Liridon Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Hello! First time trying to configure a server and I have a few questions. *Is this easy to set up for a community? Like tabs and adding other HTML codes from other programs, like intergrate in website. *Will 3GB of internet storage do it? How far will it go til it fills up? *Do I have to code anything in HTML or is everything sorted? Thank you, A noobie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empire Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 You need more then just 3gb. What website are you building? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liridon Posted September 10, 2016 Author Share Posted September 10, 2016 3 minutes ago, Empire said: You need more then just 3gb. What website are you building? A website for a WoW guild. Just something small with a forum section and some widgets on the sides regarding the guild activities. What would you recommend me getting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neejrow Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 5 hours ago, Liridon said: Hello! First time trying to configure a server and I have a few questions. *Is this easy to set up for a community? Like tabs and adding other HTML codes from other programs, like intergrate in website. *Will 3GB of internet storage do it? How far will it go til it fills up? *Do I have to code anything in HTML or is everything sorted? Thank you, A noobie Are you aware that ipsfocus is only a theme provider? You still need to pay for IPboards software from invisionpower.com Also a wow guild might be able to manage on 3gb but I would recommend 10+ for a Web server. If you are willing to learn, a Linux vps can be picked up extremely cheaply to host a Site. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liridon Posted September 11, 2016 Author Share Posted September 11, 2016 50 minutes ago, Neejrow said: Are you aware that ipsfocus is only a theme provider? You still need to pay for IPboards software from invisionpower.com Also a wow guild might be able to manage on 3gb but I would recommend 10+ for a Web server. If you are willing to learn, a Linux vps can be picked up extremely cheaply to host a Site. No good sir I was not. Thank yuo for clearing this for me, as I said I'm all new to this. Thank you for the advice, much appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 The MySQL DB of my forum is nearing 3GB by itself. Then you still have to factor in IPS files and everything... My server has 8TB of hard disk space and 32GB of ram. 3GB sounds like you're on some really tiny shared hosting package. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liridon Posted September 11, 2016 Author Share Posted September 11, 2016 9 hours ago, Koby said: The MySQL DB of my forum is nearing 3GB by itself. Then you still have to factor in IPS files and everything... My server has 8TB of hard disk space and 32GB of ram. 3GB sounds like you're on some really tiny shared hosting package. Yes I believe so. As I said, it's a small guild - all we need is a tiny forum part and a apply section. Maybe a calendar as well. Since I'm all new to this, I don't want to throw in that much money into this yet. I'm trying to learn what options there are out there for us. Do you have any tips? How to get started? I looked at phpBB, it looked enough for what we need but I dont know how to start. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empire Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 6 hours ago, Liridon said: Yes I believe so. As I said, it's a small guild - all we need is a tiny forum part and a apply section. Maybe a calendar as well. Since I'm all new to this, I don't want to throw in that much money into this yet. I'm trying to learn what options there are out there for us. Do you have any tips? How to get started? I looked at phpBB, it looked enough for what we need but I dont know how to start. Thanks Since you are starting so small then move away from your hosting package and look into this https://invisionpower.com/buy Cloud version since they will host it for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neejrow Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 On 11/09/2016 at 1:43 PM, Koby said: The MySQL DB of my forum is nearing 3GB by itself. Then you still have to factor in IPS files and everything... My server has 8TB of hard disk space and 32GB of ram. 3GB sounds like you're on some really tiny shared hosting package. 3GB? How many users does your forum have. My DB is 70mb and we have 600 members and ~30,000 posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 On 9/12/2016 at 3:49 AM, Neejrow said: 3GB? How many users does your forum have. My DB is 70mb and we have 600 members and ~30,000 posts. Getting close to 50,000 users and about 500,000 posts. But there is a lot of other stuff that takes up space, such as PMs for example. There may be some left over stuff too from the various software changes over the last decade. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empire Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 3 hours ago, Koby said: Getting close to 50,000 users and about 500,000 posts. But there is a lot of other stuff that takes up space, such as PMs for example. There may be some left over stuff too from the various software changes over the last decade. I also mentio for some other people that images also takes allot, I mean if you are using an cool theme that has background images. My website has 154 members and I pass the 3gb mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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