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| Thread ID: 54542 | 2005-02-15 05:11:00 | Web Hosting and Bulletin Board software | scarfie (7324) | Press F1 |
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| 325236 | 2005-02-15 22:35:00 | Anyone with any expertise in estimating storage and bandwidth requirements for discussion boards Two boards I can advise on are: www.aardvarkforums.co.nz/forums uses +/- 2gigs per month. www.forcenz.com/forum uses +/- 800megs per month The boards' bandwidth useage is very dependent on number of page views - ergo the more popular they are, the more the server chews through. Both forums have most/all bandwidth intensive features disabled; therefore I estimate about 50% more bandwidth if they're fully featured. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 325237 | 2005-02-15 22:49:00 | Anyone with any expertise in estimating storage and bandwidth requirements for discussion boards Forgot to mention - the storage on disk is pretty minimal... 15 - 25 megs for the two I quoted above. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 325238 | 2005-02-15 23:39:00 | www.jethost.net.nz I am on a plan better than that (50GB transfer instead of 5GB) but for free, mwahaha. If your looking to just host a forum, maybe a free remotely hosted forum (www.thefreecountry.com) might be useful |
sal (67) | ||
| 325239 | 2005-02-16 01:12:00 | If you don't have to use an NZ company then www.websitesource.net/ are pretty good, very cheap and they offer PostgreSQL as well as MySQL on their base accounts. I've used their shared $6.85 p hosting and it runs well in my experience. | Miranda (6594) | ||
| 325240 | 2005-02-16 02:15:00 | Cool - lots more very useful replies. Greg, yes I thought the hard storage would be low - mainly text after all - but some way to estimate traffic based on hits is obviously essential when shopping for the plan. Will follow up all leads, cheers. |
scarfie (7324) | ||
| 325241 | 2005-02-16 02:30:00 | PS Greg (or anyone else), I note that those two links you posted were boards using PHPBB - any thoughts on this vs SNITZ Forums? | scarfie (7324) | ||
| 325242 | 2005-02-16 02:43:00 | I've had good luck with Lycos UK. It supports the (SQL) PHPBB2 Bulletin Board software. It's free so there are annoying ads, but not that bad. http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/ http://www.phpbb.com/ |
Justin (4360) | ||
| 325243 | 2005-02-16 16:38:00 | I am looking at setting up a web site in the near furture and will probably look at this Hosting service www.mysitespace.com There plans looked very good (not that I am any expert on this). Dave |
Davoid (6918) | ||
| 325244 | 2005-02-16 20:55:00 | some way to estimate traffic based on hits is obviously essential when shopping for the plan . Hard to estimate in advance, but easy to do retrospectively . On my ForceNZ forum, in January it had: 1130 unique vistors, who visited 2691 times, viewing 18699 pages . This equated to 69729 hits, and consumed 750MB of bandwidth . Therefore 285 KB per visit . :thumbs: Bandwidth per hit is easily calculated, but less relevant . Re Snitz - no idea sorry . |
Greg (193) | ||
| 325245 | 2005-02-16 21:28:00 | Thank you Greg - I am now leaning towards phpBB as software of choice. Your info is most helpful. Ditto to all who have posted links re hosting services etc. | scarfie (7324) | ||
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