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09-02-09, 12:18 AM
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 You pay for server cost only; nothing else to pay. There are various packages that may be available to suit your requirements. Basically the cost depends upon the number of CPUs, memory, diskspace, etc.
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09-02-09, 12:52 AM
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| Platinum Member  Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Chennai
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Rep Power: 3  | @money_ms Web hosting service instead of posting here if you google you queries you will get more info in detail. |
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09-02-09, 06:10 AM
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 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Delhi Age: 32
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Rep Power: 12 | Mickey there is nothing secret about running a website... just about anyone can do it. I know a few kids who run this own blogs and get loads of visitors every day. Coming back to the point.. I dont know why are you guys so confused its fairly simple... will put it in simpler words again. You want to start up a forum> Buy a domain name from godaddy.com Buy a shared hosting package from hostgator.com (linux with cpanel) Buy your forum script from vbulletin.com or get it from phpbb Now you have all three things... Now you have the DNS from your hosting so just go to your control panel at godaddy and change dns for your domain to point it to your hosting... Your domain should start working in a few hours. Setting up vbulletin or phpbb? well like everything else on the net they come with installation instructions step by step and even a 5 year old can follow them. Now you have your forum up and running so you would need to set up the sub forums from the admin cp and you are good to go... All the above should not take you more then 30 mins from the word go and if you a new to all this and you keep screwing everything y9ou lay your hands on then may be 24 hours at the most so in a day you have a complete set up. Now all the above was easy... whats not so easy is getting visitors and there are a number of ways to bring people to your new forum that included paying per click to search engines in the begning and working on SEO to get traffic for free from search engines... you can advertise using banners on other websites. Having said all the above you might think that its fairly easy to set up a forum... I would say yes and no and the reason I say this is that it is simple to create a forum but to get visitors on the forum is both expensive and difficult as well as time consuming. |
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09-02-09, 06:45 AM
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| Alligator  Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Pleasure drome
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Rep Power: 10  | I have a question too. One of my friends is running a forum based on the phpbb. It's fairly new. He wants to know that in future, can he migrate the forum to Vbulletin script? P.S.- Hez very angry on me that I've posted only a single post in his forum in last 3-4 months.  |
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09-02-09, 07:28 AM
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| Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Delhi Age: 32
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Rep Power: 12 | Yes your friend can convert his forum to vbulletin using a script called impex but I would say sooner the better as all the url's would change and the whole forum would be indexed again by search engines and your friends forum will loose rankings for some time. |
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09-02-09, 07:51 AM
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| Alligator Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Pleasure drome
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Rep Power: 10 | Yes, that would have been my second question about the time-frame for migration. One more thing, VBulletin has released 3.8.4 version. I guess IBF is still running on 3.8.2 (it was recently upgraded). Is it really necessary to upgrade the script for security and other features? Does SEO improves with new versions if you don't have the services of VBSEO? Now, VBulletin guys are charging $180.  Thanks. |
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09-02-09, 08:24 AM
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| Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Delhi Age: 32
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Rep Power: 12 | Yes upgrading the script from time to time is a good diea as most of them include security patches. Vbulletin script in my opinion is not bad but vbseo enhances its ranking prospects. With newer versions vb is trying to cover some aspects of seo but no vbulletin's main concern is not seo its the functioning of the forum and usability that is their main aim. Vbseo script is pretty good and doesn't really cost too much either.. Vbulletin price has gone up to $180 ever since it got a new owner... Vbulletin was bought by another UK company recently. If you want to save up on some money then pay in British pounds and you will end up saving some money Last edited by Admin; 09-09-09 at 06:12 AM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost |
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09-02-09, 04:27 PM
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| Jedi knight  Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: IBF Age: 21
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Rep Power: 5 | NextBBS had more feature now I think check it out also. I too was planning for opening a forum for lug but I don't have much time. As for hosting search google. I think lunarpages is also good. |
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09-02-09, 04:42 PM
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| Jedi knight Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: IBF Age: 21
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Rep Power: 5 | Hostgator even don't support MS SQL( as data base) ASP.NET & JAVA. So it is best huh? |
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09-02-09, 09:12 PM
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| Silver Member  Join Date: May 2009 Location: A place god knows
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Rep Power: 3 | Ok to start a forum i have to invest more than 10 thousand Rs. what is outcome i get in first month. when it is establish than what is the outcome. |
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09-02-09, 09:21 PM
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you have to wait atleast 3-4 months, with consistent traffic and feeds..  you need to establish your major presence on net. this means you will have compitition with IBF and even if you hire me for spamming there, that wont work,.. Last edited by mickey; 09-02-09 at 09:21 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost | |
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09-02-09, 09:22 PM
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| Aadhavan is Coming  Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Leaving Chennai Age: 26
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09-02-09, 09:26 PM
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| Silver Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: A place god knows
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Rep Power: 3 | what is the outcome of establish forum. with 10 thousand member or more |
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09-03-09, 11:41 PM
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| Silver Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: A place god knows
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Rep Power: 3 | just4kix can u answer the post #35 |
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