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[Elwood Jake]

What server did you use to make this website (Ex: proboards, free online websitre forums etc.)

[bbcentral]

Hi Elwood Jake!

Blues Brothers Central is made up of a lot of things, so I'll try breaking it down a little bit

Firstly, the server is hosted by a company called "HostGator". It's a dedicated server and costs me US$174 a month. It's a lot of money, but I host other sites on it too. You probably wouldn't need to spend anywhere near that much on a site, HostGator has some cheaper shared hosting packages starting at $5 a month ($60 a year). If your site grows too big for that, then you could look at switching to a bigger plan.
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The Soul Food Cafe Forum runs on software called vBulletin, which costs about $100 a year to run (although I've just bought a permanent license for $180, then it will only cost $40 a year).
If you're looking for a free forum to run, probably check out PHPBB3 which doesn't cost anything.
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The Chatroom (Bob's Country Bunker) uses software called FlashChat, which costs $5 for a lifetime license.

And finally the main website at Blues Brothers Central :: The Ultimate Blues Brothers Fansite was made by myself, it's completely original work, so unfortunately you won't be able to buy it anywhere else. And it's only designed to be Blues Brothers Central, I couldn't even modify it to be another website

In total, the site costs me around US$2200 a year to run (around $3000 in Australian dollars). That's including the cost of domain registration (about $8 a year). I also pay US$60 a year for DNS Hosting, but that's across all my sites and not specific to this site.

I hope that answers your questions