First up, let me say that I'm a total newbie when it comes to forums setups and web hosting, however I do have a fair competence in computing in general and can probably follow clear instructions in unknown areas (such as forums setup and webhosting)
I'm almost on the verge of purchasing a vbulletin license. However, there's lots of factors in play before I finally take the jump.
As the costs of vbulletin is a one time cost, I'm almost going to get it. However, right now I'm facing some difficulties in choosing a good value for money webhosting service (which is recurring charges per month).
I would like to, before purchasing a webhost account and wasting my monthly fees while I bungle around trying to setup a forums, hope to setup my forums locally on my HDD in my PC first. Once I get the forums to a nice state and nicely configured, then purchase a webhosting account and then upload the whole jizz up.
Is it possible to run vbulletin locally as mentioned? If so, how does one go about this? I know this "how" question is potentially going to be a huge answer, but once again, I'm a newbie as far as webhosting goes. If you ask me to "install SQL" and "PHP", I won't even know how to do that installation (unless of course its as simple as just clicking setup.exe and setting a folder for it :P)
Hope to get some help here. Thanks!
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