Looking to buy XenForo

[ghostface]

I am looking into buying XenForo.

I am going to buy the XenForo licence. I am going to buy the installation.
What do I need to do?
buy a domain name? what about hosting?

 

[M@rc]

A domain name and hosting, yea.

You don't need to buy the install service. You can install it yourself.

Or you can just buy XF Cloud and a domain name (if you don't want to use one of xenForo's sub domain names)

 

[ghostface]

You don't need to buy the install service. You can install it yourself.

I am disabled. mental disabilities. would not know how to install.

 

[Dragonfruit]

You could just go with the Cloud solution where it's all set up and maintained for you.

 

[ES Dev Team]

If you don't know how to install it, and can't learn, you won't know how to maintain it long term, and you will have a lot of problems as a result of that.

 

[Alvin63]

I am disabled. mental disabilities. would not know how to install.

If it helps paying for the install service, then I would do that. The Cloud version is much more expensive I believe. Once you have it installed and you are the administrator, there is an admin control panel with various settings and you'd need to explore that a bit first and work things out. Mostly though it can pretty much be used out of the box if you keep it simple. But there are things like "permissions" to set for users.

If you find a server you want to use they can also help with installing it, but they won't know how to use the Xenforo software. You can get the domain name bought via the server usually. I would start with the server and domain name.

 

[Suzanne O]

You're better off going with the xf cloud option
Why?
Because the staff here can install it for you and update it for you when there are new updates.