5 May, 2009
Interested to put up your own forum online? Well if so, consider using phpBB.
About phpBB
phpBB is an affordable (and yet professional supported) community forum solution. There are thousands of forums have vBulletin as it fits almost any size of online community. Since its creation in 2000, phpBB has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB 3.0 “Olympus” has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes.
Why setup a forum for your website?
As you might already knew, making your site a hub for information is important to win repeating visitors. Setting up a forum also It’s also a highly effective way of improving your service to customers or users of your website.
phpBB at Bluehost
At Bluehost, you can get phpBB via auto installation at Fantastico and SimpleScripts. The version offered at current time of writing is v3.0.4. Check out print screen below – it’s the phpBB installation page at SimpleScripts.
21 Jun, 2008
“Is it okay to host a forum using shared hosting plan?”
People like to ask me questions when they knew that I’m in web business. The question like above is one of the most that I answered, and the answer is yes.
Do not get scared by the word ‘forum’. Although running a popular forum (imagine massive comment moderation plus spam issues plus user management plus…) can be a pretty tough job for a newbie; starting of a forum on your website, however is very easy.
With the help of Simple Script, installing a forum software at your hosting can be done in no time
Take example of PHPBB installation, all you need to is to click on the icon, key in the details for your forum (like title and admin logins) and the system will creates the database and install the forum software on your server for you. The process is pretty straight forward and direct.
More over, there’re more than just PHPBB to be installed.
You can get PHPBB, BB Press, and PUN BB using Simple Script; get SMF and PHP BB using Fantastico – all these are available when you subscribe to ANY BlueHost hosting plan.
Advantages with hosting forum at BlueHost
The good thing about hosting forum at BlueHost is that the company offers unlimited disk storage and bandwidth transfer on their shared hosting plan. That means you can run your forum without worrying about the traffic surge on your hosting. With just $6.95/mo, you’ll get all the resources you need for hosting a popular forum.
