Non database based Message Boards?

[Gillbot]

My bro wants to setup a messageboard for a few of his friends but he only has comcast 10MB space for a host. Are there any messageboards that can accomodate something like this? <prefer free>

 

[dighn]

isp webspace? can he run any kind of scripting at all? chances are no. in that case there's no way to get any message board going, database or not.

 

[AFB]

What he said^

 

[Gillbot]

I can run it on my 1and1 free host, it can do scripting but my 1and1 SQL batabase is already in use elsewhere so I need a different approach. <please keep in mind I nor he are programmers and my website was made with paint and notepad so we are web dumb>

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: Gillbot
I can run it on my 1and1 free host, it can do scripting but my 1and1 SQL batabase is already in use elsewhere so I need a different approach. <please keep in mind I nor he are programmers and my website was made with paint and notepad so we are web dumb>

just use that 1and1 host with the same SQL database using prefix ('phpBB_' for instance), and you're good to go.

 

[Bleep]

For 3 bucks a month you can get a good online board without any advertisements look at readybb.com

Bleep

 

[Gillbot]

Originally posted by: saxguy

Originally posted by: Gillbot
I can run it on my 1and1 free host, it can do scripting but my 1and1 SQL batabase is already in use elsewhere so I need a different approach. <please keep in mind I nor he are programmers and my website was made with paint and notepad so we are web dumb>

just use that 1and1 host with the same SQL database using prefix ('phpBB_' for instance), and you're good to go.

You mean more than one board can be run from the same dbase?

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: Gillbot

Originally posted by: saxguy

Originally posted by: Gillbot
I can run it on my 1and1 free host, it can do scripting but my 1and1 SQL batabase is already in use elsewhere so I need a different approach. <please keep in mind I nor he are programmers and my website was made with paint and notepad so we are web dumb>

just use that 1and1 host with the same SQL database using prefix ('phpBB_' for instance), and you're good to go.

You mean more than one board can be run from the same dbase?

We, you can share it and use different tables.

 

[Gillbot]

is there a "how to" so this can be setup for the mildly computer illiterate?

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: Gillbot
is there a "how to" so this can be setup for the mildly computer illiterate?

yes, you can share the MySQL database on 1and1 to be used by more than one program. just install your messageboard program following the instruction (i recommend phpBB), and you are good to go. i'm not 100% sure, but i believe when installing phpBB you can choose for the database to have a prefix (something like 'phpBB_' that i mentioned above) to make it clear (to a human, the program itself really only care about the tables that they are operating).

 

[Beau]

hmm... what would be cool would be a XML based BBS. Wouldn't be hard to create. Would be very simply to style, too.

/me is pondering the popularity of such a BBS.....

 

[Gillbot]

He'd like to run a board off of his comcast space but they don't seem to support asp or php so other than the usual phpbb, etc. I'm not sure what he can run.

 

[drag]

Only 10 megs? And you want to do a message board... sounds like a huge pain.

Why don't you drag some old PC moldering in some closet and install linux on it and setup a webserver yourself? You'd have unlimited amount of space, and the bandwidth is only going to be limited by your own internet connection.

After all that's what most web server people are using. Of course, comcast doesn't, but that might help explain the lack of services their web hosting offers to customers.

 

[torpid]

Wait, they don't support asp or php and you want to run phpbb? I don't follow...

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: torpid
Wait, they don't support asp or php and you want to run phpbb? I don't follow...

no, the phpBB discussion came about after he said that he's got an account at 1and1.com that he can use in terms of space, it's just that he already uses the MySQL database for something else.

 

[Gillbot]

Originally posted by: drag
Only 10 megs? And you want to do a message board... sounds like a huge pain.

Why don't you drag some old PC moldering in some closet and install linux on it and setup a webserver yourself? You'd have unlimited amount of space, and the bandwidth is only going to be limited by your own internet connection.

After all that's what most web server people are using. Of course, comcast doesn't, but that might help explain the lack of services their web hosting offers to customers.

I got him a free mysql dbase elsewhere before I found out you can use the same dbase for more than 1 board.

I'd like to get his board OFF of my account though but all he has is comcast. I've told him to build a small pc to host it on and we'd go from there. I was just wondering if there was something that would run on the comcast space. 10MB will be plenty for ~20 users IMHO.