my hubby has a Server.
800 gigs of hard drive space
64 motherboard (that new powerfull one, we have a duel 64, but Tom has that in his comp).
I think were up to 2 gigs of RAM if not, then its still at 1 gig.
We own our cable modem & get Full up & down, something around 700k (dial up is about 64k).

We run an email server, web server & a media server.

I was given a web address & it came with all the goodies, so I honestly cannot help u in getting a fourm. Karen & Paul might be better to ask, casue they prob. have more skills & info on this then I do.

I'm also getting a bit of help from my hubby. Hes taught me some php (VERY little), tells me where the files r so I can change them & tells me what things mean & fixes it when I break it hehehe, & I learned html on my own.

Play with html on an online sime game like Furry Paws. Heres the html website I learned everything from. Its very basic & easy to fallow. well it was for me anyways
html help