(April 23, 2016 at 9:52 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Please help me select an appropriate online forum hosting service or similar solution.
I serve on my Co-Op board. I think the board would greatly benefit from a private forum space in which to discuss and debate issues related to our building...something similar to AF. I'm thinking the board would be the mods, committees could discuss in restricted areas like area69, and shareholders could bring up matters important to them.
What would you technical minded people advise? Free or paid hosting? Most board members like me are not all that savvy so customer service is important too.
I'm also curious about the ability to have multiple administrators since board membership changes. When a board member resigns etc.
In my experience, free hosting is utter shit. Random downtime, restrictions on various things, unwanted ads inserted into your pages, etc.
For small projects, I use paid shared hosting from ICDSoft. It's ~$6.00/month, maybe more. Linux hosting, I believe it's the full LAMP stack, but they may use Nginx rather than Apache (running PHP scripts is seamless, so you don't really need to worry about it), you can get SSH access if you send in a support ticket after you buy. Good control panel, no hidden upcharges or fees or any shenanigans. I've never experienced any downtime with them, even after hosting several sites with them for almost a decade.
Should more than fit your needs.
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