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[SUMIRE]

I'm looking to set a forum up for a totally different subject to games etc.

I was wondering what the best way of doing this would be. I see there are a number of free forums you can use, but at the expense of pop-ups and adverts, which I don't really want.

Does anyone know of a good cheap solution for a forum. I'm not oppose to paying, but free is even better

Any suggestions would be cool.

Thanks.

[Concept]

You'd get a better response in the PC forum from the tech types.

[marcus]

http://www.phpbb.com/

[SUMIRE]

Ah damn, yeah....now I see the PC Forum.

Cheers

[marcus]

I prefer PHPBB but theres also - http://www.ikonboard.com/

[SUMIRE]

I've just got your standard type webspace you get with any ISP.

This looks like you need a special server.

[VR46]

Easy to set up; with phpbb yeah, nice friendly interface to set up forum subject etc etc, don't need any html knowledge tbh.

[djtickle]

phbb is easy i like it. never used ikonboard thou.

[SUMIRE]

So, can I just upload this to my standard webspace?

[FelixofMars]

I would guess not, but I dont know of any forums that run on standard ISP free webspace.

[SUMIRE]

Yeah looks like i need to buy extra services off my ISP to support SQL etc.

[djtickle]

my isp, uses cpannel that just installs it for you, as i get 2 sql databases in my package.