PHPBB Hosting

[PeterWatts]

Hi,

I am now trying to start with PHPBB Forums. expect 300-500 users, however, not sure how many would be active members. Can anyone here help me to find out the best suitable plan?

[Amelia]

Hi Peter,

In my opinion, a VPS plan should be good enough to start with. As the website needs more resources, you can upgrade to the next higher plan.

I hope this helps.

[Martin]

As suggested by Amelia, you can consider our VPS plan to start with. I would suggest you to consider VPS with cPanel/WHM. This will allow you to install PHPBB through Fantastico. It will be easier for you to manage your VPS and forum or website, if you have cPanel/WHM.

Do let us know if you have any more questions.

[PeterWatts]

Thank you very much Amelia and Martin.

I'll get it, once I am ready

[Prowess]

I was just about PHPBB forums. I have saw a many of them lately as well as simple machines and I wonder which I should go with?

[centelo]

I think most people prefer the different preferences each forum software allows for, both are similar (in being free) but some allows for certain things while the other does not. Just the same the extras (addons) are a good reason most I know choice what they do too. I prefer SMF, but I have been an SMF user for many years too, hard to teach an old dog new tricks. :D

[Prowess]

Originally Posted by centelo

I think most people prefer the different preferences each forum software allows for, both are similar (in being free) but some allows for certain things while the other does not. Just the same the extras (addons) are a good reason most I know choice what they do too. I prefer SMF, but I have been an SMF user for many years too, hard to teach an old dog new tricks. :D

Does SMF offer customizable templates and the options to give a rating system to the poster so that say one poster is good at providing information I could allow to give them a reputation such as a thank you button for posters to use and does it offer HTML use to posters?

[Cherry]

Hi Prowess, I am researching this as well. From what I can tell, SMF offers all the things you just asked. They have applaud and smite buttons which give or take karma. I'm fairly sure they have an option to allow OR disallow HTML as well.

[Thomas]

Hi Prowess, With respect to your questions I have tried to answer them below:

Originally Posted by Prowess

Does SMF offer customizable templates

Yes, you can customize the templates in SMF

and the options to give a rating system to the poster so that say one poster is good at providing information I could allow to give them a reputation

SMF has a Karma System, you can applaud and smite to a user to give or take Karma points from them.

such as a thank you button for posters to use

There is also a Mod, through which you can just Thank the user and avoid unnecessary spam messages such as "", "Thanks", etc in the thread.

and does it offer HTML use to posters?

You can allow the users some basic HTML codes in SMF such as

< b >, < u >, < i >, < s >, < em >, < ins >, < del >
< a href = " " >
< i m g s r c = " " a l t = " " / >
< b r / > , < h r / >
< p r e > , < b l o c k q u o t e >

Had to include spaces between the codes, as it was not allowing to post them.