i know - silly Q - i apologise. I know that there was a way of storing messages, such as forum posts, or guestbook messages, into some database or maybe a huge file which contains all the text etc....


but is this how its done?

wish to create a forum.

design the UI
use SQL Server to store all threads, usernames, etc...
then ASP.NET to retrieve that info, format it and what not etc..

is this how its done?

if so - how much bandwidth (file transfer) does it roughly take? (i know - depends how many entries etc...)


thanks