I had to buy a license just to be able to make this post
Luckily you're not on IPB so you don't have to renew your license anymore to be able to post (in most sections).I had to buy a license just to be able to make this post
I mean, that's dedication right there!The only way to run a forum unless it has little traffic is on a CentMinMod CentOS7 Server (VPS or Dedicated) in my humble opinion.....
By forum I mean XenForo, vB, Invision or other....
As for difficulty, after running cPanel servers for many years and having various bits fall over with updates, Contacting cPanel with support tickets, CMM is far far easier with less hiccups and the support is far superior, combine that with a decent VPS provider (I use Vultr and Hetzner) with snapshots and automated backups and the ability to clone a server to another, its really the only way... The other thing is the cost of cPanel which has escalated in recent years astronomically when they got taken over...
And by far the best way to run the email server (again in my humble opnion after many years) is to offload this from your forum server and either outsource it (No point me listing them when CMM has a list here ) - My personal choice that I use is Namecheaps PrivateMail paid for facility which works out pretty cheap or run a cPanel server for the emails.
The beauty of a separate server for the emails is is the forum goes down or is taken offline the mail still works and vice versa...
Letsencrypt SSL is a breeze to set up and use on CMM.....
And Nginx is a totally great web server, after coming from 15 years of Apache it was fairly easy to pick up...
I had to buy a license just to be able to make this post
wow, that IS dedication! Much appreciatedI had to buy a license just to be able to make this post
The doubts are within myself and my time/commitment i have these days to learn it and be comfortable running it.
cpanel is easy/autopilot for me these days. yes, it's almost as much as my server. 25 for the server and 20 for the cpanel license a month and it is on my list to do for cost reduction efforts to keep my dying-niche forum alive a little bit longer (eg, profitable).
CMM is not a steep learning curve at all, I would say its easier than cpanel.... Only thing you need to do is run a separate mail server - You can run a mail server on the CMM server and there is info on this on Evas site but its by far easier to outsource it like I said above.The doubts are within myself and my time/commitment i have these days to learn it and be comfortable running it.
cpanel is easy/autopilot for me these days. yes, it's almost as much as my server. 25 for the server and 20 for the cpanel license a month and it is on my list to do for cost reduction efforts to keep my dying-niche forum alive a little bit longer (eg, profitable).
Thanks, that sounds kind of massive.Oracle Cloud also has a free for life tier: https://cloud.oracle.com/free
Somewhat? You can get a 4Core, 24GB Ram ARM Ampere server which works for some things.Thanks, that sounds kind of massive.
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