To Summarise:
You have two options-
- 1. Free hosting
- 2. Paid hosting
1. Free hosting
This isn't hard to find, but finding free hosting without tonnes of advertising is. You need free advertising that will run:
* PHP
* MySQL
* 10mb space at least
Once you have this, move on to step 3.
2. Paid Hosting
Also easy to find, you don't have ads etc, but for basic packages with support for things like forums, that's still a lot of money in a year to justify something that might not be what you expect.
Forums are incredibly hard to make self propagating, until you have a large enough user base that likes interacting with itself. The more users, the easier the self propagation
3. Which forum?
www.vbulletin.com Same as BoS
http://invisionfree.com/ Another nice free forum
www.phpbb.com One I'd recommend, very nice to use
You can also find hosting JUST FOR FORUMS at
http://invisionfree.com/. This would save you alot of time, I think.
Other guides?
politik said: