Hardware and performance

HI Tamara,

You can upload Moodle to your own web server if it can support:

PHP
and you have a
MySQL database account

PostgreSQL can also work.

There are many providers that have these features as default. Some even have Moodle on a Fantastico setup that is quite seamless to set up.

However, if you are going to have heavy usage of your site (mulitmedia presentations, heavy chat, graphics, etc.), you might experience problems as some providers limit the amount of usage you can use. At that point, you might look at other dedicated installation options.

You can follow the instructions to install Moodle here:

http://moodle.org/doc/?frame=install.html

or you can ask away on the Forums here. It would be helpful to let us know about hardware and server programs your provider uses.