Thanks for the tip about mindraven. I like Rick as he did help us out greatly.
I think Rick's wife runs the game over there.
Please PM me with a ballpark fee amount for what you'd charge to move our forum.
Will momentarily.
By "acquiring the license information" for the site do you mean that the current owner of the site would have to transfer the license to me (us)? (As i imagine that he would gladly do if this plan becomes feasible.)
Yes, as UBB.threads is a license based product, you need a valid license to run the software; so either the former owner will need to provide you with their license and its password (they can recover license information
here) or you'll need to purchase a separate license.
I'd like to keep this as cost efficent as possible. But i can have others chip in if need be.
Well, general operating fees for a website are:
- Domain Name (price varies, I offer registrations for $19.99/yr, but I also include dyndns services through enom), other retailers you could get as low as $8 or so (I'd recommend GoDaddy, for domain registrations, but not for anything else).
- Hosting (again, varies; I'm not sure how large your site is offhand, but standard virtual hosting should work in most cases (unless your community is HUGE, in which case you may need a VPS which can raise costs a bit), this is generally paid monthly, but a lot of places give discounts if you prepay for like 3/6/12 months).
- Licensing (here, UBB.threads is $139 for a license (unless the owner grants you the license) and $59 for a year of upgrades).
Not a problem
