Greetings from Snowy Colorado! I have over a decade of what I refer to as "web engineering" experience. This includes all facets of building websites, high-availability web services, mission critical hosting infrastructure, etc. I have worked with hundreds of different PHP scripts in live production web environments. I currently have a full time job working as a Web Systems Admin but I still perform freelance work as needed.
For you project I am confident I could install the forum for you in under an hour on your server environment. I will ensure that the install is done correctly and securely. I will do this by verifying the settings are correct (recommended PHP memory settings, etc) and best practices are respected.
Do you have a VPS or a physical dedicated server? Or perhaps some other type of hosting account?
Thank you for your time and please let me know if you have questions,
Phil