Hi;

We are wanting to have a forum, for our .org that will at first mainly be for internal organization discussions. We are getting tired of all the emails flying around. Later, we might want to extend that to our community, and at that time will probably get it hosted someplace, as we are not wanting to admin a large forum.

I have looked at some of the plugins for Wordpress, which we use, and well they seem pretty lacking. I think we have decided for now to separate the two and have something like Vanilla or PHPbb. I was reading about PHPbb a lot last night, and it seems that software is a real pig on resources. It also seems to be a problem for Lunarpages, as I can understand they try to make money on shared resources. So, in the end, I do not want a forum that is slow, and until we have more than 50 people, we are hoping to use the plan we have now. As I said, after we open it to the community, we have no problem paying somebody to deal with it, like Vanilla.com does, for example.

What are peoples thoughts? Taking into consideration we are small, ,<50 users, we are not highly skilled and want some security prevention or less potential for hacks (simpler software), and we want it to work on our Lunarpages system.

We do not see a way to install PHPbb or Vanilla on the VPS servers using cPanel. Are we missing something?

One last idea I proposed to my colleagues was to use a closed group on LinkedIN. Of course I got a lot of groans about our info on their servers, but is it really not the same thing as using any hosted server/SW?

Regards,

Jon