On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 06:15 pm, Kevin Tarr wrote:Okay, really the last: My hometown has a message board/forum. They were seeking donations to keep it open. While the price was nominal I was wondering how much it really costs to operate something like this. I'm not considering this as a business venture, but I'm wondering along these lines: if someone in their house set up a computer that was dedicated for a forum what would it take to do correctly? Could an older 'puter do it with a different OS?
Yes.
I'm not worried about the costs, unless it was astronomical. If a person already has a cable modem and a router, other than the computer cost and the electricity (and the time) it should be free, right?
Yes. Something like phpBB/Apache/MySQL.
We should be able to get a free URl, because it's not for profit? I'm probably very confused about this.
Maybe $5 to $10 a year with website and email-forwarding.
William T Goodall
Just so I'm not reading this wrong: I don't want e-mail forwarding. I want a forum web-posting site. The usual bells and whistles: searchable post archive, maybe a naughty word filter, other than blocking service attacks, letting unregistered users post (unless the member list could be kept really secure), and a few non-local people have access to be able to delete posts and topics for the obvious reasons.
5 or 10 is a lot lower than the 80 the current board is asking for.
Kevin T. - VRWC back outside
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