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Madly Diligent
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Not really a question to be solved..but I didn't know where else to put it.

But can anyone suggest some really good quality free AND paid forum software or WEBSITES to use?

PHPBB3 is my favorite..but I need to know some good websites to get it off of for quality work.
 
Well for forum software SMF gets my vote.

As for a webhost speed hosting again gets my vote.

Followed by free hostia and 000webhost
 
If your looking for something easy to manage, free and professional. I would recommend Mybb, because plugins are upload and install through the ACP and the styles are easy to customize or make your own.
 
well i would put in another vote for smf for software

as for a host i can recomend

Code: 
http://www.byethost.com/

i've so far set up 3 forums with this combination, and i could offer help and assistance if needed :great:
 
I would say always go with paid hosting for any software you use. You could start of with maybe free hosting just until your forum takes off but really paid hosting is they way to go. There is alot less restrictions and the speeds and uptime is normally a lot better. Free hosts quite often restrict the use of sending out emails (or severely limit the number of emails), some restrict .htaccess files, some have silly db restrictions like some restrict the number of queries per hour your account can make and some have such silly low phpmyadmin import max file size limits.
 
For paid, definitely IP.Board. It is tons better than vBulletin and has a lot of great features. I have used tons of forum software, and IP.Board is definitely the best.
 
NBK*Twitch said:
For a free forum site,

SMFFORFREE and IPBFREE get my vote.
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I am using SMF For Free as of now and they are seriously easy to work with. Not so much pressure as far as installing mods and stuff because you can do "addons" right in the ACP! It's great. http://www.smfforfree.com Why they have SMF 1, 2, 3, and 4 for subdomains, I don't know. They go something like this

http://www.yourdomain.smfforfree.com (regular SMF Domain)
http://www.yourdomain.smfforfree2.com (second one)
http://www.yourdomain.smfforfree3.com (I used to be SMF For Free 3 at one time. I just thought it looked neat lol)
and finally: http://www.yourdomain.smfforfree4.com

Yeah, I know. I don't know why they feel the need to have 4 subdomains. You would think that one would be more than enough, wouldn't you? But honestly, I love SMF For Free because of it's ease-of-use, everything's done right in the ACP, you don't have to know FTP or anything of that sort. I'd highly recommend this hosting site to anyone who's new to running a forum!
 
SMFforfree is a great host! I really suggest it as everyone else has said. It's really easy to make forums and categories. MOD installs are simple!
 
Try SMF it has some good features and a large community for help. IPB is also a good paid software, tons of features and a good community.
 
vBulletin is a really good forum software, my favorite actually. But the price is high (100 USD for a leased license and 180 USD for and owned license).
 
phpBB's moderation capabilities leave... a great deal to be desired. MyBB is a bit better but its admin interface is tedious.

SMF is probably the most mature of the major software packages at this point, though I'm honestly planning on porting most of my non-SMF sites to Drupal.
 
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