Setting up a Forum on a LAN - Intranet
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I think it could work, but your main point is mainly to use something like this for forums for businesses. I don't see how a forum set up on an intranet would really be good for businesses. To be honest, I don't see why you would do this in the first place. Why not just do it on a host?
froggyboy604
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I think installing a forum on an Intranet is good for testing purposes before launching a forum online, but it may just be cheaper to subscribe to web hosting, and register a domain name for a forum. I seen web hosting for $1.99 a month for shared hosting, and you can get a domain name for 0.99 cents or less for the first year during a sale or if you have a savings code.
If you don't have the money, you can always earn money with a forum with ads, affiliate links, paid memberships, or selling stuff like ebooks, and T-shirts on your forum.
Also, if your forum, or website becomes huge like Warrior Forum, Digital Points, you may be able to sell it for a lot of cash, or continue to grow it by selling ads on a forum.
If you don't have the money, you can always earn money with a forum with ads, affiliate links, paid memberships, or selling stuff like ebooks, and T-shirts on your forum.
Also, if your forum, or website becomes huge like Warrior Forum, Digital Points, you may be able to sell it for a lot of cash, or continue to grow it by selling ads on a forum.
Say If it was an employee notice board, where 100% security would be needed, Hence It on a server, or pc with server software.<br /><br />-- 15 Jun 2013, 04:25 --<br /><br />I didnt mean It as hosting In on a local area network connected to the internet, for publim access.
froggyboy604
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In some cases, having a forum on an Intranet can be less secure if an employee or robber/hacker steals the server's hard drive that the forum is on, or somehow backups/steals the databases by copying the hard drive with a hacking tool for Windows. A lot of buisnesses also take very long to update software since a large percentage of companies still use Windows XP instead of using Windows 7 which is more secure.
Look at what happen with the NSA with the whistleblower which revealed PRISM which is a program that spied on almost everyone who uses the top US Search engines and social network in the world.
By hosting a forum on a trustworthy web host, there are full time staff, and security expert which work on updating to the latest version of MySQL, Apache, php, and there are fewer known security issues.
There is https://www.yammer.com/ which claims to be a secure social network for companies.
Look at what happen with the NSA with the whistleblower which revealed PRISM which is a program that spied on almost everyone who uses the top US Search engines and social network in the world.
By hosting a forum on a trustworthy web host, there are full time staff, and security expert which work on updating to the latest version of MySQL, Apache, php, and there are fewer known security issues.
There is https://www.yammer.com/ which claims to be a secure social network for companies.
As you're regarding using a forum board in a business environment between the staff then it does indeed work. It works well in fact.
I've worked in a number of companies that do just this, as they keep replacing and hiring new staff, they also include logins to a forum or something similar (such as moodle) on the LAN so they can catch up on tutorials, protocols, updates, regulations, news and other information.
It's fairly secure do to it being on the LAN or through a VPN that makes it so a user is required to be on the network to access the website, tied together with a custom DNS record makes it a breeze to access also.
With the networks mostly being secured in a number of ways (hidden SSID, WPA keys, MAC filtering) it's pretty hard to gain access to the network unless you compromise a system on the network as well as the login information a user is issued (with something like Novel it makes it almost bulletproof).
I've worked in a number of companies that do just this, as they keep replacing and hiring new staff, they also include logins to a forum or something similar (such as moodle) on the LAN so they can catch up on tutorials, protocols, updates, regulations, news and other information.
It's fairly secure do to it being on the LAN or through a VPN that makes it so a user is required to be on the network to access the website, tied together with a custom DNS record makes it a breeze to access also.
With the networks mostly being secured in a number of ways (hidden SSID, WPA keys, MAC filtering) it's pretty hard to gain access to the network unless you compromise a system on the network as well as the login information a user is issued (with something like Novel it makes it almost bulletproof).
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