Please Help

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 10:32 pm (21 years, 10 months ago)

Hi,

I hope that i am posting this in the correct place. If not tell me and i'll move it.

I'm looking for a host for the PHPBB. Hopefully free. Not to worried about the bandwith or size (other than big enought to house 600+ members and their posts)

Been looking for best part of 2 weeks and only just found this site!!!!

Thanks

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Something free would be difficult to find, but then you say that you have 600 members. Are they active members, or is there usually something like 1-2 members online?

Also, if you have to pay, how much are you willing to spend?

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 9:05 pm (21 years, 10 months ago)

At the moment the most i have had online at anyone time has been about 10-15.

I am looking for somewere to house a development site so that i can make changes away from the real site and then match the two up at a later date.

Re paying. I think that about £20 pa would be about enough.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Oh, one more question: how big is your database right now, and how much do you think it will grow in the next year or so?

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:21 am (21 years, 10 months ago)

Erm,

At the moment i dont have one the site is hosted on msn and i am moving it as it is getting too big and complicated for the simple features they have.

The PHPBB board would be used everyday with an average of about 15-12 posts per day. On a good day i have had to deal with over 50 posts in a day.

Sorry i cant help in terms of size etc but as i said above the site is on MSN!!

One other thing. The 600 members has been over the last 7 months and is constantly being added to at a rate of about 5 per day.

Thanks

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

OK, two solutions for you then (that I would recommend):

If your site is about something "interesting": Go to WebHostingTalk, and post in the Web Hosting Requests forum. You might find someone nice enough to host you for free.
Pay for your hosting. At 34SP (http://www.34SP.com/) you can get 30 mb space and 1gb transfer for £15/year, or 50 mb space and 1,5 gb transfer for £25/year.