Recommend a free forum to add to my site...
 

hey everyone,

could you recommend a free forum that does its own hosting so that I can connect to it via my website, for my club and its students?

I have never done anything like this before.

ik

Re: Recommend a free forum to add to my site...
 

Hi Ik,

Checkout my site (see sig) - full CMS system!

Drop me a PM if you have questions!

Re: Recommend a free forum to add to my site...
 

You don't need it to do it's own hosting - try phpbb.com Install it on a sub-domain/domain and let it do it's thing.

Vbulletin is better but costs money :)

:)

Re: Recommend a free forum to add to my site...
 

ok ok,

I have my site hosted on NTL/VM. I dont think they allow forums, am I right?

ik

Re: Recommend a free forum to add to my site...
 

Re: Recommend a free forum to add to my site...
 

I liked the look of nabble

http://www.nabble.com/

but that isn't a recommendation, I haven't tried it ;)

Re: Recommend a free forum to add to my site...
 

www.suddenlaunch.com i have it as a back up site for my forum, have a look, if you want ad free you pay a fee.

HTH

Re: Recommend a free forum to add to my site...
 

Correct. They only support basic HTML and not PHP like what most forum software is written in. Plus, the forum software requires access to a MySQL database for storing all the posts etc.

Re: Recommend a free forum to add to my site...
 

You could always host a server from home on your VM connection and do it that way :) I have for years now and never had an issue :)

Re: Recommend a free forum to add to my site...
 

that requires the computer to be on for long long times.

ik

Re: Recommend a free forum to add to my site...
 

Thats OK :) I have 2 pc's on 24/7. Have done for 2 years now. 50p a day in electricity for us, but could be lower for you depending on the company/tariff.

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I should be able to give you some space and bandwidth to get you started with a forum if you want IK

However I'm unable to guarantee uptime so there may be periods when your site could become unavailable.

You can see my uptime history below.
http://host-tracker.com/website-upti...s/183830/lvuc/

Re: Recommend a free forum to add to my site...
 

Sorry IK I didn;t know it was hosted in you VM space.

Have you thought about getting some space somewhere else? It's not that expensive and would allow you to host your own stuff :)

Sorry if someone has already aked this :) :)

Re: Recommend a free forum to add to my site...
 

http://www.freeforums.org/ - no need to host it on VM's servers either

Re: Recommend a free forum to add to my site...
 

I do want webspace I just can't afford it right now.

ik

---------- Post added at 17:24 ---------- Previous post was at 17:23 ----------

I eventually found this and am currently giving this a try, but I think I will eventually buy webspace to get a better hosted board,

ik