I' will shortly be getting a much better internet connection and have been thinking about setting up some sort of farming for falangs forum. I was wondering are there any free sofware packages out there? what about hosting ?

I would'nt expect it to be very busy, more a sort of knowlage bank sort of thing. At the moment this forum is one of the only places for falangs to really get any info on the subject, with some excelent articles writen on numerus threads, the only problem is they tend to get lost within the more mainstream posts.

I'm not looking to make it any sort of comercial succsess just a place where the "old timers" with farms or smallholdings can swap information and somewhere where people considering moving "upcountry" and starting some sort of venture can get some practical advice.

One for admin, would it be possible to put a link here (say in my signiture) to it if I decide to follow the idea through, as we would in no way be in compitition with you.

As I've said it's just an idea at the moment but any help would be appreciated.

Cheers RC

http://www.simplemachines.org/

and

http://www.phpbb.com/

Both are open source and free.

If you decide to host with http://www.3ix.org then you can install it straight from your hosting panel saving you a lot of troubles...

I've got multiple websites hosted with them and have no complaints so far...

Cheers,

Monty

Thanks monty, that was quick. I'll take a look.

RC

Have alook at

www.pbwiki.com

this should cater your need and gives zou the option to set up your own user environment.

it is free as well.

They offer a hosting solution pricing is here

http://yellowpages.pbwiki.com/upgrade.php

Heiner