Web Hosting Forum Setup help needed

[adnan]

Hi all,

Anybody here have experience with web hosting.

I'm setting up a hosting forum.

I gotta real nice name for it.

Were gonna try to make it as professional as possible.

Something like webhostingtalk

I wanna start on this baby now.

Anybody willing to give me some insight would be highly appreciated.

thx

[Meti]

Hello adnan,

May I ask which kind of information you would like to gain? I'm quite experienced in the web hosting field, though I've never managed any webhost forum.

Meti

[Midlandi]

Same questions here.
I have a forum and two hosting companies so I should be able to help a little,depending what you want.

[adnan]

I need somebody to help me set it up.

The right categories, forums, etc.

Don't need any programming, design, coding or scripting help at all.

Just the conceptual part, basically creating the right user experience.

I want something professional like webhostingtalk

What I was thinking is I'll make somebody a mod on it with rights to add forums and stuff.

Basically I'm looking for advice and help on the user level part, or sort of the business model part.

I got a really nice name for like a few month and want to put it to use.

[Midlandi]

What I would do if it was me is look into other Hosting Forums and see what Forum sections they have that attract the most and best posts.
Dont flood the site with masses of forums, start with what you think will fill up quickly and easily first,this way the forum looks active.You dont want loads of sections with zero posts.You can always add forums as the site grows and then move threads is you need to.

I can help a little but I must say my time is pretty limited lately.

[adnan]

You dont want loads of sections with zero posts.

That's some good advice there.

When I started DJ, I flooded that thing with forums with 0 posts.

Also a lot of unneeded forums.

I can help a little but I must say my time is pretty limited lately.

Every contribution helps.

I'm working on 4 sites,

Basically pulling my hair out.

the name is

HostingGossip

what do u think

I got most of the variations & tlds including hyphenations

HostGossip
GossipHosting
WebHostingGossip
WebHostGossip

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It'll be ready within an the next 2 hours.

If u join, I'll set u up with forum admin rights and u can add them as u feel.

take care

[Midlandi]

Ok, let me know and ill help as and when i can.

[adnan]

Great,

Quick question.

Is simple machines better then phpbb3?

What do u think is the best free forum out there

[Midlandi]

SMF I beleive is the best free script, its also easy to migrate to VB when you can afford it.

[adnan]

Daag,

I just uploaded phpbb Olympus.

I guess I'll delete it and go with smf