Best Free Forum Host?

[Venom]

I suppose Whats that network of forums where you use one account to loginto all of them? theres a known minecraft forum hosted?

 

[Ashley]

@Nathan,Id like to use one again. Freeforums use the same host so it has one big community. 🙂

The freeforums.org has a big community, yeah. Doesn't mean they will all join your forum though. But hey, each to their own I guess.

When I first started out, I learned the hard way that it doesn't always cut it to promote your site on your host's support forum, whether they have an advert section or not. It doesn't work that way. In fact, when I've promoted on support forums in the past, I was lucky to even have one or two members come in from that particular quarter. This time around, with my new forum, I promoted it on our host's support forum, but now I know better than to expect members from that area.

 

[GuyS24]

Personally, I think that Jcink Forum Hosting (Jcink.com) is the best.

JFH allows you to take copies of your database whenever you want for free.
JFH has built in (but optionally whether they are enabled) store, arcade, gallery, shoutbox, and more mods. (Plus a bunch more options as seen here that set it apart from other free forum hosts.)

JFH has been around for over 6 years now so they have a fairly long history of providing quality service to users.

If nothing else JFH is definitely worth having a look into.

I host with Jcinks, love the way I can monitor traffic & change macro's and board details

 

[Ashley]

Personally, I think that Jcink Forum Hosting (Jcink.com) is the best.

JFH allows you to take copies of your database whenever you want for free.
JFH has built in (but optionally whether they are enabled) store, arcade, gallery, shoutbox, and more mods. (Plus a bunch more options as seen here that set it apart from other free forum hosts.)

JFH has been around for over 6 years now so they have a fairly long history of providing quality service to users.

If nothing else JFH is definitely worth having a look into.

I host with Jcinks, love the way I can monitor traffic & change macro's and board details

I've used Jcink before, and it was ok. Kind of reminded me of when IPB Free was still around. The ACP and all that were pretty similar, but the functions were at tad different so it took a while to figure out what's what. I wanted a forum on there and it worked good for a while, I dunno, there was just something I didn't like about it towards the end, not sure what it was though...

 

[Pebbles]

proboards
jcink
invisionfree
zeta too i suppose :great:

lately, jcink has been quite popular though
especially among the youth :yes:​

 

[VirusZero]

I wouldn't recommend proboards. Once you start a forum there you can't leave very easily because they don't give you any option to get your data. (They don't provide you with any way to take your database, if I recall right, it was to protect their proprietary database structure... )
Though their V5 is looking interesting, if you intend on leaving proboards at any point... you'd be best never starting with them.

The last time I checked, Zetaboards also doesn't allow users to get copies of the database so you're in pretty much the same situation as proboards.

InvisionFree and Jcink both let you get copies of your database though. InvisionFree will cost you based on how large your database is while Jcink is free.

Brian Fan,
Jcink is a lot like IPBFree (and InvisionFree) because they both use the same software... (Invision Power Board 1.3)
Though I don't know how much I can really say is left of the original IPB 1.3 for Jcink because a lot has been ripped up, rewritten/modified and changed. (I mean like the whole ModCP is more MyBB than IPB and that's only one section that's been changed. )

 

[Ashley]

I wouldn't recommend proboards. Once you start a forum there you can't leave very easily because they don't give you any option to get your data. (They don't provide you with any way to take your database, if I recall right, it was to protect their proprietary database structure... )
Though their V5 is looking interesting, if you intend on leaving proboards at any point... you'd be best never starting with them.

The last time I checked, Zetaboards also doesn't allow users to get copies of the database so you're in pretty much the same situation as proboards.

InvisionFree and Jcink both let you get copies of your database though. InvisionFree will cost you based on how large your database is while Jcink is free.

Brian Fan,
Jcink is a lot like IPBFree (and InvisionFree) because they both use the same software... (Invision Power Board 1.3)
Though I don't know how much I can really say is left of the original IPB 1.3 for Jcink because a lot has been ripped up, rewritten/modified and changed. (I mean like the whole ModCP is more MyBB than IPB and that's only one section that's been changed. )

I think I noticed that when IPBFree got shut down and I tried Jcink. I do remember seeing a fair few similarities.

 

[Chadook]

I would say Icyboards, a fully customizable hosted myBB Forum software, otherwise use Atfreeforum or prophpBB as for phpBB.

 

[Ashley]

I would say Icyboards, a fully customizable hosted myBB Forum software, otherwise use Atfreeforum or prophpBB as for phpBB.

ProphpBB is the one I highly recommend for phpBB fans. They have awesome support staff, and great uptime. In terms of free hosts for phpBB, I wouldn't recommend anybody else, especially in terms of free hosts at that!

 

[Chadook]

You are right with that, the support team are really a supportive & friendly guys.