Msg Board questions for all you Techies out there

[charlotte49er]

I'm starting a msg bard. Has nothing to do with sports, or women, so no competition for the Huddle. (I know if it doesn't have women, why join? :rolleyes:)

Gold Prospecting & Metal detecting MSg board.

OK, vBulletin or phpBB?

Do I need a stand alone computer or does someone else host it? I do have a 3.6 Quad Core Desktop with 1 terra byte hard drive and either 8 or 10 gig of RAM. It's just sitting here collecting dust.

How much programming do I need to know, or is it "Plug & Play/Template?"

The only programming I know is Fortran IV & Basic. And it's been so long, I'm not every sure I remember those! :eek:

But I can hand pretty good with "Plug & Play/Template" type sites.

Zod? Anyone? Any and all suggestions are welcome. I'll even supply the beer!:cheers2:

[MCP]

Since no one else has responded, I will throw in what I know. I have run both phpBB, and VBull boards. Liked them both. Vbull costs $$ phpBB is free. Vbull has dedicated suport, phpBB, has has plenty of user support foums out there, so you can get the help you need on either one.

If you pay to have some one host it (host gator/Godaddy/etc.) you don't need any hardware, other than a pc to access your account.

you can do just fine without any programming knowledge.

there are plenty of plug and play templates for both, but they are also as user definable as you want to make them. both have tones of additional feature plugins, pretty much if you can think of it, there is a plug in to do it on either platform.

You really can't go wrong with either one.

[charlotte49er]

Great!

I am leaning towards vBull, only because of being a newbie and if I screw something up, I want someone to talk me through fixing it. vBull V 4.0 Suite is only $285. I'm not sure, but I think you get a 30 day trail before you have to buy it.

I just this afternoon, got my name through Go Daddy.

What about e-mail accounts. Some forums I have been on won't let you register if you have a free e-mail. (Yahoo, Hotmail, gmail) Supposed to keep down spammers. With all the free e-mail accounts, I'm not sure that's a good thing.

[Razzy]

Best of luck Sports! Prospecting indeed sounds like plenty of fun, but a lot of hard work. Hopefully your board takes off.

[Seamonk]

if you can afford it, go with vbulletin. I remember trying to set up a phpbb forum when i was like 13, it's not hard by any means but i think you'll value the vbulletin support as a first time user.

[charlotte49er]

Thanks all. vBulletin it is.

[Hotsauce]

$50 says Sports Talk's new name on his new site will be called...

Gold Talk!

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