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ben chi(f4)

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Has anyone set up forums hosted from their house? If so, where did you get the reading material for setup? I'll need IIS/other service right?
 
You need a webserver (IIS, Apache, etc) a DB of some type (likely MySQL), and a forum package (PHPBB, VBulletin, etc). That's the software side of it. I've got to ask, why do you want to do this out of your home when you clearly don't have a clue what you are doing? (I ask this in the nicest way possible :D) Harware/Network are a completely separate list of requirements.
 
supergper said:
I've got to ask, why do you want to do this out of your home when you clearly don't have a clue what you are doing? (I ask this in the nicest way possible :D)
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Actually know what I'm doing Network/Software/Hardware side (I do it for a living), but I've never installed forums before from my house so I was asking to see if I had everything I needed and thanks for being a nice guy.
 
Just plan and monitor your modem's upload bandwidth since your upload rate is limited and depending on amount of traffic you may be unhappily surprised with the response time--while it may perform fast on your home network.
 
I would not host a forum from home, you expose not only much of your security vulnerabilities, but your internet connection will make it mediocre.. also any modem downtime will result in forum downtime.

You can purchase a web hosting account for pennies per month and then use that as your forum software platform.

If you are using this to learn or for some small clan or group, then a home forum will suffice.
 
lighttpd or apache, php4 or 5, mysql, and the forum software you want to use.

I just did a standard LAMP set (can be found at howtoforge.com), and downloaded the forum software.
 
Do yourself a favor and don't use PHP4, it's been EOLed for almost a year and won't be receiving any more updates (for real this time, I'm told).
 
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