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phpBB

phpbb or php bulletin board is free internet forums software. It is the most popular open-source PHP forum script available. With phpbb you can create online community where users can talk to each other, create thread, posts, add attachments. User permission system is integrated into core features, acls, bans, captchas, administrators, moderators, categories and many others. Style manager is included, where you can easily change the design of your website. Lots of free themes are available on the net. If you want to extend your standard phpbb forum, you can use mods (modifications). They are separated from core code and are easy to install. There are also lots of free modifications available allowing webmaster to create forum fit for their needs. Hosting requirements for phpBB are PHP and MySQL (although other database systems are supported: oracle, ms sql, posgresql and others), MySQL is the most popular database system and is available on thousands of hosts.

Hostmonster phpBB Review

On hostmonster phpBB should run without any problems, because hostmonster have the LAMP setup (Linux Apache MySQL PHP). Installation can be done manually or via Fantastico one-click installer cPanel tool. I recommend Host Monster as as phpbb host.

Hostmonster Dedicated IP address is available for $30 a year, that is only $2.5 monthly. For example if the IP address is 10.1.1.1 then you will be able to access your site by typing http://10.1.1.1 in your browser. There are several reasons why you should buy dedicated IP address (buying dedi IP is not required in any way). First of all your site will have unique IP address that won’t be shared with any other websites. This is good for SEO (Search Engine Optimization). If you need to have secure connection to your website – https:// (e.g you have online store) then you will need SSL certificate, and to use the SSL certificate on your site you will need dedicated IP address too. Other use can be if you need to have some specific port opened for example if you need it for specific service. To purchase dedicated IP address from Hostmonster login into your cPanel control panel account and click on the Dedicated IP tab at the top of the page. After reading the information about Dedicated IPs, click the button “Order Dedicated IP” to continue to the checkout.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is one of the oldest protocols for exchanging data over the Internet. For FTP a client and FTP server is need so data(files, folders) can be exchanged. It is the most popular way of exchanging files, but not the most secure way. FTPS (FTP Secure) for much better security for data transfer. With FTP you can upload and download files, create folders, delete , and if the client/server supports you can change permissions of files/directories. Popular FTP client is Filezilla (available for Linux, Windows and Mac computers). Modern browser (like Mozilla Firefox) do have FTP support, and you can access FTP servers by adding ftp:// prefix, followed by the server address, user name and password if required in the address bar.

Hostmonster FTP

With Hostmonster you can have unlimited FTP accounts on single account. Multiple connections when transferring files are allowed, for faster upload/download. FTP accounts can be created with cPanel control panel, where you can also setup permissions for the account and quotas (how much transfer can be made, how much storage is allowed and other). There you can also setup anonymous FTP access. If you do not want to use FTP, you can always use the File Manager for uploading/downloadin files.

Ruby on Rails (ROR) is an application framework for the Ruby programming language for creating websites. Uses the Model-View-Controller (MVS) platform for programming. It is less popular than PHP and other web programming languages like Perl, ASP or other, but many popular web sites use Ruby: twitter, whitepages.com, github and others. Rails needs webserver (Apache httpd) and module. Database management systems like MySQL is also supported by Ruby On Rails.

Hostmonster Ruby On Rails

Hostmonster supports ROR on their servers, but you need to configure your account before you can execute Rails application on your hostmonster account. First you need to enable SSH access on your account, setup folders and configure .htaccess to give requests to the ROR parser. It is not hard to setup if you are Rails developer, but for the average user it might be difficult if the user lacks linux knowledge. The complete step-by-step guide can be found here:

http://helpdesk.hostmonster.com/index.php/kb/article/207.