Free Forum Hosting?

[Footzilla]

Well, can you guys tell me which is better, invision free or forumotion.

If you know about anyother free forum hoster better than these two then please tell me. Dont tell about ipbfree cuz it doesnt open in qatar

If anyone who can host for me for free, please tell:smirk:

[Spyros]

Forumotion offers phpBB 2 and 3, while Invision Free offers the free version of invision power board (it's 1.3 if I recall correctly). You just have to make sure which software you prefer. Both providers are good and they won't dissapoint you easily.

My suggestion: go with phpBB 3. It's new and full of nice features, while IPB 1.3 is outdated.

[yatz]

For me, i would advice you to go with ZetaBoards.. The new release of InvisionFree , its a custom software which is really good

[chi2kuad]

Hello, i'm newbe
Thanks for share this site
Good luck with it!
Thanks

[upineter]

For me for free forum CMS the best is SMF (Simple Machine Forum), It is free and there are lots of plugin that able to added for the forums. You can download it on www.simplemachines.org

[shadow12345]

I agree with Spyros, IPB 1.3 is now pretty outdated and may not be able to provide you with enough features so you should go with phpBB 3 instead :smile2: But since you are about to have your own forum up, why not try starting by finding a free host and then install the forum yourself ?
That way you will have complete control of the board and can modify it the way you want :popeye:

[Spyros]

Most free hosts, while they provide some respectable webspace, put serious restrictions on your databases. For example, they may limit the maximum size of any database to 10 MB, while they still offer a generous 500 MB for free.

I would not recommend starting a forum with a free hosting plan.

[shadow12345]

Most free hosts, while they provide some respectable webspace, put serious restrictions on your databases. For example, they may limit the maximum size of any database to 10 MB, while they still offer a generous 500 MB for free.

I would not recommend starting a forum with a free hosting plan.

Yup, it sure is getting harder and harder these days to find a 'real' free host. Most of the hosts I have found put ADs on the hosted sites, or restrict certain features until you upgrade to paid plans,etc... which are extremely annoying :sad:

However, there are still some good free hosts that have been online for a few years and still doing strong. I believe we can learn a lot more stuffs if we try to install everything by ourselves. Of course, free forum hosts are good ideas if you don't know about webhosting, designing,etc... and want to learn first.
But to really get started building busy forums, I believe free hosting is better choice

[yusticia]

Like Spyros say, to start forums you should not use free forum hosting. I recomend you to use paid hosting with free scripts of forums of PHPBB or simple machine forums.

[MarKTwen]

I don't think that real free hopst can exist.