i want to start a fg/ss forum...
 

a local one,
what is the best deal on hosting.. I found Globat for ~6.99/mo... is that good?

and should i use php bb (free) or vbulletin ($85/yr)

any tips?

Beware too-cheap hosting, sometimes the excess bandwidth charges are murder.

Vanilla has been 98% great and 2% baffling on chifg.com.

Vbulletin is nicer, more you can do. php is really simple. You would be fine with either. If you want to make a badass forum though Id go with vbulletin. Really just depends on how far you wanna take it.

Why?

Is Boise an untapped market of Fixed and SingleSpeeders?

i just wanted one place to go instead of all of these blogs and ****..

dcfixed and my shop's cross team have had good luck with vanilla.

flfixed.com uses Vanilla. Seems okay, but I didn't create it. Don't know about hosting but I've heard that some cheaper hosts like godaddy.com will overload servers with too many sites.

too bad you are local to me id help

****er

prick

that's why i hover before i click.

(for the record, i clicked anyway because that song makes me hot)

dick roll

Goddamn was that annoying.

Also: Dreamhost is cheap, Vanilla is simple and easy.

thanks. I'll give it a try and let you guys know how it goes.

So far I've been having good luck with asmallorange as the host to one of my websites. They have great shared plans.

As for a forum, you have a number of options. I've used punbb (minimalistic but excellent), SMF (good) and phpBB (very good). That is just a personal choice issue. You may also want to look into some of the content management systems like drupal or phpnuke.

philllyfixed.com uses dreamhost and vanilla. smooth sailing except when dreamhost goes down once a month for a couple hours

I built sdfixed.com with Vanilla. It's idiot-proof and very, very configurable.

The default set-up is very spare, but their extensions community is robust.

boifixed.com

it looks like ass.. so i need to figure out how to change it..
wish me luck .

anybody know how to change the header to something less dorky?

It's time to move on to another forum to get help with actually configure your site. You'll get a lot more answers more quickly here:

http://www.phpbb.com/

-ray