Topic: Help me choose the right way to do this please.

[ohcheap1]

Need to replace my Yahoo!Group due to the most horrific site changes Ive ever experienced. I know I shouldnt complain because its free and we all know you get what you pay for.  Would you suggest any site building software for minimal expense? I dont know if I can handle SMF. Plus, if I use SMF do I have host on my OWN server or is there a server that you pay for? Ive got unlimited upld and server software but yuck., I dont want to commit to that at all. I need members only features and I have 750 members currently that I would want to add at the start up.

Thoughts?

[brickbatz]

I'm assuming that you have a domain name.

I've never done this but I believe I would use SMF on my own server. It would be cheaper in the long run.

You can pay for a web server but it looks pretty expensive to me.

I'm sure someone with more experience will help you here. Guess you could consider this a bump. 

[dweez]

I've never hosted anything on a provider so don't have any experience with that.  And I've never personally ran my own forums/groups so I probably wouldn't be any help to you.

[8ullfrog]

750? Dang.