[mdlug-discuss] Where is the forum at?

[Kristoffer Marshall]

Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> Kristoffer Marshall wrote:
>   
>> I'm just wondering, what happened to the forum that was at forum.mdlug.org?
>>     
>
> An enthusiastic member, Merrick, was maintaining the MDLUG forums on a
> separate server, off of his home cable connection. He was doing this on
> his own initiative, we just pointed the domain name at his IP.
>
> Last September he notified me that he was shutting it down because it
> was making funny noises. He made some mention of making a backup
> archive, and I tentatively offered to let him host it on the new web
> server. I have heard nothing since then. In December I removed the link
> from our front page.
>
> As I recall it was getting very little traffic, about 5 or so posts per
> month.
>   
Ah-ha. I see. If I were to host a forum, all I would need to provide is 
a static IP address? I can possibly use my own server I use for my 
"company" if anyone would be interested. phpBB of course, but I don't 
know what version the backend sets up.