how to start a forum

[money_ms]

Hi everyone

I have few ABC questions {basic question}.
All questions are childish.
But for me these questions are very useful.
I want to start Forum. So please answer my questions.

Following questions

1. How can I open, an open-forum.
2. Which software is good to control the forum.
3. How much I have to invest.
4. How forum works.
5. How we get advertises.
6. How we earn.



Please reply, for u these are only few questions but for me this is new world to thing.

You can also referrer me some – books and websites links for these questions.

[meetdilip]

Please go through

http://www.indiabroadband.net/web-ho...ion-sites.html (Free Forum Creation Sites)

You can either create a free forum or get a paid software like vbulletin.

[money_ms]

Originally Posted by meetdilip

Please go through

http://www.indiabroadband.net/web-ho...ion-sites.html (Free Forum Creation Sites)

You can either create a free forum or get a paid software like vbulletin.

meetdilip can you explain

difference between paid and free forum.

what is vbulletin ?

[meetdilip]

This forum runs on V bulletin software. You need to pay to get a V Bulletin licence. There are software like phpBB and SMF which are free.

To start a forum, you need,

1. Domain - Either paid or free

2. Hosting - Paid or Free

3. Software - Paid or Free

According to your budget, you can decide whether free or paid suites your need.

The link in previous post will give you links to a no. of free forum creating sites.

If you use V bulletin software, you get a forum like this. You can use a different theme which satisfies your appeal.

[Admin]

1. How can I open, an open-forum.

You need to buy a domain name, hosting and a forum script either free of paid.


2. Which software is good to control the forum.
In my opinion vbulletin is the best one and costs $150 for an owned liscence.

3. How much I have to invest.
Domain name: $10 (per year) hosting about $10 per month forum script $150 and then $30 something per year for upgrades.



4. How forum works.
Forum works as in?


5. How we get advertises.
You can sign up with Google adsense or other networks as well.


6. How we earn.
Mostly advertising and if you have a premium service you could charge a membership fee as well. It really depends what niche it is.
Forums are not that great revenue generators from advertising as a huge percentage of the visitors is repeat visitors who are ads blind.

[money_ms]

How much V Bulletin licence cost.

what is the full cost to establish this type of forum.

somebody told me that u also own a forum.

@admin thanks for brilliant reply.


@meetdiplil thanks ur reply is also brilliant.

long way to go for me

[Admin]

All your questions are already answered... please read my reply again.

[money_ms]

what is Domain name?

where i buy V Bulletin licence?

[mickey]

domain name is xyzabc.com you have to purchase this name which masks your website's ip and gives it a rememberable name..

where to get domain??i use Indialinks.. they are one of the best in India,
i lost one domain on 13th and my email users are barking on me.



vbulletin license is available at their site.. (i dont know about it )

Originally Posted by Admin

3. How much I have to invest.
Domain name: $10 (per year) hosting about $10 per month forum script $150 and then $30 something per year for upgrades.


.

i will cut down on the ISD calls and International messages i make to that Russian.

[money_ms]

thanks mickey .

where the Forum data store?

[just4kix]

The forum, its software, members' registration info, threads/posts, etc. everything is the data. It is stored on the hosting site provider. For example, the hosting provider for this forum is hostgator.com.

When you sign up for hosting, they will give you a server with disk space for you and give you a telnet and ftp access. This server is like a virtual server (tip: seek more info on vitualization and VMWare). It is as if you own a server now.

With this server you can now do anything you like.

In case of forum software, the best are vBulletin (paid) and phpBB (free). When you download the forum software, you get the forum installation script. You need to ftp this script to the host and run this script there and the forum is now up and running.

[money_ms]

Originally Posted by just4kix

The forum, its software, members' registration info, threads/posts, etc. everything is the data. It is stored on the hosting site provider. For example, the hosting provider for this forum is hostgator.com.

When you sign up for hosting, they will give you a server with disk space for you and give you a telnet and ftp access. This server is like a virtual server (tip: seek more info on vitualization and VMWare). It is as if you own a server now.

@ just4kix thanks for valuable input.

can you explain more hosting site provider.

how to sign up?

i have to pay for data store or not?

[mickey]

Originally Posted by just4kix

The forum, its software, members' registration info, threads/posts, etc. everything is the data. It is stored on the hosting site provider. For example, the hosting provider for this forum is hostgator.com.

When you sign up for hosting, they will give you a server with disk space for you and give you a telnet and ftp access. This server is like a virtual server (tip: seek more info on vitualization and VMWare). It is as if you own a server now.

With this server you can now do anything you like.

In case of forum software, the best are vBulletin (paid) and phpBB (free). When you download the forum software, you get the forum installation script. You need to ftp this script to the host and run this script there and the forum is now up and running.

whats the need to tell so much info??

[just4kix]

You mean I shouldn't?

[money_ms]

Originally Posted by mickey

whats the need to tell so much info??

why .

[mickey]

Originally Posted by just4kix

You mean I shouldn't?

i dont think we need to hue-cry the server setups/domain provider/host etc to just anyone that way..
indeed whats heroic in discussing these things??

[money_ms]

Originally Posted by mickey

whats the need to tell so much info??

Originally Posted by mickey

i dont think we need to hue-cry the server setups/domain provider/host etc to just anyone that way..
indeed whats heroic in discussing these things??

I can not get you man.
what is you are trying to say.


As i said in my post#1 This is totally new world to thing.

only you people guide me.

that is why i have so many questions

[mickey]

arrey it was not pointed towards you...

i was just telling him to refrain from posting website's private infos..just to anyone..

[money_ms]

thanks for reply

[just4kix]

Originally Posted by mickey

arrey it was not pointed towards you...

i was just telling him to refrain from posting website's private infos..just to anyone..

What private info have I posted here?

That this forum is hosted on hostgator? Anyone can find that out and besides that information was published by Admin himself once.

All public info about this site can be viewed at WhoIs.com, My IP address? Free IP Address tracer, IP address lookup, IP address finder, Alexa, etc.

So stop being paranoid