I currently have a phpbb forum through www.freeforums.org and the forum has outgrown their service. I have a hostgator account set up and I want to transfer all the data over. Anyone know how this can be accomplished? When they are contacted, the only way to change hosting is to go with their recomended company (this is one way they make money). They have a version of phpbb that is basically crippled... so I need some form of workaround. Thank you in advance.
The bind we are in is that freeforums does not give us access to backups so we cant transfer our site ourselves, thats how they make money, and they have a deal with lunarpages for transfering to self hosting... I will talk to them and see if we could buy a backup. The reason we want to self host is because they are fucking control freaks and we want to customize the site much more.
I still have not found a solution. I started looking for a forum scraper a while back, but I cannot figure out which service to use. I taken a look at the info presented here: http://search.cpan.org/~stefant/WWW-phpBB-0.02/lib/WWW/phpBB.pm Has anyone at DP done something similar?