General Advice

[roughcut]

Hey, I didnt wanna post a link to my forum on here incase it got deleted so I'll keep this as general as possible.

Not long after I start my website 4 years ago I opened a forum. Not really knowing much about them. The problem I have now is my forum address has nothing to do with the website address. Its not an overly active forum. It only has 58 members and only about 3 or 4 are what I would constitute as regulars. I have considering scrapping it and switching to another forum provider but was unsure if this would be good practice....

I would lose my forum threads some of which I would really like to keep. I currently run a static website but am in the midst of having it converted to php so I wouldnt have to go through my whole site and update evry page but just dont know if it was worth changing..

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

 

[CyberFreak]

What is your current host? Alot of hosts allow you to use a top level domain (domain.com) so you could buy a domain that matches your forum and point it to your forum and use the new domain to access your forum (your old one should work aswell). That would be the best way to go in my opinion.

 

[roughcut]

the host is http://www.websitetoolbox.com

I asked them if there was a way to get my forum so that it was just my site followed by forum but they said the best they could do was just add a sub domain so wouldnt be the same...

 

[MrJohn]

So you don't want www.forums.Yourwebsitehere.com?

 

[roughcut]

i dont think they gave me that option to be honest but I'll check.. See even that would be better. It will have to wait until the site design is redone as just now with it being static I'd have to update close to 1000 pages... lol

 

[MrJohn]

That is what I would do is make a sub-domain branch off of your domain that is forums.YOURSITEHERE.com. That way you could have your forums match your site.

 

[roughcut]

yeah, thats prob looks like the best way forward although the software you guys use on these forums look so much better... Website Toolbox seem pretty limited for the actual forum itself...

Thanks for the advice!

 

[MrJohn]

No problem, glad I could help.