The popular Forum attached to Wimborne Town FC website has been pulled by the BoD. I was the Administrator and was not advised about this. I have been asked by several former members if a new unofficial forum can be started. I would like advice about how this can be done - bearing in mind I am in my eightyth year and not particularly PC literate. The WTFC Forum was an SMF one hence my enquiry here.
I would like to know such things as cost[ I would hope it might be free], do I need a website and if so how do I go about that, Can I use SMF and how much help would I get. Would anybody be prepared to set it up for me. And so on
Thanks for your help.
What would your requirements be? Most likely (unless you have backups of the old forum) the old forum can't be revived as it was - but a completely new forum should be easy to set up.
How much traffic, ie. how many active users? How active, ie. how many new posts in an arbitrary timeline such a week or a month? Do you have a domain already, or would a new one be needed?
Would you be willing to have the service covered by ads? Or would you prefer to pay some monthly price without ads?
These are all questions that help to determine a suitable host, and the price ratio as well. Options are plenty, some better than others - so knowing what you are really after helps us perhaps help you.