to get started to get server space etc.
Thanks
The only ISP I have is Comcast and permission for personal web pages, so not sure if I can run the board s/w on their site or not...question one. Is this possible or desireable? I would anticipate maybe 50 people accessing the board I am thinking of doing, so traffic would not be very heavy.
They have a domain name already, so I won't need to acquire one.
If I need to seek out an ISP server where I can run the board, what is the best way to do this? What kind of ballpark costs would something like this run? I don't think I'll have any issues of installing s/w and maintaining the board s/w but I'm totally in the dark as far as where to get started to get server space etc.
Thanks
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