Best Free forum host

[Ace]

In your opinion, what is the best forum host?

 

[AquaTeen]

I think you are best off going to a free hosting site and installing a fresh copy of whichever board you plan on using.

 

[Ascent]

I agree with Whaturmuva.

Back when I was a free forum host user though, I always preferred InvisionFree. Not sure how they're doing today though.

 

[Nathan]

There is no "best free forum host" anything with the 2 words included "free host" is absoloutely horrible, and I would suggest moving to a paid host. However if you don't have the funds, do what Whaturmuva has stated and go with a free webhost rather then forum host.

 

[Joshua Farrell]

You know, you people need to learn not to shoot down free remotely hosted forum hosts, just because you don't have 100% access to everything on them.

And to be ON TOPIC, and actually suggest something:

If you like phpbb, I would go with http://www.proforumco.com/

If you want something simple, I would go with http://www.proboards.com/ or http://www.conforums.com/index.html

 

[Cam]

You know, you people need to learn not to shoot down free remotely hosted forum hosts, just because you don't have 100% access to everything on them.

Agreed.

I say ProBoards. I will probably be the only one to say that though. I am bias. :lol:

 

[Nathan]

You know, you people need to learn not to shoot down free remotely hosted forum hosts, just because you don't have 100% access to everything on them.

And to be ON TOPIC, and actually suggest something:

If you like phpbb, I would go with http://www.proforumco.com/

If you want something simple, I would go with http://www.proboards.com/ or http://www.conforums.com/index.html

No actually, free hosted forums are just not worth the time used, even if they are free, of course if you've ran a successful forum before you'd know that 😉

 

[Cam]

No actually, free hosted forums are just not worth the time used, even if they are free, of course if you've ran a successful forum before you'd know that 😉

My ProBoards forum is nearing 50k posts. 😛

 

[Joshua Farrell]

I have ran a forum on a paid host, and my own domain I owned for 5 years, and never was able to get it active, so I can say the same thing about forums that you own yourself.

 

[Nathan]

No actually, free hosted forums are just not worth the time used, even if they are free, of course if you've ran a successful forum before you'd know that 😉

My ProBoards forum is nearing 50k posts. 😛

And you've only had 8 active people online in the last 24 hours :shrug:

I have ran a forum on a paid host, and my own domain I owned for 5 years, and never was able to get it active, so I can say the same thing about forums that you own yourself.

Obviously you didn't market it properly, or didn't want to run the forum and therefore it failed.

 

[Cam]

13 actually. Plus 107 guests.

 

[Nathan]

13 actually. Plus 107 guests.

Wasn't counting guests or staff 😛

 

[Cam]

13 actually. Plus 107 guests.

Wasn't counting guests or staff 😛

You said people.

I hope my staff is people, but who knows... 😛

 

[Nathan]

13 actually. Plus 107 guests.

Wasn't counting guests or staff 😛

You said people.

I hope my staff is people, but who knows... 😛

Haha my bad, that I did, what I mean't was users (so members other than staff) im not trying to dis your forum, just trying to get my point across 🙂

 

[fantanoice]

To stay on topic, I would suggest either Zetaboards or Invisionfree. They both have strong support (it's the same company after all), they're customisable and they're pretty good security-wise as well.

 

[David]

I would say ProPhpBB for a free forum host. Provides a real copy phpBB and can be transfered if you decide to. From memory, there are no ads, but may have changed.

 

[Ashley S]

www.zetaboards.com - It's programmed nice and clean.
There's over 1000 Codes/Modications & Themes.

Also Zeta Boards has been up since 2004, So i doubt they will go down.

I have used them for at least 3 years now. There doing well.
Weekly updates.

 

[fantanoice]

Jcink is also pretty good from what I hear.

 

[Cam]

Jcink is also pretty good from what I hear.

Yes, I have checked that host out as well, pretty nice, but I still love ProBoards. 😛

 

[Maggot]

Froomy and ProPhpBB are both really good for PhpBB.