Forum Software

Community forums and discussion boards are powered by software that you can install on your hosting account, providing a place where your site visitors can openly discuss any of the topics covered by your site. Community forums have always played a major role with successful websites, helping to add what is referred to as "stickiness", a term that describes an incentive for site visitors to keep returning to your site.

Community forum software typically provides several basic features such as posting comments, voting booths, and managing the discussion threads.

Our hosting solutions currently provide PhpBB and MediaWiki community forum software as one click installations from your hosting account site manager. However, any forum solution can be easily installed through FTP and a web based installation script.

PhpBB - phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable open-source bulletin board package. Since its creation in 2000, phpBB has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution and has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes. Newer users will appreciate phpBB's extensive administration panel, which allows the customization of even the most intricate features without needing programming experience. Because phpBB is released under the GNU General Public License, you can make changes to the code without first having to obtain permission. No other bulletin board software offers a greater complement of features, while maintaining efficiency and ease of use. Best of all, phpBB is completely free.

MediaWiki - MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects. MediaWiki is also available as a one click installation from your hosting account site manager.