PumpingIronForums
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I currently use 000webhost, and SMF
Is there a better combination that is FREE?
Is there a better combination that is FREE?
[FREE]Best Host + Forum maker?
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I Strongly Reccomemd You Get:
Hosting: www.x10hosting.com
Ad free, unmetered hosting- no charge.
Mybb or phpbb.
Hosting: www.x10hosting.com
Ad free, unmetered hosting- no charge.
Mybb or phpbb.
PumpingIronForums
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How is the reliability? Forum up always or close to always?
Mybb and phpbb do not have many modifications for it right?
Mybb and phpbb do not have many modifications for it right?
X10hosting's a webhost, and a very good one at that. I've got many sites with them for free, all with 100% uptime. You Get unmetered bandwith, so theres no limits, and Cpannel 3 accelerated.
Phpbb and Mybb are both excellent forum softwares with thousands of mods and themes avaliable.
As I say x10hosting is a webhost, you'll have to install your forum yourself. This easier than it sounds, and is as simple as uploading the files, then installing it Which is just filling out a form.
Hope this helps. 🙂
Phpbb and Mybb are both excellent forum softwares with thousands of mods and themes avaliable.
As I say x10hosting is a webhost, you'll have to install your forum yourself. This easier than it sounds, and is as simple as uploading the files, then installing it Which is just filling out a form.
Hope this helps. 🙂
PumpingIronForums
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How is SMF vs. MyBB or MyPhP?
PumpingIronForums
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What is so good about myphpBB? Is it the modifications, user friendliness, etc?
Well, Thats 2 Different softwares.
There Is Mybb: www.mybb.com
And Phpbb: www.phpbb.com
Both are 'user friendly' and Both have thousands of mods and themes avaliable.
There Is Mybb: www.mybb.com
And Phpbb: www.phpbb.com
Both are 'user friendly' and Both have thousands of mods and themes avaliable.
PumpingIronForums
Familiar Face
Mybb is kind of ugly in theme lol
Thats Just The Deafault theme.
You can Download and Install many other themes.
Take a look at www.awesomestyles.com
You can Download and Install many other themes.
Take a look at www.awesomestyles.com
Here is my recommendation:
If you are looking for free forum hosting. Use IcyBoards which is based on Mybb. I did a review of them quite recently and found them to be awesome: http://lowendhost.org/icyboards-com-free-mybb-hosting/. A lot of people who are new to the webmaster/ forum game use them.
OR: Pay for a cheap host and install Mybb.
Mybb has a good selection of modifications and themes. It isn't that SMF is bad but they have a slower development time and they are perceived to be the worse software which impacts on the number of people joining your forum (people are funny when it comes to joining forums on SMF- some people won't).
If you are looking for free forum hosting. Use IcyBoards which is based on Mybb. I did a review of them quite recently and found them to be awesome: http://lowendhost.org/icyboards-com-free-mybb-hosting/. A lot of people who are new to the webmaster/ forum game use them.
OR: Pay for a cheap host and install Mybb.
Mybb has a good selection of modifications and themes. It isn't that SMF is bad but they have a slower development time and they are perceived to be the worse software which impacts on the number of people joining your forum (people are funny when it comes to joining forums on SMF- some people won't).
I never had very good luck with either X10hosting or 000webhost. They both kept going down for me.
X10 was terrible, since when I used them in 2012 (I was on the Chopin server which had a ton of problems) they went down on Feb 12th 2012, I put a support ticket in on the 14th after it didn't come back up on it's own. On Feb 24th they finally got back to me and told me they reset it manually. On Feb 26th 2012 my site finally came back online. And even then it only stayed up for about 2 days before another outage took it offline again for another few days. (Which I never even bothered to submit a ticket for, I just waited and finally when it came back I downloaded copies of everything I could and left, to 000webhost actually. My site/account on X10 has since been erased and I don't care.)
And I know I'm not the only one who had issues... source
000webhosting wasn't as bad, they worked for the most part with only sporadic downtime (usually only 10 minutes at a shot). But it eventually got to a point where it was spending a lot of time busy. And in times when I was using the site, trying to edit details it would get busy and I'd lose connection just when I tried to submit changes.
Plus a member of my site ended up banned by their firewall or something. (I mean one day he could access the site then the next he couldn't and it just never worked for him after that.) And they couldn't/wouldn't do anything except ask me to pay to go for their paid version to try unblocking him that way.
Yeah... if I'm going to pay for web hosting, I wouldn't choose them. (And I didn't.)
So for me it was just getting to the point where more errors and downtime than I really wanted to put up with.
(I presume you're running into similar situations now?)
I don't really know of any good free webhosts offhand to recommend. But for software, I like MyBB. It's a lot easier than SMF to design for. (Even though it may seem intimidating at first.)
MyBB's mod installation process is pretty easy (most times it's just upload files to the plugin folder, go into ACP and click a link to enable/install that plugin). Unlike phpBB where I've repeatedly heard installing mods is tougher and prone to breaking.
In terms of free forum hosts...
Icyboards is a good second choice, but getting your database from them is a bit costly... (Last I heard it was 20$ for them to export your database for you.)
Instead of IcyBoards, I suggest looking into Jcink Forum Hosting since they have free database backups whenever you want.
X10 was terrible, since when I used them in 2012 (I was on the Chopin server which had a ton of problems) they went down on Feb 12th 2012, I put a support ticket in on the 14th after it didn't come back up on it's own. On Feb 24th they finally got back to me and told me they reset it manually. On Feb 26th 2012 my site finally came back online. And even then it only stayed up for about 2 days before another outage took it offline again for another few days. (Which I never even bothered to submit a ticket for, I just waited and finally when it came back I downloaded copies of everything I could and left, to 000webhost actually. My site/account on X10 has since been erased and I don't care.)
And I know I'm not the only one who had issues... source
000webhosting wasn't as bad, they worked for the most part with only sporadic downtime (usually only 10 minutes at a shot). But it eventually got to a point where it was spending a lot of time busy. And in times when I was using the site, trying to edit details it would get busy and I'd lose connection just when I tried to submit changes.
Plus a member of my site ended up banned by their firewall or something. (I mean one day he could access the site then the next he couldn't and it just never worked for him after that.) And they couldn't/wouldn't do anything except ask me to pay to go for their paid version to try unblocking him that way.
Yeah... if I'm going to pay for web hosting, I wouldn't choose them. (And I didn't.)
So for me it was just getting to the point where more errors and downtime than I really wanted to put up with.
(I presume you're running into similar situations now?)
I don't really know of any good free webhosts offhand to recommend. But for software, I like MyBB. It's a lot easier than SMF to design for. (Even though it may seem intimidating at first.)
MyBB's mod installation process is pretty easy (most times it's just upload files to the plugin folder, go into ACP and click a link to enable/install that plugin). Unlike phpBB where I've repeatedly heard installing mods is tougher and prone to breaking.
In terms of free forum hosts...
Icyboards is a good second choice, but getting your database from them is a bit costly... (Last I heard it was 20$ for them to export your database for you.)
Instead of IcyBoards, I suggest looking into Jcink Forum Hosting since they have free database backups whenever you want.
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