RallyFan
Well-known member
Hi all,
First time poster, and you'll have to excuse me for asking what might be a really dumb question.
Firstly, I'm looking to create a forum from scratch but am on a super tight budget. It won't be that big or popular (if I got 100 members with 20 active I'll be happy). At it's busiest if it takes off I'd project maybe 15,000-20,000 members and 100-150 active members online at a time. If it took off I'd fork out more $$$ for the forum.
After much reading on here throughout the night, I noticed people are saying that it can be run on shared hosting. I'm guessing that's Shared Web Hosting (like most places offer?)
The idea of a self managed VPS worries me, and since I want to host locally in Australia (Sydney to be exact), Shared Web Hosting would be ideal for my budget as well.
I've read RAM and HDD requirements, and having done some web work in the past I know some CSS/PHP and know my way around Wordpress.
Most web hosting companies give you access to cPanel, and within cPanel you can launch Installatron and chose from a number of software packages (normally that how I would install Wordpress), and then access files via cPanel File Manager (thus no need for FTP or anything).
My question is this: How does one actually install Xenforo if they buy it then? If it doesn't show up under Installatron, there is no way from what I can tell to manually install things (as you don't have root access to shared web hosting). Or am I missing something here (keep in mind it's 2AM and my brains flicked off).
I'm looking at something like this:
https://ventraip.com.au/web-hosting/shared/ and taking out the Freedom plan or this https://www.micron21.com/order/customise/#edit/99e781bd-4492-e56b-f1d3-9675bbc2096c
https://www.dreamithost.com.au/web-hosting/#1554955330890-8cac1937-b8da
Thanks for anyones assistance on this one and sorry if it's a really thick question.
Oh and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!
Cheers!
First time poster, and you'll have to excuse me for asking what might be a really dumb question.
Firstly, I'm looking to create a forum from scratch but am on a super tight budget. It won't be that big or popular (if I got 100 members with 20 active I'll be happy). At it's busiest if it takes off I'd project maybe 15,000-20,000 members and 100-150 active members online at a time. If it took off I'd fork out more $$$ for the forum.
After much reading on here throughout the night, I noticed people are saying that it can be run on shared hosting. I'm guessing that's Shared Web Hosting (like most places offer?)
The idea of a self managed VPS worries me, and since I want to host locally in Australia (Sydney to be exact), Shared Web Hosting would be ideal for my budget as well.
I've read RAM and HDD requirements, and having done some web work in the past I know some CSS/PHP and know my way around Wordpress.
Most web hosting companies give you access to cPanel, and within cPanel you can launch Installatron and chose from a number of software packages (normally that how I would install Wordpress), and then access files via cPanel File Manager (thus no need for FTP or anything).
My question is this: How does one actually install Xenforo if they buy it then? If it doesn't show up under Installatron, there is no way from what I can tell to manually install things (as you don't have root access to shared web hosting). Or am I missing something here (keep in mind it's 2AM and my brains flicked off).
I'm looking at something like this:
https://ventraip.com.au/web-hosting/shared/ and taking out the Freedom plan or this https://www.micron21.com/order/customise/#edit/99e781bd-4492-e56b-f1d3-9675bbc2096c
https://www.dreamithost.com.au/web-hosting/#1554955330890-8cac1937-b8da
Thanks for anyones assistance on this one and sorry if it's a really thick question.
Oh and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!
Cheers!
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