Possible to host a forum on Apple Server?

Is there any software to host a forum on my Apple server? Is there any advantage to doing so, or is there a free public forum provider people would recommend for hosting a small (low-traffic) forum for my laboratory?
thanks
Mike

Any of them should work fine as the vast majority are written in PHP.. Just make sure you keep on top of any security updates for issues of that type.. I once had a Linux installation compromised by some bad PHP code that let a hacker in who them installed some sort of robomailer that was reflecting SPAM to other hosts.. Unfortunately, nothing is completely safe.. Up to recently I was running a FreeBSD 8 system and had all externally available services installed within FreeBSD jails (similar to, but better than (IMHO), a chrooted environment)..
Also, before I forget, keep in mind that vBulletin is not free which may or may not influence your decision. I'd like to run it but can't afford the cost of it, so I was running an open source forum s/w (don't recall the name off the top of my head)..
I'm going to have to move all of my stuff from the F8 system over to the Mac soon and will see if I run into any problems -- not anticipating any at this point...

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