phpbb help

**Armatus** · July 30, 2011, 11:26 PM

I'm wondering how easy or hard it would be to port a forum running an earlier version of phpbb over to say sms or something else.

Edit: maybe this should go in the basement?

**Hader** · July 31, 2011, 03:31 PM

Moved to the Basement

**GrnEyedDvl** · July 31, 2011, 10:21 PM

Most forums have an import tool to import from other versions. I assume you meant smf forum and not sms?

http://download.simplemachines.org/?converters

**Armatus** · August 01, 2011, 09:34 PM

oh right, so any recommendations on hosts?

**Bolkonsky** · August 04, 2011, 08:32 PM

Dreamhost and Hostgator aren't bad. Zymic is free.

**Armatus** · August 04, 2011, 10:09 PM

I heard bad things about dreamhost some years back so I went with bluehost which was ok, nothing spectacular and they were similar to dreamhost, in fact not sure if they might have been the same company at one point, maybe I'm way off on that.

**Bolkonsky** · August 06, 2011, 03:57 PM

Not to my knowledge, Dreamhost's a little indie company. I haven't had any complaints with them, they're better than the other load of free hosts I've tried. They're very communicative and really pack a small business feel.

**Armatus** · August 06, 2011, 05:25 PM

I always wanted to try a server from rack space just for the 'fanatical support' lol

**Bolkonsky** · August 07, 2011, 08:33 PM

Then you're talking expenses. Physical hardware, even if you're just renting == shell out the $$$$

**GrnEyedDvl** · August 08, 2011, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by Armatus

I always wanted to try a server from rack space just for the 'fanatical support' lol

Originally Posted by Bolkonsky

Then you're talking expenses. Physical hardware, even if you're just renting == shell out the $$$$

You can get off pretty cheap on this as well, depending what your needs are. Find a used 1U machine, I found a list posted today on Craigslist.

http://denver.craigslist.org/sys/2516064144.html

Machine #8 is a dual/dual AMD (4 processors) with 8 gigs of RAM for $150. Thats not bad at all for getting into server hardware. Find a good colocation host and you can get in pretty cheap as well. The TWC host is $25 per month per each U of rackspace, and they will throw in 1mbps bandwidth. Thats in the neighborhood of 250 gigs of bidirectional transfer.

If you are looking at hosting a website similar to TWC, that machine will handle quite a bit. Thats bigger than loki was, and we used that server for something like 3 years until we outgrew it.

**Bolkonsky** · August 10, 2011, 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by GrnEyedDvl

You can get off pretty cheap on this as well, depending what your needs are. Find a used 1U machine, I found a list posted today on Craigslist.

http://denver.craigslist.org/sys/2516064144.html

Machine #8 is a dual/dual AMD (4 processors) with 8 gigs of RAM for $150. Thats not bad at all for getting into server hardware. Find a good colocation host and you can get in pretty cheap as well. The TWC host is $25 per month per each U of rackspace, and they will throw in 1mbps bandwidth. Thats in the neighborhood of 250 gigs of bidirectional transfer.

If you are looking at hosting a website similar to TWC, that machine will handle quite a bit. Thats bigger than loki was, and we used that server for something like 3 years until we outgrew it.

Damn I wish I lived out there. A server like that on Craigslist where I live would run me up ~$1000, I guess because most of the server farms are out west or something. And the only colocation center near me was ~$100/mo minimum the last time I checked. (Which was a few months ago.)

**Armatus** · August 07, 2011, 08:46 PM

yeah dedicated server, that would actually not be good for this board, games on the otherhand

**Armatus** · August 09, 2011, 10:12 PM

That's pretty cheap and a lot more cost effective than things used to be 10 years ago lol...

**GrnEyedDvl** · August 10, 2011, 10:51 AM

I think as more and more places go fiber that bandwidth costs will keep coming down. The real problem is that as they come down, file sizes also get larger so there is no real savings. Just look at games, now they are in the neighborhood of 20 gigs in size. All the media files and podcasts and everything else the world uses today use a lot more bandwidth, so any savings in bandwidth per mbps are eaten up by the number and size of files.

**GrnEyedDvl** · August 10, 2011, 01:35 PM

If you want me to pick you something up let me know, and I can ship it to you or install it here someplace.

**Bolkonsky** · August 10, 2011, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by GrnEyedDvl

If you want me to pick you something up let me know, and I can ship it to you or install it here someplace.

I may take you up on that someday. At the moment, I just dropped $80 into some deprecated hardware (for personal use) so it'll be a bit before I upgrade. Thanks for the offer though!

**Armatus** · August 10, 2011, 11:01 PM

I might consider that too! and working for a cable ISP I know exactly what you're talking about regarding bandwidth. There's going to be a lot of new things coming down "the pipe" (no pun) ...the days of net neutrality are pretty much ending.