Hi All,
I have been posting on my association's. phpBB forum for years now. Since going on to the committee I have been looking closely at our website and forum. I now realise that our forum is a stand alone app, and the button on the web front page is a link to it. I understand that in the event we change our website and provider, that our forum could be safely hosted with a provider of our choice without risk to the forum or its contents.
Do I understand this correctly please?
The reason for posting is that the current host has been charging us an astronomic price for what is a small website, mainly populated with pictures, pdfs and links. I can see nothing complex hence my concern at the huge price. So, it is my intention to move the site and forum to a more economical hosting solution, with a view to a complete re-vamp of the website BUT wanting to keep our phpBB (V3.3.11 at the moment) intact.
Question: How difficult is it for someone who is reasonably au fait with things to update a phpBB version please? I understand the need for backing up before changing the version and ensuring the data is kept safe. I just wonder how difficult it is to do.
Please advise and thank you for your patience.
Kind regards
Steve
I have been posting on my association's. phpBB forum for years now. Since going on to the committee I have been looking closely at our website and forum. I now realise that our forum is a stand alone app, and the button on the web front page is a link to it. I understand that in the event we change our website and provider, that our forum could be safely hosted with a provider of our choice without risk to the forum or its contents.
Do I understand this correctly please?
The reason for posting is that the current host has been charging us an astronomic price for what is a small website, mainly populated with pictures, pdfs and links. I can see nothing complex hence my concern at the huge price. So, it is my intention to move the site and forum to a more economical hosting solution, with a view to a complete re-vamp of the website BUT wanting to keep our phpBB (V3.3.11 at the moment) intact.
Question: How difficult is it for someone who is reasonably au fait with things to update a phpBB version please? I understand the need for backing up before changing the version and ensuring the data is kept safe. I just wonder how difficult it is to do.
Please advise and thank you for your patience.
Kind regards
Steve
Statistics: Posted by deeps — Fri Aug 16, 2024 12:01 pm