Zinobya Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 This is a nice and comprehensive guide, hope people are paying attention. Excellent, you rock. Also custom themes are dumb luck; either you have a genius in the house or you don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bros Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 This is a nice and comprehensive guide, hope people are paying attention. Excellent, you rock.Also custom themes are dumb luck; either you have a genius in the house or you don't. Well for SMF, you can base a theme off of the default skin using a couple of sites. I know of one that has an SMF theme Generator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinobya Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Even more genius. Do you ever stop? I fully admit my ignorance here. I was blessed in the past with a skinning genius. Figured everyone needed one of those . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeroofTime55 Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Or if you have connections you can get a good free web host that's free free, with no obligations I like my domain name, anyway. Also, I personally very strongly recommend SMF, SMF is amazing software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thierra Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Personal thought: If an alliance bases its quality and success on its forum, then it probably isn't a very good alliance. Side note: GGA uses invisionfree, and I'd say we're doing tolerably, wouldn't you say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeroofTime55 Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 More like Invisionfail Of course, I'll bash anything that isn't SMF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheyCallMeJeezy Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Listen to this man. He knows what he's talking about. I echo this statement nice guide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Verteidiger Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 SMF is nice. I set it up for my friend's comic site. I recommend it as well. You can download and install packages (plugins, themes, etc) easily, it's quite nice. I currently have Netfirms as my webhost. 250GB disk space and 2000GB of bandwidth for 10 dollars a month (sometimes with specials, even lower!). I have went over 1500GB and I didn't hit a "cap". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denial Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Charlottez Web (Despite the name I have heard it is excellent)GC Solutions Both quality hosts. Nice guide, bros. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphosis Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 A good summary. SMF was what I used for another one of our clans, and the only thing about it I really preferred compared to Invision was how insanely easy skins were to install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sithis Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Bros, you're awesome. This should be pinned somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphosis Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Oh, and masking was pretty easy as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementual Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 (edited) Bros kicks $@!. About time this got writ'. Edited August 7, 2008 by Dementual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scalare Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 We use PHPBB and we're quite satisfied with it . It's incredibly customizable and easy to use. With PHPBB there's no need to ever switch to a paid forum unless you have forums which have a tremendous amount of visitors per day/posts per hour. By the way, I expected something else here . I was kinda hoping for advice on who to mask, how to setup your admin rights and how to prevent the wrong people from gaining access, what are good masking systems/forum setups etc . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEraser Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 whats a forum Having used pretty much all of the different types of forms listed above, i personally prefer IP boards, but as has been states smf is quality for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uaciaut Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Good op, would read again. Also Academic subforum worthy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archon Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 bros knows his ****. Listen to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetanothername Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Good op, would read again.Also Academic subforum worthy? I'd say so. I've both IF, IP.Board, phpBB and SMF. I'd rank them in this order: IP.Board > SMF > phpBB > IF And on the note of overselling, I havn't had that problem with Dreamhost. I have a friend who runs a popular IP.Board setup over there and they havn't bothered him at all. (He upgraded to their VPS' recently, so that might be what the problem is.) And note: Please for the love of admin/god stay away from any host that does cPanel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstep Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Do remember every hosting company that makes money oversells to some extent, its simply stupid not to The question is whether the price is reasonable enough that the hosting company can have a scalable solution so that they can quickly upgrade their servers when they start to get closer to using their full resources This works because 90% of shared hosting users use under 10% of the hosting specifications they are given Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJ Scott Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Great guide. I've been converted from IPB to SMF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bros Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Personal thought: If an alliance bases its quality and success on its forum, then it probably isn't a very good alliance.Side note: GGA uses invisionfree, and I'd say we're doing tolerably, wouldn't you say You need to have a sweet place to hang out for the alliance to thrive. If you HQ is boring, why bother checking it out every day? That's why some alliances have an arcade. You guys use invisionfree because bilrow won't convert SMF is nice. I set it up for my friend's comic site. I recommend it as well. You can download and install packages (plugins, themes, etc) easily, it's quite nice.I currently have Netfirms as my webhost. 250GB disk space and 2000GB of bandwidth for 10 dollars a month (sometimes with specials, even lower!). I have went over 1500GB and I didn't hit a "cap". Netfirms is another overseller I forgot. Haha. We use PHPBB and we're quite satisfied with it . It's incredibly customizable and easy to use.With PHPBB there's no need to ever switch to a paid forum unless you have forums which have a tremendous amount of visitors per day/posts per hour. By the way, I expected something else here . I was kinda hoping for advice on who to mask, how to setup your admin rights and how to prevent the wrong people from gaining access, what are good masking systems/forum setups etc . Everyone has their tastes among the free forum systems. I prefer SMF, but I have heard phpbb is excellent. I can make a little guide later on how to mask and stuff for SMF, and a general security guide. whats a forum Having used pretty much all of the different types of forms listed above, i personally prefer IP boards, but as has been states smf is quality for free. Ya. Good op, would read again.Also Academic subforum worthy? Do people even read that forum? bros knows his ****. Listen to him. <3 I'd say so.I've both IF, IP.Board, phpBB and SMF. I'd rank them in this order: IP.Board > SMF > phpBB > IF And on the note of overselling, I havn't had that problem with Dreamhost. I have a friend who runs a popular IP.Board setup over there and they havn't bothered him at all. (He upgraded to their VPS' recently, so that might be what the problem is.) And note: Please for the love of admin/god stay away from any host that does cPanel. That sounds good. Dreamhost oversells. I believe when ES had an account there, they didn't notice when he ran a shoutcast server on their shared hosting I echo that sentiment. STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM ANYTHING THAT DOESN'T HAVE cPanel. And I think I will add another part of the guide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetanothername Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 ...snip...I echo that sentiment. STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM ANYTHING THAT DOESN'T HAVE cPanel. And I think I will add another part of the guide. I think you misread what I said. What I said was. STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM ANYTHING THAT HAS cPanel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoskia Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Bros is a real genius... ! He made a cute forum for the NpO! And we have Arcade!!!!! Having said such thing, I have no clue about what he's talking about here.... ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ephriam Grey Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 good read. Now, about those that are SMF theme dumb, who should they goto to make a custom theme? Ephie works for low rates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobalt Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 (edited) you should throw invisionfree on there - if you know your way around a CSS stylesheet its quite easy to skin - check out: http://z11.invisionfree.com/ordorecolitus/index.php? for a prime example. edit: I see this has already been suggested... check the link anyways Edited August 7, 2008 by Tungsten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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