I think it's easier to use forum hostings than setting up your own because, well, setting up a forum is pretty hard. And at least you save some space

So what do you guys use? I found Forum77 and Forumer (both Invision Power Board), and they seem to be pretty good. Any comments on those two? Or are there better ones?

Or do you prefer to run it on your own?

NO ONE IN THIS WORLD! would offer anything for free. [ charity organisations are exceptions ]. Even this host, wants us to visit the forums, put good information ( for search engine ranking ) and also expects us to Click the banners for all his maintainace stuff and hosting expenses.

FORUMS take a hell lot of BAndwidth and as the Admin stated he has purposely put it on diffrent servers. Well, there has to be a catch. Even though they give forum hosting, I bet they will put their ADS. I rather prefer creating my own. It hardly takes an hour or so. But atleast, you are assured that u have complete control. What if the company closes down suddenly. I have come to this host because he has already Got a diffrent Site altogether and FORUMs are only a part of it. TOO Less chances of this company shutting down.

So it is better setting it up on your own host, huh? It still might be easy though, because sometimes you can just click a link in the cPanel and phpBB or Invision Power Board will instantly install!

Thanks for the info...I probably won't go looking around for free forum hosting anymore then

forum hosting isn't good i think.
you almost cant edit your forum.

Hmm..one click and thats all , its forum installation only ..building up a community is not an easy task , and its a time consuming job . We are here coz we want free webhosting ...if you want to host make a forum , then put smehting real interesting which can vring people in..

yes but the real interesting stuff is already taken

It really depends on what type of forum. If you really have a big community, you better set up your own one cause it safer to have ocmplete control. If you're just having a small forum with your friends or penpals, you can just use free forum hosting.

Forums do take up alot of space especially because of the signatures and avatars. Imposing a size limit would do your bandwidth a great help.

i need free webspace ~~

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i think having a forum is cool!,moveover some of them are free