I’m looking to start my own message board, but i’m not going to host it myself (56k connection :X ). Now, I am much opposed to an EZboard, since the pop-ups are quite intrusive to the enjoyment of posting, so - does anyone know of any free hosting sites that rise above and beyond the rest of 'em?
Thanks
I’m pretty sure you are not going to find a free board system that doesn’t have popups. I’ve surfed a lot of different ones, and some of them have even worse systems in place for their free service, such as a popup telling you to please turn off your popup killer or you will get their popup on every page, and even the browser-embedded popups that popup killers won’t stop.
Probably the only way you’d get something free without these problems is if you used very little bandwidth on your particular board.
cgi-resources.com has tons of remotely hosted CGI boards, but you have to deal with ads…
I went with turboweb.net comes with a free PHPBB2 forum but it’s not free.
I meant the forum is free, the account is not. But you get 100 megs of space & tons of other things too.
If you’re paying for hosting, check out invision. It’s pretty similar to the forum software in use here. It’s also free.
Hosting isn’t all that expensive. The host we’re using charges $10 a month, and they’re not the cheapest I’ve seen. It’ll cost you an extra $10 or so annually to register a domain name. That doesn’t seem like a lot to spend on a hobby.
Yeah Nym, turbowed had a special for a couple of days, it was $9.98 per year. You could select a PP2BB forum or Nuke.
Allow me to recommend tForum. It’s a PHP-powered message board package with many of the features of vBulletin and other expensive forum board software, but it’s totally free. You’ll need a webhost that supports PHP and MySQL. I’ve set this up for several people and have also done script mods on it.