How bout not use so much ASCII in the clan name? It makes it stupid hard for people to search google to find us.

Also maybe ditch this free forum bs and get a web domain?

I'll agree with you about the ASCII; it does make it rather difficult for things to work smoothly. I'll talk with Moo about that. As to the web-domain, I don't have access to a server, nor do I have the money to prop one up. Donations (as if we'll ever get any) are certainly welcome, but the clan is so small that I'd think we'd either need to be ub3r l337 (tourny's coming up! ), have about 4x the amount of people we currently have, or have a generous soul willing to forward the money/host a server for us.

Well you wouldnt need to spend a ton of cash on it.

-A router (if you have broadband, with only 1 PC you can use this to run multiple PCs on 1 broadband connection)
-A Spare PC with maybe at least 15-20gb HDD
-An OS (Linux or Windows, which are free...cough..)
-A web server (Apache (linux and windows) or IIS (windows only, its on all flavors of windows starting at windows 2000, i prefer the one on windows server 2003, but xp professional also has its own version)
-A SQL server (MySQL is the best choice even tho I hate its initial install/configuration method)
-PHP
-And lastly, know-how/ideas for designing the webpage, or if its a forums only deal, some sort of portal system, PHP-Nuke, Geeklog, etc..or just forum software, phpBB or other.

All of this is free, except if you have to buy the spare PC, and bandwidth, which really isnt that much, since you can always throttle down the bandwidth, easily done in IIS, dont know how in Apache.

This does not require alot of money.

For the domain part of it, you can get that for free or a small price. On GoDaddy.com, they offer www.igclan.info for less than a dollar a year. The .com is like 3k, some retarded domain hijacking company owns that. This will I think secure us into the Google search dbase too i believe.

OR, you can get a free domain, via dynamic dns www.dyndns.org. You can get igclan.ath.cx or somethnig along those lines.

Also once this is configured, you can just throw it into a corner, with nothing but power and a network cord plugged into it. You can log into it remotely with VNC.

I can help set some of this up, but if you want my help I recommend Windows, mainly because a) I hate apache, b) i hate working with linux, and c) i prefer windows environment and IIS is way better in my opinion.

I have tonnes of server space, as I mentioned in my application

Here, here! I'll look into it. I don't, myself, have a router or a spare computer (though neither of those should be a problem), and it's been forever since I've looked at PHP or even HTML for that matter, but if you insist, I'll try to poke something out. I might need to have a "sit-down" with one or both of you, though, as I'm prolly going to be half-assing this.

I mean its only an idea, I definately say fuck the ASCII clan name (the tag is ok). You can keep using these free forums. Just ideas i thought would benefit making us more public on the net.

Star, what kind of free webspace do you have?

I have a reseller account.
In other words I sell web space but I don't sell much because I am to lazy to find people so generally I just use it for myself and give it away free.

Apachy, php 4&5, mysql, postgresql, blah blah blah, lots of other stuff.
Plus I can set pretty much anything thats needed for a site. I don't have any domains I'm not using, but I have one I can set up a sub domain on for the clan.

I could have a forum up within 30 min if someone gave me a go ahead. since this is phpbb, if there is an export feature available we could even keep all existing posts.

Don't start it up quite yet (though if you're feeling rather inclined, you could have a go at if, iff'n you wanted); I'm rather timid, at the moment. Lemme mull it over, check for an "export feature", and consult.

GUYS STOPT ALKING HERE TYPE TO ME LOL im cool with all that website thing but il need u guys to contac me bout it