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i too get alot of .ru signups. its annoying!
i also get alot of email from russian spammers, wtf?

anyways, it would be great if someone could make a plugin or modification for more effective (hrmm, mabe i mean more options for...) ban control and also a check on declining .ru addresses from signing up! i would like it to ban the address that signed up with .ru too!

someone make that please! its really need for this spam problem! the other modifications work, but only so much.

you will also need this.
http://www.csslicingguide.com/
well not need it, but you get the idea, it will help a bit.  you then have to use the PUNBB syntax for your CSS, so keep that in mind too!

where is it that it says "powered by punbb" (dont have ftp open atm)... is it in the footer? cause i would like to change it... change it to say the same thing, but in a differnt way, cause that could be annother spam deter method!

i have just a few posts and my database is about 1mb in size.
i think punbb is about 1mb in size - give or take.

so if you are going to have a small forum with very little posts and very little users - cause you would have about 3mb of space left.

i dont see anything wrong with that if you have a small forum. if your main forum gets larger you are SOL.
well you could transfer it to annother server later on if you know how to do that.

hrm, i thought thats what punbb does? its in the admin options if im not mistaken, but give or take a little its about the same as you describe.

man im having a really hard hell of a time using an external css design from www.oswd.org

as far as i can tell i have to edit 3 or more files.
for one you have to edit your main.tpl, and the theme_cs.css (and theme.css)
this is sooo annoying its a pain in the arse cause punbb doesnt use what i would guess is proper css.  mabe it is, but all the themes at www.oswd.org are not the same as punbb's. alot of editing and figuring out.

can someone break it down?

5gigs is HUGE! unless your server doesnt have any space on it left, meaning you filled it up... then it wont work.

but punbb wont take up much.  lets just say that your database will probably be a few megabytes if you get alot of users mabe the megabytes will be in the double digits, but overall the punbb files are small.

do you know how many megabytes are in 1 gigabyte? ALOT!

those links are FTP applications. they will connect you to your webserver to upload and download via the ftp application.

jsut go here and watch the video tutorials
http://punbb.org/docs/video_tutorials/

they should hopefully help!

honestly i dont think you can even make your own mods if you dont even know about this stuff and your new? this is just a weird post. why would you need a forum if you just dont know about it?

www.flashfxp.com <---ftp application
free for 30days well worth paying for...
or try filezilla http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
its compleatly free

mabe this will help...
http://mypunbb.com/
if not check out www.google.com
or
www.webhostingtalk.com

to install punbb you should only have to make a database and upload the files to a webserver.
then run the install files and it sets up the database and you make a config.php file and upload that.

then you can make your mods or download and install other mods.

other than that version 1.3 which no one knows when it will be out nor any possible ETA, you shouldnt have much to worry about - but version 1.3 of punbb will have a new system for mods which looks like it will be alot easier to impliment mods instead of doing what we do now and editing lots of files (mabe i got it wrong).