Re: [cobalt-users] UBB and a RAQ3?

["Steven Werby" <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<cobalt-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:08:08 -0700
>  Kris Dahl wrote:
<snip>
> > well on any platform.  I would try using something like Phorum instead.
</snip>

> Others are better, but so far I run UBB and emumail and MySQL and others
> on RaQ3.

Forgive my [possible] ignorance, but isn't EMUmail a web-based email
program?  Or does it now also function as a message board?  The original
poster asked if UBB runs well on a RaQ2.  True, there are message boards
that can store messages and settings in a MySQL database, but MySQL is not a
message board.  I just wanted to note that so newbie readers aren't misled
or confused.

> I run 381Mb Ram and runs hard but not to bad. would not be good if you try
to
> run multi sites. but 1 is not bad.

That's an odd RAM configuration.  You probably mean 384.  Unless you shaved
some of it down to make it fit in the IU case.  ;-)  It's really hard to
universally say UBB will run well on 1 site, but not many sites.  A few
dozen small UBB messageboards on 20 sites that rarely have messages posted
or read will cause less load on a server than a single UBB with lots of
messages, many messages being read and many messages being posted.

> I am open to sugestions on what could be run in it's place though. I know
> there is a MySQL BBS out there somewhere but I have ot yet had the time to
> find it. It is surposed to be very good. Any Know.

Like Kris Dahl suggested at the top of this email, take a look at Phorum.
http://phorum.org/.  I've installed it, I've used it, I like it.  And my
servers like running it.  I've also researched other PHP-based message
boards including NeoBoard
(http://www.neoqst.com/public/neoboard/neoboard.html) and w-Agora
(http://w-agora.araxe.fr/) but IMO Phorum was *far superior* though that may
have changed if those two have improved since the releases I researched.
One cool feature I recall about w-Agora was the ability to emulate the look
and feel of other message board programs like UBB and [surprise] Phorum.  I
might regret posting this, but many (if not all) of these products can be
found on the PHP site's Project page (http://php.net/projects.php).  I
imagine by pointing you towards this resource we'll be fielding a swarm of
questions about other cool PHP programs, but I had to do it.  And you can
probably find more apps in the future using a bleeding edge tool commonly
referred to as a "search engine".  :-)

Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}