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Good forum hosting?

halkunhalkun Registered User regular
edited October 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
Anyone know good and inexpensive forum hosting. The prices I am seeing are scary cheap ($3). I don't know what the catch is. Anyone have advice?

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  • OricalmOricalm MDRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I've used proboards for a couple different forum groups. Very easy to setup/maintain and has a good variety of security controls. You can pay to get rid of their ads, but I've never really seen a point to it.

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  • The AnonymousThe Anonymous Uh, uh, uhhhhhh... Uh, uh.Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    If you'd prefer to have more control over the forum, you can also get web hosting space (free or paid, though in this case you're likely to get what you pay for) and install a free BBS software like phpBB.

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  • halkunhalkun Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I'm just looking for a quick and dirty forum. No ads will be nice. I had one before that was like 15 bucks but that had a domain with that too.

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  • wmelonwmelon Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I've been pretty happy with Dreamhost. They're cheap and have a one click install for phpBB. They're $8.95 a month and you get a free domain with that.

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  • ransimransim Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I've been using http://www.montecarlohosting.net/

    They are very familiar with SMF and hosting for SMF. I pay like $9.95 a month for my hosting and $10 a year for the domain, though they generally do a promotion for a free domain with hosting. They have a plan thats like $5.95 as well, its just less space.

    The service however is great, they're also incredibly responsive and know how to help if weird errors come up. They also have one click install for quite a few software packages including phpBB or SMF using Fantastico through cPanel.

    But I think what I like most about them is they don't oversell shared hosting like a lot of hosts do, so the site doesn't eventually slow down as they overbook the server.

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