Total Costs

[Norco]

<a href="http://www.pwrhost.com" target="_blank">www.pwrhost.com</a>

First year:
$99.00 USD a year - Hosting
$9.99 USD a year - Domain
$169 USD - vB forum

Second year +:
$99.00 USD a year - Hosting
$9.99 USD a year - Domain
$35.00 USD a year - vB

[DJ C Blizzard]

thank you...those were what i was looking for....lol someone told me its 100 dollars a month for hosting

[Ohiosweetheart]

Like someone posted above, depends on where you host your forum.
Hosting can cost anywhere from $1 per month to $100 per month, Noone can give you a set hosting cost. Only you can determine your hosting cost by choosing a host.

[DJ C Blizzard]

for a forum?^^^^ im not ready for a site yet just a forum.....im saying is it true that its 100 dollars for the vbull server?

[da420]

Originally Posted by DJ C Blizzard

for a forum?^^^^ im not ready for a site yet just a forum.....im saying is it true that its 100 dollars for the vbull server?

It all depends on the amount of traffic you expect, and how much server space you need. You also pay for quality. if you are just starting out, and you don't expect it to be an overnight hit or anything you can get by with a pretty good $8 a month shared server package.

[dr. sarf]

Originally Posted by DJ C Blizzard

for a forum?^^^^ im not ready for a site yet just a forum.....im saying is it true that its 100 dollars for the vbull server?

Well you can't really have a forum without a site. Your forum is installed on your website, as it were.
So you buy a domain name, add a hosting package with PHP & MySQL, buy the licence, upload the forum, install and configure it. Job done.
To help you on your grey area of hosting costs, here's my forum server costs for the UK..

Our forum is only small lol with 600 so members, 145 of them are active, monthly bandwidth allowence is 10GB, we use about 4 or 5 and it's ?9.99 a month.

Can get it cheaper elsewhere these days but happy with service and their support response is very fast and helpful, so why uproot everything.

[vcruiser]

Don't fall for all the hosting hype. When starting any type of site, forums included all you need is:

- 50MB memory
- 1000MB bandwidth
- 1 mySql database
- Should cost between $4 & $6 bucks a month
- As your site grows you just upgrade your plan

Two types of hosts out there, other than the good & bad:

- one owns the hosting company, servers and equipment
- the other is a reseller, who leases a space on a server from the company, that owns the equipment
- go for a small reseller that is on the ball and leases their own dedicated server. You will find members on here, that are into resller hosting and forums. Use a small guy, who is dedicated to web communities and the software that runs them.

This way you will be one of a hundred customers, not one of 800,000.

When I setup a site is runs:

- vbulletin
-vbadvance
-vbadvance link directory
-photopost pro
-photopost classifieds
-reviewpost

50MB space & 1000MB bandwith is plenty, then IF you get traffic just upgrade.

Good luck

[DJ C Blizzard]

ok i think i get it now.....

[Nudda]

Originally Posted by DJ C Blizzard

for a forum?^^^^ im not ready for a site yet just a forum.....im saying is it true that its 100 dollars for the vbull server?

No no. There are hosts that cost as little as $1/month, and there are hosts that cost $100/month. It is up to you to choose which host based on what they are offering and what you want out of your website. And hosting for a forum and for a website are the same thing.

Edit: Ah, didnt see this second page. Seems you understand now.

[da420]

Originally Posted by Nudda

there are hosts that cost $100/month..

There are hosts that cost $1,200 a month. It all depends on your set up, and activity level of the site.