From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 25 15:35:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8739C16A41F for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:35:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.net (fw1.wmptl.com [216.8.159.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F7F543D55 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:35:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from [10.0.0.104] (r3140ca.wmptl.net [10.0.0.104]) by wmptl.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k0PFZCMV055174; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:35:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <43D79ADD.6040604@wmptl.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:35:57 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Camp , questions@freebsd.org References: <20060125065632.K15276@aslan.camp.com> In-Reply-To: <20060125065632.K15276@aslan.camp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.111 () RATWR10_MESSID X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 Cc: Subject: Re: forum software / hosting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:35:25 -0000 Steve Camp wrote: > I need to setup a web forum for a friend, and sure could appreciate > some pointers. > > Some of my questions/issues include: > > 1) Which forum software runs on FreeBSD? > > By forum software, I am referring to programs such as > > o phpBB > o vBulletin by Jelsoft Personally, I HATE working with PHP... not to start flames or anything, call me 'old-school' if you will, but I prefer to seperate as much of the 'code' from the 'presentation' (html) as possible. I use a mod_perl'd version of mwForum under Apache, with a MySQL backend for my hosting customers. It allows me to setup multiple forums, can do polls/voting/etc, and gives great felxibility to 'virtually-hosted' forums/communities. Check out http://forum.tallyhoamusements.com/ (one of my customers' sites) - for bandwidth usages, check out http://forum.tallyhoamusements.com/stats/ to see what that forum actually uses. I've hacked some portions of the forum code for security/configuration reasons, but mwForum will work pretty much out-of-the-box on FreeBSD with Apache; using optimizations for mod_perl are a little trickier - but that's where experience pays off. > > 2) Suggestions for hosting services > > At a recent Colorado SAGE meeting, a fellow told me that hosting > services exist where I can get a "virtual Linux" box for $20/month > or so. I specify how much physical memory, disk space etc. that I > need, and I get a "virtual Linux" system, but for all intents and > purposes, it looks and acts like it's own system. > > Does FreeBSD have any similar ability to "virtualize"? > Are any hosting services offering FreeBSD servers for as little as > $15-25 / month? If not, for how little $/month might I find a > FreeBSD server hosted by someone else? Recommendations of hosting > services welcome. I looked into a lot of VPS options before I picked my providers; but in the end I found it cheaper/easier just to pay for a dedicated server alltogether. I pay roughly $100 / Canadian ( ~ $85 USD) per month for a dedicated 2Ghz+ machine w/ 80GB drive, 512Mb Ram, and 200Gb/month bandwidth. Email me off-list for details/providers if you'd like. I have servers currently in Chicago, Toronto, and New Jersey - all from different providers. > > 3) Is anyone familiar with web forum software? Can you point me to > any of: > > o Usenet groups > o Web forums for forum admins > o rules of thumb for estimating bandwidth requirements / > system sizing for estimated numbers of users? > > Many thanks, As mentioned above, I'd reccomend mwForum -> http://www.mwforum.org/ > > -- > Steve Camp > Camp Technologies, LLC > steve@camp.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Hope it helps. -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/