UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming Web Hosting whats required on the server end to host UBB?

within a few months, i hope to start up my own site hosting company (lotsa great stuff for a low, low price! nudge nudge! )

anyway, im still doing all the research now on everything.

so, a question:

what is required on my end (the server / host company) in order to offer my users the ability to have their own UBBs?

do i have to install perl or something? use a specific server software?

Of course you'll need Perl installed! If it were me, I'd go with Apache on Unix/Linux, and give them Plesk control panels.

and php

It's not anything you have to install, but don't charge set up fees. I hate those darn things.

~Jon

hopefully, if things continued as planned, we'll be able to offer lotsa nice stuff for not so much money

15-20 gb transfer
500+ mb storage

for about (or under) 10 bucks / month

no set up fee

If you manage to get this off the ground, let me know and i'll be more then willing to try my site on one of your accounts! Sounds great!

I do hope you'll be able to include php and mysql aswell as perl

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Originally posted by drkknght:
hopefully, if things continued as planned, we'll be able to offer lotsa nice stuff for not so much money

15-20 gb transfer
500+ mb storage

for about (or under) 10 bucks / month

no set up fee

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Ooh, you've grabbed my attention. Would you have any idea how much the transfer of a domain name and the yearly cost of a domain name would be?

~Jon

wuhoo! clients!

at this point, all of the final details have yet to be worked out, so i cant really give you anything but vague answers

above and beyond that, networking isnt my specialty, so i might not even be able to give you correct vague answers! -- not to worry, tho, the individuals im partnering with have nearly 10 years of networking mastery.

tho, i think its safe to assume that, in addition to the above 'vague' specs, we will be able to provide most anything on a relative level that our competitors do (including php, frontpage extentions, ftp access, lotsa emails, etc).

look for us to debut (hopefully) in a few short months (ill keep y'posted!).

Do keep us posted. Oh, and I just got some subdomains set up. To have that would be wonderful, too.

~Jon