Episode #99
I’m not a novice computer user, but I am a novice in this regard. I want to start up a vBulletin web forum. In the short term (first 6 months) I expect to have about 200 members, maybe as many as 50 online at one time. Over the first 6 months, I anticipate about 40,000 posts. I am having some difficulty finding reliable information on what type of hosting I need, as well as who some of the best hosts are. I’m in Canada, is there any advantage to having a Canadian host? Will a shared server be enough. I have a million questions, not the least of which is, how difficult or easy is vBulletin to pick up on, will administrating this be a simple thing? Thanks for your time and effort. Cheers.
Linda, Port Coquitlam, BC
That’s not a particularly demanding amount of traffic and nearly any shared hosting setup can handle it. Look for a web host that has VBulletin built-in (using something like the Fantastico installer), that way you know it will work on their setup. It’s might speed things up a bit to have a host who is geographically near the majority of your users, but it really doesn’t matter.
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Air Date: October 31, 2007
TranscriptCaller Questions
- Rodger, Ajax, ON
- Linda, Port Coquitlam, BC
- Denise, Mooretown, ON
Yewell's Jewels
- Electronic Piano 2.5windows
Electronic Piano 2.5 is a Freeware program that allows the user to play Musical Notes, Chords and Drums using the computer keyboard. Although this is not a software for professional purposes, Electronic Piano 2.5 doesn’t require knowledge of the MIDI technology, it takes up little disk space and it is very simple to install and use.
Kate’s Tips
- Image Zoom
By Jason Adams.
Adds zoom functionality for images. Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on individual images within a web page. All this can be done by using the context menu or a combination of mouse buttons and scroll wheel. Handy to see the finer details of smaller pics or to make very large pics fit within your screen. Page Zoom - Zoom all images on a web page with a single command or make all images on a page zoom with the browsers text zoom feature.