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newbizhelp
March 27th, 2002, 15:53
Help! Help! Help!

First off.. YES! I have done a search..

Second...Please Help!

Q: We are getting a "members only area" where we will have a forum,& chat (both community & one on one option) where they have to login with a username.

We have linux hosting.. Our programmer says we need Windows Hosting for him to do everything in Access with script serving etc.

He's talking about it taking about 15 days if we switch servers, longer if we keep our server & he does it in MSQL
Our site is going live in a few days!

We need it now!
Is there an add free forum that works great, with login and username like this one, that we can have either remotly hosted, or host ourselves that will be free & quick to set up??

How about the same for a chat rooms??
cheatpark
March 27th, 2002, 16:08
Originally posted by newbizhelp
Help! Help! Help!

First off.. YES! I have done a search..

Second...Please Help!

Q: We are getting a "members only area" where we will have a forum,& chat (both community & one on one option) where they have to login with a username.

We have linux hosting.. Our programmer says we need Windows Hosting for him to do everything in Access with script serving etc.

Thats crap. You can use linux hosting. In fact linux is better than windows.


He's talking about it taking about 15 days if we switch servers, longer if we keep our server & he does it in MSQL
Our site is going live in a few days!

mssql uses lots of server resources. Use mysql. Its still good and its compatable with most boards. You can use it on linux.


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We need it now!

Calm down. :biggrin2:


Is there an add free forum that works great, with login and username like this one, that we can have either remotly hosted, or host ourselves that will be free & quick to set up??

How about the same for a chat rooms??
Yes the answer is yes for all. :) For the forum you can use phpbb. Their website address is http://phpbb.sourceforge.net/phpBB2 . You will find a download link on them forums. It works very good with linux. You can customize the forums to your liking by editting the files in the template folder. There is no complicated programming in them files. Most is simple html but you may find some php. Don't be scared of it. I'm not sure about chat but you could set up an irc server. However this would cost money. I've never set it up so I'm not sure how but someone else here should know.
Bruce
March 27th, 2002, 18:41
Originally posted by cheatpark

Thats crap. You can use linux hosting. In fact linux is better than windows. If you actually read what you quoted, then you would have noticed that he said programming in [MS] Access, which is not possible with *nix machines.
cheatpark
March 27th, 2002, 19:15
Originally posted by Bruce
If you actually read what you quoted, then you would have noticed that he said programming in [MS] Access, which is not possible with *nix machines.
I know that but mysql is probably better. With using access it means you have to install the program so that the server can read the files which can slow things up. Anyway I was saying he could use mysql as he is on linux. I think mysql is probably already installed on that linux server anyway.